Posted on 11/13/2008 4:45:34 PM PST by tcg
With all due respect to Professor Kmiec, Holy Mother Church does not complain nor is Her teaching on the necessity for the legal protection of life a complaint. She teaches us how to live according to the will of Christ, our Lord. When her pastors tell us that “[t]he common good can never be adequately incarnated in any society when those waiting to be born can be legally killed at choice” or that “[a] person who supports permissive abortion laws, however, rejects the truth that innocent human life may never be destroyed. This profound moral failure runs deeper and is more corrupting of the individual, and of the society, than any error in applying just war criteria to particular cases,” end of story.
Should there be any doubt, Pope Pius XII, Defender of Civilization, the visible head of God’s Church on earth could not have been any clearer: “[a] social teaching or a social reconstruction program which denies or prescinds from [the] internal essential relation to God of everything that regards men, is on a false course; and while it builds up with one hand, it prepares with the other the materials which sooner or later will undermine and destroy the whole fabric [of society].”
The 2008 Democratic Party platform states that “[t]he Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose a safe and legal abortion [to murder her child], regardless of ability to pay, and we oppose any and all efforts to weaken and undermine that right.”
(Excerpt) Read more at catholic.org ...
The Church carries a great weight of sin because of these callous, indifferent or evil choices. These marytered Saints will participate in the Judgement of these “Catholics”.
Slowly but surely the Church is awakening to the need for action: http://www.stmarysgvl.org/ourparish/2008-dedication-of-the-lateran-basilica-in-rome
It’s moot now, but I really wonder if we would be where we are if the Bishops had come out this strongly in public on Church teaching 10 or 20 years ago. They waited too long. They waited until FOCA was on the doorsteps. Do they REALLY want to stop abortion or is it a fundraising tactic?
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