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Eluana Englaro has died peacefully.

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | news report author Monday February 09, 2009 20:01author by iosaf Report this post to the editors

Berlusconi & Ratzinger euthanasia audacity fails.

Eluana Englaro has died peacefully this evening

Tomorrow Italy's progressives and secularists will demonstrate against Berlusoni's unconstitutional decree attempting to ensure a woman who was in a coma since 1992 continues in that vegetative state.

In Berlusconi's words :- "She is alive enough to get pregnant". Leaving one only to wonder who would have fathered her child and what would have been the morailty of such an act.

However, the 11th president of the Italian Republic Goirgio Napolitano refused to sign Berlusconi's decree deeming it to be unconstitional. A petition started by Umberto Eco and Dario Foy amongst others has now collected over 1000 signatures.
after 17 years she has surely had her purgatory and walked her calvary?
after 17 years she has surely had her purgatory and walked her calvary?

The extraordinary and highly polemical affair resulted after the Vatican put pressure on the Italian government to stop the family of Eluana Englaro, the 37-year old, who was in a persistent vegetative state since 1992 after a road accident aged 20, from removing her feeding tubes in a private clinic. Article 2278 of the Roman Catholic catechism forbids the withdrawl of life support. Since that article was created modern medicine has advanced to the stage of indefinite continuation of a persistent vegetative state. The church of christ who never taught whether it was morally acceptable to put people on life support systems prefers to place her amongst the perpetually undead amongst such luminaries as Ariel Sharon..,

Below is a picture of the Italian president Goirgio Napolitano http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Napolitano taken in 1975 when as leader of the Italian Communist party he was both excommunicated and in mortal sin a state which all members of his party were placed by the wartime pope Pius XII. The pope who knew about the Holocaust but didn't want to say anything upsetting. The pope who Ratzinger wants to canonise.

In his homily at vernacular mass yesterday Ratzinger obliquely referred to Eluana's case asking the faithful be they Italian or Latin speakers to keep those "in the most mysterious states of suffering in their prayers " ...... obviously as long as they can use the bits of brain that do praying.......

alas, modern medicine has not yet satisfactorily speculated a theory on which parts of your brain do prayer.

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constantly updating news from the Italian communist newspaper "Unita" on Eluana's right to die.

Related Link: http://www.unita.it/news/81329/ciao_eluana

the 11th president of the Italian Republic in mortal sin in 1975 has the moral strength to say NO! to Berlusconi & Ratzinger
the 11th president of the Italian Republic in mortal sin in 1975 has the moral strength to say NO! to Berlusconi & Ratzinger

She is reported as having died peacefully. RIP. the church wants you to pray for the communists who did that.
She is reported as having died peacefully. RIP. the church wants you to pray for the communists who did that.

author by babychampublication date Wed May 06, 2009 18:54author address author phone Report this post to the editors

That's because he controls almost all the Italian media and had the RC church in his back pocket thanks to the Eluana case (As outlined above).

But then things changed. - The RC church issued a stinging front page rebuke which also incidently reflected their far right conception of leadership and democracy, Berlusconi for them obviously doesn't reflect the morality of the nation or its soul as Franco in his time served the ideals of Opus Dei. Old Franco only ever got to oggle Eva Peron with his eyes hanging out beneath the disproving gaze of his wife Carmen Polo, (but she shared the bedroom if not the bed and nothing ever improper came to pass) , poor old Franco the "catholic leader for a catholic nation" didn't get to proposing frottage or soliciting Peron's hypothetical daughter in return for political patronage and favour.

But now poor auld estranged mrs B really is coming up mrs Trumps with the news that she will use the services of Eluana Englaro's lawyer in the forthcoming divorce proceedings, which to the chagrin of Mr B, he never removed from the statute books just like the RC church asked him.

all throughout the land of Italy, there are pretty young women, who though never raped may now see reason to voice their disquiet over past discomforts in the presence of a truly powerful man.

author by iosafpublication date Wed Sep 02, 2009 11:59author address author phone Report this post to the editors

According to today's Italian "Repubblica" and additional coverage from today's Spanish "El Pais", the Vatican's congregation of the faith a department better known by its historical name The Inquisition has drawn up a list of 41 priests who signed or expressed support for the dignified death of Eluana Englaro. They are facing excommunication with its usual downsides :

* Not only the loss of their power to sanctify communion wafers but their place as Roman Catholics at the rail to take the eucharist. Even if they sneaked into a church or chapel and did partake of it, in their mouths it would nought more than bread.

