DEACON FOR LIFE: Calling All Priests: Repeat the Vatican Cardinal's Words from your Pulpit says Priests for Life

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Calling All Priests: Repeat the Vatican Cardinal's Words from your Pulpit says Priests for Life

By John-Henry Westen

WASHINGTON, April 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, applauded the remarks made Monday by Vatican Archbishop Angelo Amato, secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The Archbishop called abortion "terrorism with a human face" and said: "Besides the abominable terrorism of suicide bombers, which is ever-present in the media, there is the so-called terrorism with a human face, which is also a daily occurrence and just as repugnant, which continues to be propagated by the media, manipulating traditional language with expressions that hide the tragic reality of the facts."

"Our organization challenges every priest and pastor in America to repeat these words from the pulpit," said Fr. Pavone. "Even preachers of the Gospel can be in denial about abortion and may think that sugar-coated words will solve the problem. They won't. It's time to strengthen our language and bring it into line with the reality of what abortion is."

For more of what Cardinal Amato said see:
Senior Vatican Official: Abortion Clinics are "Slaughterhouses of Human Beings"
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/apr/07042401.html

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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.”