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.

Friday, May 18, 2012

Vatican Diary / That sin of Sodom which cries out to heaven

The congregation for the doctrine of the faith reprints as-is the 1986 letter on homosexuality, precisely as various governments are legalizing gay unions. The commentaries of Ratzinger and Cardinal Biffi

VATICAN CITY, May 18, 2102 – The congregation for the doctrine of the faith is more engaged than ever before in expanding the range of distribution of its own magisterial production.

Not only has it inaugurated a new website full of documents:
http://www.doctrinafidei.va/index.htm

It has also given a mandate to Libreria Editrice Vaticana to reprint those volumes of its series "Documenti e studi" which had sold out and were therefore unavailable in stores.

Continue reading this article here: http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1350247?eng=y