2023-09-24 01:51:51
The presentation of this bill had been postponed so as not to irritate him, but he did not miss the opportunity to speak on the subject. “We do not play with life,” Pope Francis warned on Saturday upon returning from his visit to Marseille, shortly before the examination of a controversial bill in France which could authorize “active assistance in dying”.
“We don’t play with life!” We do not play with life, neither at the beginning nor at the end,” the sovereign pontiff repeated during a press conference on the plane taking him back to Rome. Jorge Bergoglio spoke late this morning with French President Emmanuel Macron for the fourth time in six years, their first meeting outside the Vatican.
Asked about the subject, the pope replied: “Today we did not talk about this theme. But we talked about it last time (in October 2022 at the Vatican).”
Already a first comment in the morning
“I spoke clearly (…): I gave my opinion. With life, we don’t play. Neither at the beginning nor at the end,” the pope said. “Today, let us be attentive to ideological colonizations which (…) go against human life.” “Otherwise, it will end with this policy of no pain, of humanist euthanasia,” he warned.
According to Emmanuel Macron’s entourage, the two men did discuss the subject on Saturday, but the president stuck to the “calendar” and the “methodology” of a text expected “in the coming weeks”. It was theoretically supposed to be presented before the pope’s arrival, but was postponed.
This text, which could go so far as to include “active assistance in dying”, would open a new right only to adults, suffering from an incurable illness and with a “medium-term” vital prognosis. In his speech on Saturday morning, the sovereign pontiff refuted the “falsely dignified perspective of a sweet death, in reality saltier than the waters of the sea”.
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