I think that it's making a judgment call on life in a coma. Otherwise, why would it be a Catholic subject?
Because it's a beautiful, endearing story of marital love despite exceptional difficulty? Persistence through hardship? Love that reaches beyond the boundaries of what society considers reasonable action? There could be a thousand reasons why this appears in any newspaper, let alone a Catholic one. That fact that you rush to judge it, despite its benignity, is peculiar to the extreme.
They're giving a reason not to unplug people. That whole Terry Schiavo thing.
Patently untrue. Catholic moral theology in this area does not require extraordinary efforts to keep someone alive. If someone is in a coma, and there is a reasonable degree of medical certainty that they will not recover, a Catholic commits no sin by agreeing to end the life of that person. The difference between this story and the Terry Schiavo case is that Schiavo was not in a coma, but rather in a persistent vegetative state. Because a person in PVS has a wakefulness (though not necessarily an awareness) there is an ethical gray area over whether or not to keep them alive. There is no such gray area with a coma.
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