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.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes Wednesday, March 21, 2007

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Polish public split on pro-life amendment, poll finds
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=49985

Earlier Primaries Might Limit Debate - Family issues would get less attention, pundits say
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000004168.cfm

South Carolina Lawmakers Propose Ultrasounds Before Abortions
http://www.wltx.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=47984

Catholics Descend on Tiller's Abortion Mill for 72 Hours of Prayer
http://www.christiannewswire.com/index.php?module=releases&task=view&releaseID=2539

'Anti-Catholic' Pelosi Accused of Promoting 'Culture of Death'
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200703/POL20070320a.html

Vatican instructs German bishops to cut ties with abortion counseling group
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=8900

Cardinal O'Malley urges 4,000 women to stand up for life, family
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=8909

Directors of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) endorse bill forcing taxpayers to pay for research requiring the killing of human embryos
http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=WU07C12

Abort gay babies?
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54798

A Political Plot to Undermine DOJ Obscenity Prosecutions
http://www.constitutionallycorrect.com/archive/2007/03/20/371.aspx

Pornography's Death Grip
http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=104872

Greatest disappointment with US Bishops "Married Love" document on NFP is that it fails to convey any sense of urgency
http://www.newoxfordreview.org/article.jsp?did=0307-kippley

CWA on Women Jumping Off the Career Track
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/12607/BLI/dotcommentary/index.htm

Faith and Major League Baseball featured in new film
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=8922

Christian ideas gone mad - time to take closer look at Enlightenment values which underpin much of modern thinking
http://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=498

Author Philip Jenkins discusses the demographic trends and religious movements that the elite don't notice.
http://www.ignatius.com/Magazines/CWR/TheYoung.htm

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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.”