Lucy Letby: Have we built a culture of death?
How did a nurse commit such unthinkable murders? Are they really so unthinkable in a world that considers the killing of a baby with Down’s syndrome a “right”, that calls for abortion on demand up to birth? Are we so blind that we cannot see the lies, the ugliness and the evil that lurks beneath what bubbles up to the surface?
How deeply corrupted is a conscience that celebrates both the abolition of the death penalty and the introduction of euthanasia for prisoners, the emancipation of women and the right to self ID, the safeguarding of children and grooming in schools? We are crazy without God.
On top of this, those tasked with revealing God have tried to assimilate into the godless culture, thus compounding the blindness. As a result, broad swathes of the Church have forgotten what the Church actually teaches, its beauty, its integrity, its coherence, and in the perfect twist of an upside-down world it is left to modern feminists like Louise Perry and Mary Harrington to reason to Catholic conclusions like explorers stumbling across some undiscovered continent.
They are in awe of the consistency and integrated principles that they find there, but can’t yet see the divine hand at play, the divine hand which has gifted us these truths. They have the ratio without the fides, but one without the other will always fall into chaos; man against God leads to man against man, man against creation, body against soul.
If we were as worried about our souls descending to the fires of hell as we are about East Anglia submerging into the waters of global boiling, then we might pay close attention to those pastors who have not played the assimilation game. To Pope Benedict XV who Msgr Micheal Heintz tells us “had a knack for understanding the questions that weigh on people’s hearts, as well as how the Catholic tradition offers real answers, ones that truly respond to them at the deepest level – and can do so perennially – rather than ersatz, facile, and seemingly attractive solutions that only further impair this search for meaning by wedding the answer to the zeitgeist”.
Read the whole thing at the Catholic Herald here.
Some of the notes she wrote bear examining by an exorcist - it is really hard to understand how there could not be demonic influence involved in a case like this. The notes are rambling, practically incoherent and riven with self-loathing. Something to pray about.
I think the case shows the connections Katherine points out really clearly. The horrific, unthinkable irony of a hospital with a ward for saving babies and a ward for killing them, and how do the public perceive the different? In purely juridical terms? Do we fail to even recognise evil when we see it for the sake of utility? Has society become that indifferent to slaughter? And yet the paroxysms of hatred meted out to Letby for her actions seem weirdly blind to the similarity of the work of the abortion mill.
The conviction of Lucy Letby is a terrible miscarriage of justice. She is an innocent caught up in a turf war between consultants and management. Contrary to the claims of the media the level of neonatal deaths on the unit was not unusually high. However, perinatal mortality was high as was the number of stillbirths. Consultants were under pressure for generally perceived failings and sought to deflect attention by scapegoating Lucy Letby. Autopsies on the babies she's supposed to have murdered concluded that the deaths were due to natural causes and only later were alternative scenarios concocted though none of the babies was exhumed to test their validity. The forensic evidence was flawed and partial and a half-decent defence would have ripped it to shreds. As to the notes that you set such store by, they're clearly the anguished cries of someone who has been falsely accused of something they would be incapable of doing yet is riven with self-doubt and starts to believe that she has failed in some way. The case has very close parallels with that of Lucia de Berk, a Dutch paediatric nurse, who was eventually cleared, and that of Sally Clarke, imprisoned for the murder of her two babies and similarly cleared. I doubt that Lucy Letby will be so fortunate. If it was ever accepted that she was innocent, the whole rotten rickety edifice of English justice would collapse and too many people have too much to lose by such an eventuality. If there's any evil in this case, it's that of her accusers.
ReplyDeleteIn her notes (pictured above) she says she did it?
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