Posted on 04/11/2002 11:24:11 AM PDT by Saundra Duffy
Cardinal Likens Abortion to Terrorism Tue Apr 9, 1:01 PM ET - Associated Press
VATICAN CITY - A Roman Catholic cardinal compared abortion, euthanasia and genetic experiments to the Sept. 11 terror attacks, saying Tuesday they all share a "contempt for human life."
Cardinal Francis Arinze, the Vatican point man on dialogue with other religions, made the remark in a message celebrating a Buddhist festival.
He appealed to Buddhists to work against "a culture of death, in which abortion, euthanasia and genetic experiments on human life itself have already obtained or are on the way to obtaining legal recognition."
In his statement, Arinze said: "How can we not make a correlation between this culture of death in which the most innocent, defenseless, and critically ill human lives are threatened with death, and terrorist attacks, such as those of 11 September, in which thousands of innocent people were slaughtered?"
"We must say that both of these are built on contempt for human life," the cardinal said. The Vatican released the statement Tuesday ahead of next month's Feast of Vesakh, which celebrates Buddha's birthday.
Arinze said Buddhists and Christians share a "common respect for human beings." Christians and Buddhists, he said, "should build a culture of life, in which the right to life is fully protected from conception until natural death… This would be a way to counteract and overcome the culture of death."
The 69-year-old cardinal has worked for more than 20 years at the Vatican, where he has been a key figure in arranging interfaith dialogue among Catholics, Muslims and Hindus. He gained attention in the past after a newspaper article described him as a contender to be the next pope. Since then, he has shied away from contact with the press.
Amen and amen!
The Church has it's act together. Certain heretics within it wearing Roman collars and masquerading as priests do not. Their actions do not mitigate the doctrines and disciplines of the Catholic Church. 8.3% of the Apostles betrayed Christ for 30 pieces of silver. 91.7% did not.
One heck of a good point.
The family, wounded but undeterred, found two surgeons at the Vanderbelt University Hospital in Nashville who were performing risky surgery on 3 to 4 month old fetuses.
The high risk surgery was performed in the 23rd week of gestation and took less than one hour to remove the womb, and using ultrasound to detect the baby's position, cut a small slit, sew the opening up at the base of her spine and close the womb. Before doing so, one of the doctor's pulled her arm out and proclaimed that she would be a beautiful girl. Sarah Marie was born 2 monts premature, healthy.
This photo became the center of a controversy when the Fox News cable channel canned talk-show host Matt Drudge. The cyber-pundit, who broke the Monica Lewinsky story, was tossed in November after refusing to tape his weekly show. Network execs had refused to allow him to show the photo, claiming Drudge planned to use it to further his anti-abortion agenda; he cried censorship and walked.
Yes. The baby's name is Samuel Armas.
The next pope is THE LAST POPE
http://jpdawson.com/lastpope.html
P.S. Also PLEASE check the BIBLE
A possible scenario, but the most distasteful for the Catholic Church, is that the original prophecies of St. Malachy (111 popes) are correct and at the passing of John Paul II the college of Cardinals elects a Pope who is not a true believer and he becomes the false Prophet. This could be devastating to the Catholic believers between the election of the Gloria Olivae Pope and the Rapture. This would indicate that the prophecies of Malachy were not from the Lord. If he (the Gloria Olivae) is a false pope, it will be extremely detrimental to the marginal or carnal Christians. A large portion of the Catholics (968 million) will accept the Gloria Olivae Pope as the Vicar of Christ and if he is the false prophet, he will turn them to the Antichrist and indicate he (the Antichrist) is the Savior of the world. This would be the False Religion of Revelation 17, Babylon the Harlot.
P.S. Always check the BIBLE
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