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, October 23, 2008

Bishop Finn of Kansas City calls his diocese to prayer and sacrifice for election

Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City-St. Joseph

Kansas City, Oct 23, 2008 / 03:35 am (CNA).- With the presidential election only days away, Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City-St. Joseph is calling his flock's attention to the gravity of the choice they face and is urging them to join him in prayer.

Bishop Finn describes the coming election in the opening lines of his column for The Catholic Key by quoting Deuteronomy: "I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live."

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