Tip-Toeing Around The Elephant In The Living Room With Regard To Margo Naranjo's Situation

Below is a video of Bishop Strickland and John-Henry Westen discussing the Margo Naranjo matter.  At last we hear a bishop broaching this topic. While this interview is good in many respects, I believe these gentlemen are allowing an inferior concept of "love and compassion" to dissuade them from discussing a crucial aspect. That aspect is the danger of hell and eternal damnation, with which those parents flirted when they planned to murder their daughter. It is false compassion not to broach that stark reality, one with eternal consequences. 

Can we say for certain that they would go to hell? Of course not. But by the same token we cannot presume that they wouldn't go there, especially when what they contemplated (and may still be planning) is a mortal sin.  Many commentators seem to be falling all over themselves to avoid discussion about sin in this situation.  In reality, they don't serve any good purpose by doing so.

Hopeful Update On The Margo Naranjo Situation

LifeSiteNews has informed us that St. Ann Catholic Church in Coppell Texas cancelled the planned funeral for Margo once they learned that she is not actually dying yet.  Whoever called the church to make that arrangement indicated that Margo was in her final stages of life - in other words, they lied to the parish employees.

A priest contacted her parents to offer support, and to make clear that the Church condemns the withholding of nutrition and hydration as a form of euthanasia.  The parents' guardianship of Margo has been suspended and a court order was issued to prevent the cessation of the food and hydration.  It is unknown whether or not the parents will still attempt the murder of their daughter.

Please keep praying for this situation.  Texas Catholics, please stay alert to this situation.

Attention Texas Catholics! Your Action Needed NOW To Save Margo Naranjo

Who is this poor woman?  She is a young lady who suffered brain damage in 2020 as a result of an auto accident.  Her parents, citing no improvement in her condition, plan to withdraw her feeding tube, depriving her of the basic care of nutrition and hydration.  Like Terri Schiavo of several decades ago, she will be murdered in a most brutal way by her own family.

LifeSiteNews has a more detailed account.  The parents have even scheduled and planned a funeral in early August, to be followed by a "celebration of life".  The Church in which this celebration of murder will happen is St. Ann Catholic Church in Coppell, TX.  This is in the Diocese of Dallas.  

LifeSiteNews is urging us to contact this bishop, "respectfully voicing our concerns".  If by that, they mean that we should assume some overly soft-spoken demeanor, I respectfully disagree.  The time for such meely-mouth, "oh please pretty please" groveling is long gone.  A person is being murdered, and a Catholic Church is scheduled to be used to condone the mortal sin of murder.  I looked at the Dallas diocese website just now, and see not even one mention of Margo's name.  Had we been talking of some serial killer about to face capital punishment, you can rest assured that this diocese would be front and center of protests, prayer vigils, you name it, to stop the execution.  Does not this innocent woman deserve at least that much?

The silence of the clergy in the face of this impending murder is its own deadly sin.  What is the duty of the laity here?  Well, "rebuke the sinner" is a Spiritual Work of Mercy.  In this context, the sinners would be the silent clergy, alongside the murderous parents.

Those of us in other states can offer our prayers, and indeed cause the phone lines of the diocese to melt and their email boxes to clog.  Those Catholics in the Dallas area and in outlaying places can and should do more, with boots literally on the ground.  May I suggest that this August 2nd "funeral" be picketed?  Let's face it; the parents will be mourning, but they will be crying crocodile tears as they will have been the primary agents behind Margo's death.  

They should be shamed.  Perhaps that shame will lead to repentance.  Hopefully they will repent while there is still time to save Margo's life.