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Nov 10, 2024 · 3. The Bible teaches that the child in the womb is truly a human child, who even has a relationship with the Lord. The phrase "conceived and bore" is used repeatedly (see Gen. 4:1, 17) and the ...
- St. John Eudes
St. John Eudes was a French missionary and the founder of...
- The Catholic Church and Abortion
By Fr. William Saunders. The Roman Catholic Church has...
- St. John Eudes
Nov 10, 2024 · By Fr. William Saunders. The Roman Catholic Church has consistently condemned abortion — the direct and purposeful taking of the life of the unborn child. In principle, Catholic Christians ...
The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: "Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law" (No. 2271).
The enactment of laws prohibiting abortion should be carefully formulated whenever the law provides the clause: "except in order to save the life of the mother." If abortion were understood in the sense stated above, there would be no need to use the exception clause. Moral and medical prudence would be sufficient, as it has been in past ...
Sep 30, 2024 · The Catholic Church teaches today what it has for two thousand years: Human life begins at conception and any deliberate participation in the killing of that defenseless life is a mortal sin. Abortion is the willful and intentional destruction of human life in the womb. Sometimes miscarriages are referred to as “spontaneous abortions,” but ...
The Catholic Church's stand on abortion was first directly attacked on April 19, 1970, when the Michigan chapter of the National Organization for Women's (NOW) so-called Ecumenical Task Farce on Women and Religion burned a Catholic missal and sent the ashes to the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Nov 10, 2024 · God, the Lord of life, has entrusted to men the noble mission of safeguarding life, and men must carry it out in a manner worthy of themselves. Life must be protected with the utmost care from the ...
