That Blair woman again

Now it looks as if she is getting herself onto the Pontifical Council for Sciences, obviously people don't know her as we do, have a look at what Joanna Bogle has to say, look at Fr Tim Finnigan

The Telegraph reports her saying

"I have an enduring soft spot for the Virgin Mary"....
She added: "I passionately believe there is no more important role in life than motherhood. I admire her self-sacrifice, her ability to accept God's will and her trust in Him."
However, Mrs Blair admits she has doubts about the Church's position on the role of women, and says she chose to study law to annoy the nuns at the convent where she was educated.

Church of England Embraces the Culture of Death

THE Church of England has joined one of Britain’s royal medical colleges in calling for legal euthanasia of seriously disabled newborn babies.
Church leaders want doctors to be given the right to withhold treatment from seriously disabled newborn babies in exceptional circumstances.

Their call, overriding the presumption that life should be preserved at any cost, follows that of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology, revealed in The Sunday Times last week.
The church’s position was laid out in a submission to an independent inquiry, due to publish its report this week, into the ethical concerns surrounding the treatment of severely premature babies.
In the submission Tom Butler, Bishop of Southwark, states: “It may in some circumstances be right to choose to withhold or withdraw treatment, knowing it will possibly, probably, or even certainly result in death.” The church’s submission does not say which medical conditions might justify the decision to allow babies to die. It argues that there are “strong proportionate reasons” for “overriding the presupposition that life should be maintained”.
It says it would support the withdrawal of treatment only if all reasonable alternatives had been considered, “so that the possible lethal act would only be performed with manifest reluctance”.

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I find the CofE's moral stance increasingly alarming, this seems to go beyond what we as Catholics would find acceptable: that we should not officiously seek to keep alive person whose medical condition would enevitable end in death. The idea that a doctor should become a killer fills me with horror.

On Life issues we seem to have nothing in common with men like Butler, despite his attempts to play at celebrating Catholic style liturgy, every public statement identifies him as one of the leaders of liberalism within Anglicanism, a true son of "Old Mother Damnable".

Since posting this piece there have been several claims that Butler actually meant that, we not seek to officiously keep alive a child who was likely to die, however he does talk about, the "withdrawal of treatment". All that he has said seems to play into the hands of euthanasiaists. I would love to be convinced that the initial press reaction was mistaken.