DEACON FOR LIFE

Were there to be no support in the whole history of ethical and moral thought, were there no acknowledged confirmation from medical science, were the history of legal opinion to the contrary, we would still have to conclude on the basis of God's Holy Word that the unborn child is a person in the sight of God. He is protected by the sanctity of life graciously given to each individual by the Creator, Who alone places His image upon man and grants them any right to life which they have.

Saturday, March 17, 2007

LifeSiteNews NewsBytes - March 17, 2007

Mexican bishops call abortion and infanticide abominable crimes

http://www.theindiancatholic.com/newsread.asp?nid=6703

Polish bishops back tougher abortion law
http://www.poland.pl/news/article,Polish_bishops_back_tougher_abortion_law,id,264568.htm

'Sinister' federal government speech plan to track Americans - Bill would list ordinary citizens as lobbyists, disclose all contacts with politicians
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54715

Why high pensions mean low birth rates
http://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=501

Oregon Bill Threatens Pro-Life Centers
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000004156.cfm

US television media predictably gang up on General Pace for remarks about homosexuality
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54728

The Crime of Conviction — General Pace and Morality
http://www.catholicexchange.com/node/59978

Liberal media pushing for Gen. Pace's forced resignation
http://www.afa.net/kincaideditorial.htm

Retired Italian cardinal Martini breaks ranks on civil unions
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=49914

That day in Manila when Al Qaeda wanted to kill the Pope
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=8750&size=A

China Consultative Conference: "The government must end the one-child rule"
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=8757&size=A

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"In Cordibus Jesu et Mariae"

LIFE IS SACRED

An example of the traditional magisterial teaching which indicates that it is never morally licit to intentionally kill a child through abortion in order to “save the life of its mother” comes from the teaching of Pope Pius XII:

“Every human being, even the infant in the mother's womb, has the right to life immediately from God, not from the parent or any human society or authority. Therefore, there is no man, no human authority, no science, no medical, eugenic, social, economic or moral ‘indication’ that can show or give valid juridical title for direct deliberate disposition concerning an innocent human life-which is to say, a disposition that aims at its destruction either as an end in itself or as the means of attaining another end that is perhaps in no way illicit itself. Thus, for example, to save the life of the mother is a most noble end, but the direct killing of the child as a means to this end is not licit.”