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.

Thursday, July 5, 2007

From Sandinista to devout Catholic

Has Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega really had a change of heart?

Daniel Ortega, the onetime leader of an armed Marxist movement that overthrew the Anastasio Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua at the end of 1979 and governed that country until 1990, arrived in Mexico City on June 28 -- again as President of Nicaragua.

Ortega took office again as President of Nicaragua in January 2007, but before participating in any official protocol upon his arrival in Mexico, he instead went to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe to thank the Virgin Mary for helping him return to the presidency.

"We come from a Christian and Marian people who venerate the Virgin of Guadalupe," said the Nicaraguan president.

Read the rest of the story here: California Catholic Daily

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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.”