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Tuesday 18 November 2014

"Killing me softly..."

Pope Francis has incontrovertibly spoken out on the evils of of the Culture of Death, for those who felt he was somehow soft on crimes against life.

The dominant thinking sometimes suggests a false compassion, that which believes it is helpful to women to promote abortion; an act of dignity to provide euthanasia; a scientific breakthrough to produce a child and consider it to be a right, rather than a gift to welcome; or to use human lives as guinea pigs, presumably to save others...
We are living in a time of experimentation with life. But a bad experiment. Making children rather than accepting them as a gift, as I said. Playing with life. Be careful, because this is a sin against the Creator: against God the creator, who created things this way...
Fidelity to the Gospel of life and respect for life as a gift from God sometimes require choices that are courageous and go against the current, which in particular circumstances, may become points of conscientious objection...

There is no human life that is more sacred than another, just as there is no human life qualitatively more significant than another just by virtue of having greater resources, rights and economic and social opportunities."

Would that he had called out the heinous Belgian attack on life, if not when it happened, then in this address to Association of Italian Catholic Medical Doctors.
And perhaps I malign him, perhaps he did say something when the putatively Roman Catholic King of the Belgians signed into law the elimination of a lower limit on the age of children who can be offed by the medical establishment, and the media failed to report it?
I never found anything, but that doesn't mean it did not happen.

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