Reply to the Jesuit Consortium *

Consortium of Jesuit Bioethics Programs, “Undue Burden? The Vatican and Artificial Nutrition and Hydration,” Commonweal 136.3 (February 13, 2009).

U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, 4th ed. (Washington, D.C.: USCCB, 2001); and John Paul II, Address to the participants in the international congress on “Life-Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State: Scientific Advances and Ethical Dilemmas” (March 20, 2004)

USCCB, Ethical and Religious Directives, n. 58.

USCCB, Ethical and Religious Directives, n. 57.

Paul John II “Life-Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State,” n. 6.

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Declaration on Euthanasia (May 5, 1980), IV.

Pontifical Council Cor Unum, Questions of Ethics regarding the Fatally Ill and the Dying (June 27, 1981), http://www.academiavita.org/template.jsp?sez=DocumentiMagistero&pag=pontifci_consigli/mal_mor/mal_mor&lang=english.

Paul John II Address to students in the international course on human preleukemia (November 15, 1995), n. 5, in AAS 78 (1995): 361.

Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers, Charter for Health Care Workers (Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1995), n. 120.

Paul John II Address to the bishops of the Episcopal Conference of the United States of America (California, Nevada, and Hawaii) (October 2, 1998), n. 4.

Paul John II “Life-Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State,” n. 3.

Paul John II “Life-Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State,”, n. 4.

Paul John II “Life-Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State,”, nn. 2 and 5.