EUTHANASIA IS MURDER
"No man shall murder--and it is murder, My children, when he shall give the excuse of saying an individual is no longer living or a part of the world because he has become emaciated, because he lives only with prayers and the help of all scientific means. The Eternal Father has placed a soul in that body. That body is the temple of the Holy Spirit! No man can know when that soul must return to the Eternal Father. No man shall hasten its exit from a body by murder! Euthanasia is murder! Shall you become a judge over the living and the dead?”
– The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, June 5, 1976
MURDER OF THE ELDERLY
"I know this makes you affrighted, My child, that there is so little value for life, but did not I tell you many years ago that if they started to murder the unborn, they will murder the living, even the adults. They may murder the children, but then they will also murder the elderly.”
– The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, November 1, 1985
The above Messages from Our Lady were given to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, New York.
Sister Philip Marie Wanted to Live. But a Catholic Senior Center Killed Her...
LifeNews.com reported on November 13, 2024:
By Bobby Schindler
Watching the video of Sister Philip Marie Burle will bring you to tears. It was taken just days before her heartbreaking death.
Sister Philip Marie, a Catholic nun, was begging to leave Mount Carmel Senior Living in St. Charles, Missouri, a Catholic facility she had been entrusted to for care and support. Instead, her caretakers intentionally ended her life, going against her wishes. They withdrew her food and water and administered heavy sedation, having decided it was time for her to die.
Sister Philip Marie Burle, C.P.P.S., breathed her last breath on April 4, 2022.
Sister Deirdre “Dede” Byrne—a religious sister, physician, and retired U.S. Army Colonel—was so outraged by the gross injustice of her dear friend’s death that she felt compelled to expose Mount Carmel for what they had done to Sister Philip Marie.
Scheduled for release on November 16, 2024, the documentary No Mercy – the Catholic Culture of Death will feature an hour-long biopic unmasking the dark side of Catholic healthcare and how the staff of Mount Carmel imposed death on this helpless nun, under the guidance of a behind-the-scenes hospital physician who killed Sister Philip Marie without any hesitation or regret.
Sister Philip Marie was cognizant and not terminally ill; according to Sister Dede, she could have lived another two years or more had she been given proper care, and would most likely be alive today had it not been for the staff of the Mount Carmel Senior Living facility.
Mount Carmel was established in 1919 by Mother Mary Theresa of St. Joseph, founder of the Carmelite Sisters of The Divine Heart of Jesus. The Mount Carmel website reads that their success is rooted in the “principles established by the Sisters all those years ago, to nurture and care for patients and residents like we are caring for our own family members.”
Tragically, what happened to Sister Philip Marie comes as no surprise. After my family witnessed the tortuous death of my sister, Terri Schiavo, almost 20 years ago, we established the non-profit Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network to serve as patient advocates.
For nearly two decades, we have received thousands of calls from individuals who described how callous, authoritarian caretakers had routinely deprived families of their right to decide what was appropriate treatment for their loved ones. Too many of these calls come from Catholic-operated facilities where patients are subjected to the same denial and withdrawal of care as was witnessed in the case of Sister Philip Marie.
Just like Terri’s bishop, Robert N. Lynch of the Diocese of St. Petersburg who stood by in silence and refused to protect my sister from those thirsting to end her life, Archbishop Mitchell Thomas Rozanski of the Archdiocese of St. Louis made no effort to defend the life of Sister Philip Marie from her death-fixated caretakers.
After the 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision led to tens of millions of unborn babies being killed, our nation has witnessed a steady decay in the understanding that life is a sacred gift, made in our Lord’s Divine image and likeness.
Unsurprisingly, this way of thinking has spilled over into today’s U.S. healthcare system, which has been infiltrated by the same godless healthcare workers who do not share traditional Judeo-Christian values, and arrogantly assume the power to choose who lives and who dies.
With over 6,000 hospitals (not including nursing homes and hospices) and more than 34 million patients admitted yearly in the United States, there is reason for alarm. Nearly every U.S. State—46 at present—allows hospitals or health providers to unilaterally refuse lifesaving or life-sustaining medical treatment.
In a 2008 New York Times article entitled “Terminal Options for the Irreversibly Ill,” Judith Schwarz—an R.N. and clinical coordinator for Compassion & Choices of N.Y.—openly stated that over one million people die each year in American hospitals as “a consequence of someone’s decision to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment.”
Dr. Neil Wenger, a U.C.L.A. professor of primary care medicine and head of the University and Hospital’s ethics center, explains what happens when patients or families protest “futile” denials of treatment: “If there is no resolution, then we have a policy where you can override a family.”
But there is some good news. In 2009, Jere Palazzolo—president of Catholic Healthcare International (CHI)—signed a formal collaboration agreement with Padre Pio’s hospital in Italy, the Vatican-owned Casa Sollievo Della Sofferenza (or the “Home for the Relief of Suffering”) to replicate Padre Pio’s faithful Catholic healthcare delivery in the United States.
This May, CHI agreed to purchase the Trinity Health Livingston Hospital – a 140,000-square-foot hospital situated in Howell, Michigan, a small rural town. The project is slated to house a medical school, embryo orphanage, outpatient and rehabilitative services, birthing unit, family medicine practice, and the Terri Schiavo Home for the Brain Injured, in honor of my sister.
Palazzolo explains, “Because it limited some of their business opportunities, many systems forfeited their Catholic identity or ignored the Church. This is across the country. There are few truly Catholic systems in our country.”
Especially exciting, and a key pillar to the initiative, will be the medical school that will forge physicians into faithful Catholic professionals—despite our increasingly secular society—in the charism of St. Padre Pio, obeying the Magisterium of the Catholic Church and bringing a continuum of care from conception to natural death.
Dr. George Mychaskiw, President of the proposed medical school, stated that medical education has “degenerated to teaching our current political agenda rather than the truth and science”, opining that today’s healthcare is “more reminiscent of Germany in 1942 than what health care should be in 2024.”
“This medical school will armor physicians with the faith and truth to stand with their patients, protecting the lives and dignity of the most vulnerable.” The St. Padre Pio Medical Center is scheduled to open in mid-2026, noted Mychaskiw.
March 2025 will mark the 20th anniversary of Terri’s unjust death – a death through severe dehydration that was so brutal I’m unable to properly describe it using words. It would be heartrending enough if what happened to my sister was an isolated case.
However, as in the case of Sister Philip Marie and countless others, such instances occur every day in our country, with no effort to stop it, and in many cases, hastening death is encouraged. Indeed, it was not long ago when the thought of deliberately dehydrating a medically vulnerable person to death would have been unimaginable and totally criminal.
Today, it is a common practice not only among medical professionals and healthcare facilities—including Catholic ones— but also among society at large, which has been infected by a virus rooted in nihilism rather than a biblical worldview and the Truth of Jesus Christ.
While a St. Padre Pio-style medical school will be indispensable and a tremendous blessing, it will take time before it impacts the healthcare community and alters how we treat our medically weak. Until this happens, you can count on more tragic stories like those of Terri and Sister Philip Marie. It is time we speak up and protect the medically vulnerable.
“Then He will answer them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me’.”
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"In these days, My children, the signs of the times come fast upon you. There will be no charity of heart; selfishness shall abound. There will be little light of piety. Morality--the word shall not be accepted. Sin has become a way of life.”
– The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, June 12, 1976
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