DEACON FOR LIFE: ALL's Pro-Life This Week 12/4/2020

Friday, December 4, 2020

ALL's Pro-Life This Week 12/4/2020

                                        Featured Commentary
                                    

Bodies, Sins, and Mercy

Nearly 20 years ago, Archbishop John Myers wrote a pastoral letter in which he reminded his flock of the basics upon which our fight to end the slaughter of the innocents is based.

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                                        Week in Review
                                    

America is struggling through the last phases of a very difficult year and an election that is like no other. Secular press proclaims Biden the winner; it hides all legitimate discussion of a rigged election. Today we bring you some of the other side.

                                        ALL in the News
                                    

Last Monday, American Life League and STOPP International released a new report uncovering the deep-rooted racism within Planned Parenthood. The report, Planned Parenthood’s Racism . . . In Their Own Words, identifies 19 separate Planned Parenthood affiliates that this year have admitted to current practices of racism and white supremacy within the organization.

                                        Pro-Life Social Media
                                    

Despite some states issuing restrictions on family gatherings, that didn’t stop these Instagram babies from celebrating their first Thanksgiving in style.

                                        Video of the Week
                                    

Had more priests and bishops spoken of the apostasy of Joe Biden, would the presidential election have swung differently?

                                        Action Item of the Week
                                    

As we struggle in this secular world trying to comprehend what is happening around us and seeking an internal peace, let us take some time this week to reflect on the tremendous feast which the Church gives us this Tuesday.

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.”