End of Life Issues

23 06, 2026

End of Life Care: What is NOT Required.
End of Life Care: What is NOT Required.

End of Life Care: What is NOT Required.

By Father David Nix|2026-06-22T16:45:37+00:00June 23rd, 2026|Theology|

p/c American Nurse Journal. What does the Catholic Church teach about DNRs and Ventilators? I have had an article go viral recently on the topic of bioethics. Many in the pro-death world were shocked by my words and tried to counter me. Such people were easy to disprove because I sourced secular links into my articles, showing what even non-Christian surgeons were admitting about euthanasia. On the other hand, some people in the pro-life world misunderstood the difference between ordinary care (required by the Catholic Church) and extraordinary care (not always required by the Catholic Church because it's often disproportionate to what can be accomplished.) Their over-reaction in going even [...]

9 10, 2025

Where Mercy Meets Justice On the Gallows.
Where Mercy Meets Justice On the Gallows.

Where Mercy Meets Justice On the Gallows.

By Father David Nix|2025-10-06T17:42:12+00:00October 9th, 2025|Theology|

When I was a student attending a liberal Jesuit high school, I was very much against the death penalty. I even wrote letters for Amnesty International (before they had taken their pro-abortion stance) with my friends in Denver cafes at night, while other guys were out partying. Back in the early 1990s when I was in high school, I also knew of the book Dead Man Walking about an anti-death penalty sister who spent time on death row named Sr. Helen Prejean. Fast forward to the late 1990s where I am studying theology at Boston College, the second most prestigious Catholic University on the East Coast (second only to Georgetown.) [...]

22 07, 2025

Euthanasia in Canada: A True Story.
Euthanasia in Canada: A True Story.

Euthanasia in Canada: A True Story.

By Father David Nix|2025-07-21T13:02:09+00:00July 22nd, 2025|Theology|

Recently, the Pillar reported: "Nine years ago, the Canadian government legalized a Medical Assistance in Dying program, making physician assisted suicide widely accessible across Canada for those who qualified for the program. To date, roughly 75,000 people have died from MAiD, including many Catholics." Now, I don't really like the current medical definitions for active euthanasia vs. passive euthanasia, but here's the basics of the vocabulary that weak bioethicists throw around today: Active euthanasia involves deliberately causing a patient's death, while passive euthanasia involves withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment, allowing the patient to die naturally. The problem with their definition is that both are murder, which is why I don't [...]

9 09, 2024

End of Life Catholic Bioethics
End of Life Catholic Bioethics

End of Life Catholic Bioethics

By Father David Nix|2024-09-11T22:53:43+00:00September 9th, 2024|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

What is required in good Catholic bioethics regarding end of life decisions? 1) Heretical “Pontifical Academy for Life’s” errors summarized at "New Daily Compass": https://newdailycompass.com/en/vatican-pavs-latest-publication-condones-euthanasia-and-assisted-suicide 2) Avoiding euthanasia with true and traditional Catholic bioethics: https://www.padreperegrino.org/2024/08/paleuthansia/ 3) Palliative care and its deceptive cover: https://clmagazine.org/topic/end-of-life/palliative-care-the-new-stealth-euthanasia/ 4) Why to say “no” to organ donation: Mine: https://www.padreperegrino.org/2019/04/no-organ-donation/ USA Today: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2019/05/02/organ-donation-physician-assisted-suicide-death-disability-column/3628448002/ 6) Durable power of attorney and living will documents for your family: https://www.padreperegrino.org/2023/03/dpa/

13 08, 2024

The “Pontifical Academy for Life” Now Allows Euthanasia?
The “Pontifical Academy for Life” Now Allows Euthanasia?

The “Pontifical Academy for Life” Now Allows Euthanasia?

By Father David Nix|2024-08-31T03:32:28+00:00August 13th, 2024|Theology|

Photo Credit at top: "Pontifical Academy for Life." A new article at Crux is titled Vatican loosens stance on food, water for patients in vegetative state. It reports on the "Pontifical Academy for Life" which just released an 80 page pamphlet in Italian nearly eliminating past parameters on end-of-life issues. Shockingly, even the USCCB admits that pamphlet contains "an evolution of church teaching" on end-of-life issues. If by "evolution" we mean a moral descent beneath how pagans know how to treat their elders, then that is accurate. Now, according to Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the "Pontifical Academy for Life," (all three words being false by this point) their [...]

23 03, 2020

Catholic Clinicians Speak On COVID-19
Catholic Clinicians Speak On COVID-19

Catholic Clinicians Speak On COVID-19

By Father David Nix|2020-03-23T07:03:14+00:00March 23rd, 2020|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

On tonight's podcast, I am joined by a nurse working in an ICU treating many coronavirus patients and a physician elsewhere who probably has coronavirus himself. We put into layman's terms COVID-19's common symptoms and treatments. Dr. Matt mentions the dashboard map of Johns Hopkins University.