Re: New York State Bishops’ Statement on Governor Hochul’s Plan To Sign Assisted Suicide Bill (The Good Newsroom, 12/17/25)

Joe Tevington | 12/18/2025

Re: https://thegoodnewsroom.org/new-york-state-bishops-statement-on-governor-hochuls-plan-to-sign-assisted-suicide-bill/

Your Eminence and Your Excellencies:

Making Governor Kathy Courtney Hochul's signing of this homicidal bill all the more scandalous is that she is Catholic and an alumnus of the law school at the Catholic University of America!

The heinous immorality of killing the vulnerable is not left up to our "prudential" judgments. Shame on all of you for not making clear that she is excommunicating herself by this action.

On Judgment Day, how do you plan to explain your own moral cowardice?

Joseph Tevington
Proud Brooklyn native

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About the Author

Joe Tevington

Joe Tevington is a proudly orthodox Catholic, a husband since 1986, a dad to two adult children, a grandpa to two, and a civil service retiree. He is a sign language fluent certified rehabilitation counselor with graduate degrees in deafness rehabilitation, religious studies/moral theology, & Christian counseling psychology, as well as a catechetical diploma and certificates in benefits planning and Catholic social ministry. He deeply appreciates Catholic teaching on the sanctity of human life and the sanctity of the transmission of human life, as well as how they are to inform us in our apostolates and ministries.

On much lighter notes, he fancies himself to be the foremost authority on his native Brooklyn, when it comes to architecture, cinema, geography, history, Italian food, stick ball, stoop ball, or wiffle ball.