The Vatican opens for the first time to “spaces for legislative mediation” on the subject of end-of-life. This can be read in the Piccolo Lessico Del Fine Vita, a book published by Libreria Editrice Vaticana which collects “a series of explanatory and in-depth entries, conceptually rigorous and scientifically updated”.
Today, Thursday 8 August, the document was delivered to Pope Francis by the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Monsignor Vincenzo Paglia.
In the introduction to the volume, Monsignor Paglia himself, recalling the declaration Infinite Dignityexplains that it “is placed on an eminently doctrinal level”: “We can also note how the document does not elaborate an overall reflection on the relationship between ethics and the juridical sphere”, notes the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life. “Therefore, there remains open space for the search for mediations on the legislative level, according to the traditional principle of ‘imperfect laws’, in a pluralistic and democratic society, in which believers are also called to participate in the search for the common good that the law intends to promote”.
Regarding the crucial issue of the end of life and the problem of assisted suicide, one of the central passages of the book underlines: “In the Italian situation, it cannot be ignored that the ruling of the Constitutional Court urges Parliament to fill the legislative gap identified in this area, moreover in a cultural context that pushes, in Western countries, towards a drift towards euthanasia”.
And here is the most important passage: “In this context – we read – failing to contribute to the search for a point of convergence between different opinions risks, on the one hand, leading to a more permissive outcome and, on the other, fueling the push to avoid the task of participating in the maturation of a shared ethos”.
“Helping to identify an acceptable point of mediation between different positions is a way to promote a consolidation of social cohesion and a broader assumption of responsibility towards those common points that have been achieved together”, we read further in the volume.
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