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 10, 2007

Salesian web site helps find missing children

New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Salesians of Don Bosco have launched a web site to trace missing children in India. According to SAR NEWS the Don Bosco National Forum for Youth at Risk maintains the site www.missingchildsearch.net, closely watched and monitored by child welfare organizations in all major cities in the country.
The web site intends to help find missing children providing information for the judicial authorities, the police as well as the unfortunate families. Visitors can leave messages and photos of the missing children. The site has provided a new platform for all child welfare organizations to come together and work together, the organizers say.
Salesian Fr. John Dharman of Coinbatore, explains: "We have volunteers who have been street children or juvenile delinquents themselves and have been rehabilitated and they can approach runaway children more easily having experienced the same pain and trauma". Salesians everywhere specialize in helping children in need.
The Don Bosco National Forum for Youth at Risk is a major partner of several child welfare groups and organizations in India which take care of street and working children and children who are victims of war, conflict natural calamities, sexual abuse, trafficking and HIV/AIDS. (PA) (Agenzia Fides 8/3/2007 righe 24 parole 256)

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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.”