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.

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Supreme Court rejects challenge to gay-conversion-therapy ban - 02 May 2017

California Catholic Daily

Dear Reader,

Our lineup for today includes:

Supreme Court rejects challenge to gay-conversion-therapy ban: High court turns down appeal of California's prohibition on treatment aimed at turning youths under age 18 away from homosexuality

Donald Welch is the pastor at San Diego’s Evangelical Christian Skyline Church. (image from Skyline Church)

Grounds of Lamb of God maternity home. (photo from San Diego U-T)

“This could ruin your relationship”: A save in the last week of April at Family Planning Associates in San Diego

McAllen, Texas, United States: A group of young woman and their children leave the Catholic Charities’ Center and head for the bus station where they’ll depart for various places in the US. [Photo via Newscom]

Catholic Charities of California gets additional funds to assist undocumented youth: Awarded $200,000 grant to conduct Medi-Cal outreach and enrollment assistance to undocumented youth and members of mixed-immigration-status households

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.”