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.

Saturday, July 14, 2007

NEWS FROM THE TRENCHES

Students of Thomas Aquinas College
pray the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary
in front of the Family Planning Associates abortion
clinic in Ventura, CA.

Saturday, June 23, 2007 – Family Planning Associates, San Diego

“You guys are f%$&#&@ stupid. You should have all been aborted!” yelled the driver. “God bless you sir,” retorted one of the counselors. The angry driver accelerated out of the driveway, his tires squealing.

News from the Trenches

This morning we had seven prayer warriors praying the Holy Rosary as well as litanies, prayers and hymns from the “Helpers of Gods Precious Infants” prayer book. Two prayer warriors made their debut at the Family Planning Associates abortuary -- Al , an elderly gentleman who prays twice a week at the Clinica Medica abortion mill in Chula Vista, and a lady from Poway who later said she could really feel the presence of the Holy Spirit as she prayed and sang Hymns. She said she would like to try sidewalk counseling.

Read the rest of the story here: California Catholic Daily

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.”