New York tries to force Catholic hospitals into euthanizing patients, archbishop warns

by Monica Showalter 

Looks like the honeymoon, such as it was, between New York's mayor, Zohran Mamdani, and newly installed Archbishop Ronald Hicks. is over.

Mamdani, being a Marxist, and the entire State of New York led by Kathy Hochul, have decided that the Catholics are going to have to go along with their euthanasia agenda, violating their faith and conscience, as well as the First Amendment guaranteeing freedom of religion, in participating in assisted suicide, known as Medical Aid in Dying, same as the Canadians have, and too bad if they don't like it.

Archbishop Hicks, to his credit, sees what they are doing, and he's speaking out.

In a powerful op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal, the archbishop wrote:

As Catholics, we see the face of Christ himself in every patient—every elderly grandmother alone in a hospital room, every father battling cancer, every child suffering serious illness. Healthcare is a sacred duty to cure if possible and always to care.

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Now, New York is trying to change how we care—by forcing Catholics to help people kill themselves through what legislators have euphemistically named the Medical Aid in Dying Act. While the law offers the pretense of a religious exemption, the state still demands that healthcare providers counsel their dying patients about what the state believes are the benefits of assisted suicide.

 

The Mamdanites and Hochul team are threatening Catholic hospitals with lawsuits, bankruptcy, license forfeiture, and jailtime if they don't play ball with the all-powerful state, like commissars with little red stars on their worker caps.

Hicks is wise to how this crap works, too, writing:

As archbishop of New York, I confidently declare that we will not abandon our patients, and we will not comply. New Yorkers deserve the opportunity to seek medical care from providers who won’t suggest suicide in their most vulnerable moments.

Hicks knows the score. This is exactly how euthanasia works in Canada -- someone who's ill, confused and vulnerable, gets told to sign on the dotted line for euthanasia thinking it's treatment, then once it's explained, changes his or her mind, but too late. The unwilling patient gets ignored by the death henchmen as the needles go in and the pills get ingested. There have been many such cases in Canada and the Netherlands and other places that embrace this barbarism because that's how this works, the line between voluntary death and involuntary murder gets breached over and over and nobody pays except for the victim.

That's not what medical care is about and Catholics invented medical care.

By contrast, death is a Marxist's stock in trade and communists worldwide have racked up quite a body count. They haven't changed any, this time the state is out of money, so the aim is to cut costs of those who need expensive care to save money, so now it's time for another go at the Catholics.

This statement, early on, from Mamdani, who skipped the bishop's installment in New York City, demonstrates quite the forked tongue:

“Congratulations to Archbishop Ronald Hicks on today’s installment and welcome to New York City,” Mamdani said in a post on X. “I know that Archbishop Hicks and I share a deep and abiding commitment to the dignity of every human being and look forward to working together to create a more just and compassionate city where every New Yorker can thrive.”

Yeah, sure. Mamdani is all about 'dignity of every human being,' meaning, those who are profitable through votes and increased federal funding.

New York state, which is behind this, is even worse.

Notice the shifting and erratic directives from them, described by Hicks, actually demanding that the Church lie about the killings the state would like them to do, which is just so ... Stalin:

Some Catholic facilities, including the Carmelite Sisters’ convent in Hartsdale, have been told that they will have no religious exemption at all. And even the institutions that do manage to receive the condescending gift of a state-issued exemption are still required to be complicit in the act of suicide. They are obligated to find a substitute who will provide the lethal drugs in their place, manage the transfer of a patient to the facility that will facilitate the patient’s death, and even to write death certificates falsely stating that a patient died of a disease when the genuine cause of death was the lethal drugs he ingested.

This is redolent of the COVID era when then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo demanded nursing homes to seed their quarters filled with immunocompromised elderly people with COVID patients, which killed many of them instead of use the ship beds offered by President Trump during his first term. The nursing homes tried to stop it but the calls to the state help lines for this purpose went ignored -- almost as if they wanted the nursing homes to kill off the patients.

Mamdani and his Democrats don't care about the First Amendment or religious freedom. Churchmen in recent years, all the way up to the pope, have focused on President Trump as the bad guy, spending all their moral capital on people who have violated legitimate U.S. immigration law and whose only penalty is to be returned to their more-Catholic-than-the-U.S. countries, often loaded with U.S. money.

The real threat against to the Church, though, is from Marxists like Mamdani and Hochul who don't think the Church has a right to exist, or hold its beliefs, doing the commissar thing on them, vowing to make them do things that go against their faith and conscience in the name of supporting the vast state and all its power.

Ironies abound. Trump is the one who defends religious freedom -- of the religious orders, the Catholic hospitals, and the First Amendment against the depredations of the Marxist state, and who still will do that. No Democrat is going to do that for the Church as Mamdani bears down and harasses the Catholics into violating their faith, and it's quite likely there will be a showdown wending its way through the courts and getting very expensive for the Church. Maybe some thanks to Trump from this same clergy is in order as the bishops are forced to fight this, is in order.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/11/mamdani-forces-catholic-hospitals-into-euthanizing-patients/