* Not only will they lose their power to give the last rites or viaticum to the dying but they themselves will no longer be candidates for such preparation for the grave and won't even be allowed a burial in hallowed ground or a modern cremation complete with blessed urn.

* They will be scorned upon by all good catholics ranging from the Italian prime-minister to the most humble African child born with AIDS & no catholic will commit a sin of either venial or mortal nature if they set their dogs upon them or give them a clout across the back of the head with a blunt instrument.

* They will lose their jobs complete with regulation clothing, car and housing allowance & have to find work in some other sector.

This hardly even happens to the priests who abuse, molest and vilify the innocence of children.

Here are the names of this monstrous priests & prelates who saw no incompatability between their faith in a merciful God and the teaching of the Christ who never told us when to take people off life support machines perhaps for the good reason he had never said it was ok to put people on life support machines :-

don Paolo Farinella (Genova),
don Vitaliano della Sala (Sant’Angelo a Scala, Avellino),
çdon Enzo Mazzi (Firenze),
don Raffaele Garofalo (Pacentro, l’Aquila),
padre Fausto Marinetti (Sinigaglia, Ancona),
don Andrea Tanda (Oristano),
don Ferdinando Sudati (Paullo, Milano),
don Adolfo Percelsi (La Loggia, Torino),
don Giovanni Marco Gerbaldo (Modena),
don Pierantonio Monteccucco (Voghera),
don Chino Piraccini (Cesena),
don Marcello Marbetta (Albano Laziale, Roma),
padre Tiziano Donini (Trento),
don Aldo Antonelli (Antrosano, l’Aquila),
don Roberto Fiorini (Mantova),
don Luigi Consonni (Pioltello, Milano),
don Angelo Cassano (Bari),
don Renzo Fanfani (Firenze),
don Nicola De Blasio (Benevento),
don Goffredo Crema (Cremona),
don Guglielmo Sanucci (Roma),
dom Giovanni Franzoni (Roma),
padre Benito Maria Fusco (Bologna),
padre Pierangelo Marchi (Caserta),
don Paolo Tornambè (Avezzano, l’Aquila),
don Carlo Sansonetti (Attigliano, Terni),
don Franco Brescia (Napoli),
don Carlo Carlevaris (Torino),
padre Nino Fasullo (Palermo),
don Andrea Gallo (Genova),
don Angelo Bertucci (Rovereto),
don Alessandro Santoro (Firenze),
don Franco Barbero (Pinerolo),
don Giorgio De Capitani (S. Ambrogio in Monte di Rovagnate, Lecco)
don Francesco Capponi (Itaberai, stato di Goias, Brasile),
don Alessandro Raccagni (Bergamo),
don Salvatore Corso (Trapani)
don Riccardo Betto (Vigodarzere, Padova),
don Albino Bizzotto (Padova),
don Sandro Artioli (Sesto San Giovanni),
padre Gino Barsella (Roma).



sources Italian http://temi.repubblica.it/micromega-online/sul-fine-vit...cura/
Spanish http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/Vaticano/invest...8/Tes
http://temi.repubblica.it/micromega-online/33-preti-per...vita/

this is the letter they signed on the 23rd of March 2009 : http://temi.repubblica.it/micromega-online/33-preti-per...vita/

even though according to Berlusconi she was alive enough to have babies, nobody harvested her ovaries.
even though according to Berlusconi she was alive enough to have babies, nobody harvested her ovaries.

author by iosafpublication date Tue Feb 09, 2010 23:35author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Tonight Beppino Englaro the father of Eluana who died with dignity this day last year spoke out against Berlusconi's shameless comments this morning which beside expressing is regret that neither he nor the Vatican could stop the death are in fact more poignant as being the first time he has spoken of regret or remorse *for anything* especially and not least in this last year.

the polemic continues.

links to Unita & Repubblica in Italian

Berlusconi expresses regret & remorse :
http://unita.it/news/italia/94821/berlusconi_su_eluana_...e_cos

Eluana's father replies :-
http://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2010/02/09/news/replic...8519/

author by Vegophilepublication date Wed Feb 10, 2010 07:38author address author phone Report this post to the editors

"In Berlusconi's words :- "She is alive enough to get pregnant". Leaving one only to wonder who would have fathered her child and what would have been the morailty of such an act."

It just shows you exactly what unpious sick way berlusconi was probably thinking about her!

 
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