The Lion of Munster

Bishop VanGalen has been beatified by B16...

What, you never heard of him?

You didn't know that a Catholic bishop openly opposed Hitler?


Bishop Who Denounced Hitler Is BeatifiedOct 09 1:18 PM US/Eastern Email this story

By FRANCES D'EMILIOAssociated Press Writer
VATICAN CITY
A German bishop known as the "Lion of Muenster" for his courageous anti-Nazi sermons during World War II took a step on the road to sainthood when he was beatified Sunday in St. Peter's Basilica....Von Galen, who joins the Church's list of the "blessed" through his beatification, dedicated himself to "defending the rights of God, of the church, of man, which the national socialist (Nazi) regime violated in a grave and systematic way, in the name of an aberrant, neo-pagan ideology," Benedict said.

Ah, but we modern perfect people would never have eliminated useless eaters, would we?

David Brooks notes that Kass' report insists we need to acknowledge we are dependent on others...

And my post to Peter Singer's triumphant proclamation of a brave new world of euthanasia and eugenic elmination of non persons shows that we need modern VonGalens to remind us:

No, it is not for such reasons that these unfortunate patients must die but rather because, in the opinion of some department, on the testimony of some commission, they have become 'worthless life' because according to this testimony they are 'unproductive national comrades.' The argument goes: they can no longer produce commodities, they are like an old machine that no longer works, they are like an old horse which has become incurably lame, they are like a cow which no longer gives milk.
What does one do with such an old machine? It is thrown on the scrap heap. What does one do with a lame horse, with such an unproductive cow?

...No, we are dealing with human beings, our fellow human beings, our brothers and sisters. With poor people, sick people, if you like unproductive people.
But have they for that reason forfeited the right to life?
Have you, have I the right to live only so long as we are productive, so long as we are recognized by others as productive?
If you establish and apply the principle that you can kill 'unproductive' fellow human beings then woe betide us all when we become old and frail!...

Ah, but of course, the "modern" version will be peddled under the idea of "choice"...and the only answer to that is the cross...