Monday, March 28, 2005

Is Fr. Bouchard a heterodox dissident vis-à-vis Terri Schiavo?

The short answer is YES! The longer answer is that his heterdoxy is not limited to this subject.
Why would the influential president of a Catholic Dominican theological institute recently teach moral theology that is markedly different than that of Pope John Paul II and the Catholic Church?

Father Charles E. Bouchard, O.P., president, and associate professor of moral theology at Dominican's Aquinas Institute of Theology, St. Louis, Mo. said today:

"Is it possible that the removal of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube is euthanasia? Yes, but it is more likely that it is the legitimate withdrawal of a medical intervention that no longer serves her spiritual or medical good."[1]

Contrary to Fr. Bouchard's deviating and unorthodox theology on this important matter, the Vatican this week has for the fourth time specifically spoken out against the withdrawal of Terri's palliative and ordinary care which is her 'nutrition and hydration,' and called such removal a "murderous act of Euthanasia."

Is Fr. Bouchard feeding his young impressionable students heterodox dissent on a daily basis? Let us see what else he has to say on this matter:
Barbara Kralis has Bouchard's number alright...One might ask, how is it possible that he still dispenses his poisons here?

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