Posted on 01/30/2005 9:07:01 AM PST by underlying
Staten Island, NY (LifeNews.com) -- A leading pro-life Catholic group says it supports a Colorado Catholic church's decade-long practice of offering a proper burial for thousands of babies who have died from abortions. The Colorado church is coming under fire for burying the babies it received secretly from a local mortuary.
Fr. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, says there is nothing wrong with the practice, even though abortion advocates are strongly opposing it.
"Some pro-abortion activists will protest the Church of the Sacred Heart of Mary Church in Boulder, for having held a religious ceremony to bury the dead," Pavone said. "Obviously, these protesters are no friends of religious freedom. They should be ashamed of themselves."
Father Pavone went further than just supporting the Colorado church. He says his group, during 2005, will organize similar burials and memorials to unborn children across the country.
"We at Priests for Life will organize major ceremonies to bury aborted babies in the coming year," Pavone said. "The people of Boulder and of every other city will not be able to ignore them."
Sacred Heart of Mary Catholic Church became the subject of a local and national controversy when it announced that it had been burying the babies for a decade at a memorial located on the church property.
Crist Mortuary, which serviced the abortion facility where the aborted babies were obtained, issued an apology Wednesday for providing the ashen remains of babies to the church.
The apology wasn't enough to satisfy local abortion advocates, who have protests planned at Crist and Sacred Heart.
"Crist knew what they were doing,'' said Peggy Loonan, executive director of Life and Liberty for Women, which backs abortion. "I don't buy (the apology) for a second.''
Related web sites:
Priests for Life - http://www.priestsforlife.org
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What possible basis for a protest could the pro-abortionists have? That ashes have rights?
I will look forward to the next move from these barbarians
Oh, right. It might give folks the idea that aborted babies were people too!
Burying babies from abortions, is an excellent idea! In fact, it is our duty to do so.
High praise to all the Catholics in their abortion fight.
Now, if these babies are just tissue, as the pro-abortionists claim, why should they care what is done with the 'tissue'.
What kind of a petty SOB would have a problem with burying the ashes of murdered children?
These babies deserve a proper burial. They were murdered! It's about time someone steps up to the plate and takes care of them after death cause no one sure as hell cared about them in the womb or when they were being ripped apart. It's proper and loving that they are being cared for the way they SHOULD have been cared for during and after pregnancy. God bless those little angels......and those who will care for them now.
Why's everyone so upset over a simple collection of cells (sarcasm)???
When one commits a murder, the last thing you want is the body to be found, buried, and given a tombstone.
In order to kill, one must dehumanize the intended victim.
Women who are considering abortion or who have had abortions are the victims of the biggest fraud perpetrated on the public ever.
The true victims however are the unborn, and they deserve the dignity of a burial. I don't believe the "mother" has a choice in the treatment of the body of their unborn child. In my opinion, they've given up all rights in that regard as soon as they decided to have an abortion and went through with it.
The bodies of miscarried babies however should be accorded proper burial, and the mothers of such should be given the full options in regards to the method.
It is an act of compassion and dignity, and though the unborn have no legal rights, it does not change the fact that honorable treatment of all humans, born and unborn, is a telling measure of the moral character of a society.
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