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, April 5, 2007

LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes Thursday April 5th

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Wisconsin Considers Assisted Suicide
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000004297.cfm

Paris: archbishop and rabbi join to oppose euthanasia
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=50316

Womb transplant works in animals may soon come to humans
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=517382007

Ban on Gay Parade in Moscow Is Upheld
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2007/04/03/014.html

Helsinki is also the abortion capital of Finland
http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Helsinki+is+also+the+aborti...

Something unexpected is happening in Europe. Signs of re-awakening of Christian faith are slowly cropping up
http://ncregister.com/site/article/2189/

Skepticism and suspicion of past four decades is giving way to acceptance that Christ's resurrection is only explanation that makes sense
http://ncregister.com/site/article/2184

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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.”