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The three issues cited can be public or personal - and all are a matter of natural law, not dogma. The Church's claim to superior knowledge on each of them is flawed - and borders on magicism. Letting another person end their life before their final period of pain is a form of compassion - that the Church should look at. We are a resurrection people who should not fear death or God. Abortion before quickening used to be the teaching of the Church - and 90% of abortions happen before that point. Again, Catholics may or may not have the procedure - but making it illegal often has doctors fear treating miscarriage - with tragic results. The death penalty, seen in a Hobbesian perspective, makes sense as euthanasia to protect people against danger - which is the obligation of the Sovereign - which in our case is the people. Even fellow prisoners should be protected against the murderous. Additionally, most - if no all - prisoners see life without parole as a death sentence. Again, there are natural law ethic questions that an educated Church can debate rather than obey.

On late term abortion, fetal hospice should be the process so as to forestall other forms of abortion, including in Catholic hospitals. No one has a right to not be born.

Also, the natural implication of Dignitatis Humanae is a limitation on the Church on insisting on a Catholic morality. To recognize freedom of religion without pluralism is a form of moral confusion on the part of the hierarchy. The Church contains all four ways of life (in a cultural space). The realists are the people in the pews who consider The Church to be the hierarchy. There is Faith - which is loyalty, and faith in God, which may require taking a leap to do what is right in a given situation - even to the extent of rejecting the teachings of the Church when it is in error (see masturbation, birth control, the ordination of women and gays and homosexuality in general). Differences in the latter lead to differences in what you cite.