Rev. Augustine DiNoia, a Dominican priest and a member of the Province of St. Joseph, is the Undersecretary for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Recently, he spoke with Vatican Radio about the recent clarification made by the Congregation on the morality of providing artificial nutrition and hydration to patients in a “permanent vegetative state”. A clip from that interview is available from the Vatican Radio website, here.

In an article from Zenit news, Fr. DiNoia is quoted as saying:

“What we’re seeing here is that the quality of life is not a judgment that is in our hands to make,” he said. “Life is a gift from God, and the Church has consistently taught that it is a gift that is not subject to the determination and decision of anyone, including the person himself or herself who is ill.”

The article goes on to say that:

Father Di Noia affirmed that the human person has a “dignity which perdures through all of the various physical states which each person experiences in life from the existence in the womb to the final moments before death. At no point can life be terminated for any reason.”

 Fr. DiNoia on Vatican Radio: Download

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