Posted on 11/25/2022 6:27:20 PM PST by marshmallow
One local mayor even complained that the punishment was ‘too light.’
(LifeSiteNews) — An elderly priest at the head of 17 small parishes in the east of France has been barred from speaking in public by his diocesan superiors for four weeks because he declared that the worldwide number of victims of abortion was far higher than that of the First World War.
Father François Schneider made the “controversial” statement while preaching during the commemorative Mass on Armistice Day on November 11 in the tiny village of Bertrimoutier (307 inhabitants), near Epinal in the Vosges Mountains. “Abortion has killed more people worldwide than the Great War,” he said, adding that French politicians would be well inspired to “follow the example” of the Hungarian Prime minister, Victor Orban, who promotes a pro-birth policy and “takes courageous decisions.”
The words didn’t come out of the blue: Father Schneider was speaking in the context of a bid to make abortion a constitutional “right” in France, a measure that is currently being touted by president Emmanuel Macron’s “Renaissance” party at the French National Assembly. Another draft law with the same aim but using more “inclusive” language – it doesn’t refer to women in order to uphold transgender rights – was also presented last week by the extreme left “La France insoumise” party. Both texts were adopted by the law commission and will now go through the legislative process. Macron himself suggested that the “right” to abortion be included in the European charter of human rights.
Scheider’s graphic condemnation of abortion was quoted in the local press and on social media by people who had heard his sermon, creating “shock” and “strong emotion.” The “Renaissance” member of the National Assembly for the département of the Vosges, David Valence, called the priest’s comments “disgraceful” on......
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Theres no question abortion has killed more than wwii did.
Doesn’t say much for the Catholic Church since all of Christianity is based on truth.
He is correct, and they aren’t even close.
It is very difficult to find accurate numbers for abortions.
Even on the multipage Planned Parenthood annual report they make inferences about their supposedly helpful incidents of pregnancy terminations but no really accurate numbers.
Pew Research dodges it:
“How many abortions are there in the United States each year?
An exact answer is hard to come by. Two organizations – the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Guttmacher Institute – try to measure this, but they use different methods and publish different figures.”
Number killed in abortion since Roe v. Wade = 63 million.
I'd say he has a case.
By a factor of around 10.
The “Catholic Church” in France is basically an arm of the government.
That 63 million is just a US number. Worldwide it’s way beyond that. Abortion on demand was one fo the first new laws passed by the Soviets way back when and the numbers in the old USSR were huge.
Agreed, but enough to prove this priest's assertion.
These people are despicable. Truth deniers of the Rome kind.
At 1.68 billion killed (and that’s quite conservative), abortion has killed more than all of the world’s wars and health epidemics throughout all of recorded history combined.
At 1.68 billion killed (and that’s quite conservative), abortion has killed more than all of the world’s wars and health epidemics throughout all of recorded history combined.
And that’s just since 1980!
http://www.numberofabortions.com/
Father François Schneider must be applauded, and the church hierarchy and French politicians condemned. France's birthrate is well below even replacement levels, which brought demographer Chenais to observe that the future would require "replacement bodies." So, abort the next generation and then look for new citizens through mass migration. The recipe is one of disaster, culturally and religiously.
What is wrong with telling the truth?
Because the truth shall set you free. Once your eyes and heart are opened, you cannot close them again to the evil practice of abortion.
Those who deny the truth of this priest’s assertion have often embraced the cognitively delusional concept of denying that the unborn victims of abortion are actually human.
The leaders of the pro abortion agenda delude their useful idiots into accepting the notion that womb killing a gestating child is of no more consequence then inflamed tonsils, an infected appendix, or even a wart.
The Nazis had a term for this sort of philosophy. Lebensunwertes Leben. (life unworthy of life)
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