Pope: A Society with Legal Abortion Cannot Fight Crime Effectively

LifeSiteNews ^ | 9/18/06 | John-Henry Westen

[wagglebee]

ROME, September 18, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - On Saturday, Pope Benedict XVI addressed participants to a conference on stem cell therapy.  The conference was organized by the Pontifical Academy for Life and by the International Federation of Catholic Doctors' Associations.

The Pope pointed out the grave injustice of those who falsely claim that the Church is against scientific advancement. "In the face of the frequent and unjust accusations of insensitivity directed against the Church," he said, "I would like to underline the constant support she has given over the course of her two thousand-year history to research aimed at the cure of illnesses and at the good of humanity."

Benedict XVI added, "If there has been - and there still is - resistance, it was and is against those forms of research that involve the planned suppression of human beings who are already alive, though they may not yet have been born."  The Pope then highlighted how history "has condemned such science in the past, and will condemn it in the future, not only because it is devoid of the light of God, but also because it is devoid of humanity." 
 
"In the face of the direct suppression of human beings," he continued, "there can be no compromise or prevarication; it is inconceivable for a society to fight crime effectively when it itself legalizes crime in the field of nascent life."

See the full address (in Italian) here:
http://212.77.1.245/news_services/bulletin/news/18811.php?in...

(with files from the Vatican Information Service)

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The Pope then highlighted how history "has condemned such science in the past, and will condemn it in the future, not only because it is devoid of the light of God, but also because it is devoid of humanity."

Amen!

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[pissant]

And Thank you Pontiff, for not bowing to the rabid muslim barbarians.

[cinives]

"I would like to underline the constant support she has given over the course of her two thousand-year history to research aimed at the cure of illnesses and at the good of humanity."

Galileo begs to differ.

[wagglebee]

That was dealt with long ago, so go back to your Jack Chick comics.

[Mr. Thorne]

Uh, given the circumstances, he might be more inclined to agree…

As I recall, history says it was the Copernican Theory scholars who accused him of heresy, or some such.

These would be the 'establishment scientists', which, given our current laws, would make them the pro abortion types, yes?

[proxy_user]

My counterexample is Rudy Giuliani.

While he is pro-choice, during his term as Mayor of New York the police arrested everyone for everything. Crime plummeted.

[greenthumbedislndr]

start that danged crusade already...

[TAdams8591]

The popes statements are eloquently powerful!

He's been making some particularly truthful and poignant points lately.

[xzins]

If one doesn't protect life, then society doesn't care when life it taken.

Capital punishment is actually a signal that the society places and extremely high value on innocent life. And that is the best reason for having it.

[mjolnir]

Uh, given the circumstances, he might be more inclined to agree…

As I recall, history says it was the Copernican Theory scholars who accused him of heresy, or some such.

Absolutely correct, Mr. Thorne. It was the reigning scientific orthodoxy in astronomy and physics, that of Aristolelianism, that Galileo objected to--- Galileo's intuition that the "book of nature" had been written in numbers by God actually corresponds very neatly to the point Pope Benedict made about the Logos: that God is supremely rational beyond our imagining and not arbitrary--- thus, contra Hume, the universe is intelligible to reason and a science based upon reason as opposed to (as Hume thought custom and habit is possible.

David Hume recognized that the same arguments that undercut faith in God undercut faith in reason. He didn't understand that such arguments would ever affect society for the worse because, not believing in the power of reason over custom to affect passion, he thought arguments based on reason were largely powerless to affect the larger culture.

History has shown Hume wrong; reason without faith undermines itself. Pope Benedict is absolutely correct--- we must recover the older sense of reason he speaks of.

[the invisib1e hand]

...go back to your Jack Chick comics.

bwahahahahaha!

[the invisib1e hand]

If I may humbly offer an observation by extrapolation that the God which was apparently proposed by Muhammed, if that God is not bound by reason, then he is the God of insanity.

And lo, if there isn't plenty of evidence to confirm it.

[cinives]

http://www.catholic.com/library/galileo_controversy.asp

Even so, the Catholic Church today acknowledges that Galileo’s condemnation was wrong. The Vatican has even issued two stamps of Galileo as an expression of regret for his mistreatment.

You should upgrade your reading from Jack Chick comics - whatever they are. Even the Church acknowledges their error - try to be as moral as they.

[the invisib1e hand]

may I suggest a look at post #13, just for balance?

[cinives]

see my post #16, and the page referenced.

[wagglebee]

I never said the Church hadn't acknowledged that Galileo was right, I said it was dealt with a long time ago.

[cinives]

I was not taking an anti-Catholic swipe. I was just pointing out, in the name of accuracy, that the Pope's words were somewhat misleading.