It is no surprise whatsoever to read that a couple of the pontiff's appointees to the "Pontifical Academy for Life" [sic] are proposing assisted suicide as an alternative to euthanasia in Italy.
Splitting the difference with the dying West--and then splitting it again and again, ad infinitum--is one of those things that "starting processes" is about.
Launched by the Jesuit Pravda and then followed-up in Le Monde, it could have been nothing other than a trial balloon from the narcissists running the show.
Fortunately, the secular folks on Italy's highest court said that a euthanasia referendum was not possible at all, making Jesuit casuistry on behalf of death moot. It should also not be a surprise at this point that Italian lawyers have more regard for human life than Jesuit Central.
Except, of course, that it isn't moot: Rome is largely occupied by the heterodox-to-heretical and the clubbable. And, given the blinkered Vatican I notion of papal supremacy, enshrined in dogma and canon law, there's precisely squat you can do about it.
Paul VI talked about the smoke of Satan getting into the Church. Now it is starting to billow out from the inside. And the men who have spent generations building the furnace are working on proof-of-concept.
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