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, November 6, 2007

Newspaper takes on the pope

San Jose Mercury-News says pharmacists should pay no heed to pontiff's advice on abortion-inducing and euthanasia drugs

The San Jose Mercury-News has advised its slightly more than 230,000 daily subscribers to ignore the Holy Father. What got the newspaper's editorial board into a snit was Benedict XVI's recent exhortation that pharmacists be allowed to follow their consciences when it comes to dispensing drugs that induce abortion or are used for euthanasia.
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California Catholic Daily

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"In Cordibus Jesu et Mariae"