A Penitent Blogger
Why this priority?
"The focus of the statement this week was admittedly very narrow indeed – only pro-abortion Catholic lawmakers....
"Some people have also reminded me not to forget other important moral issues, for instance euthanasia, embryonic stem cell research, death penalty, preemptive war, and health care, to name a few. I assure you, the Church will continue to speak on all these moral issues, while at the same time remembering that not all moral issues have the same moral weight.
"Procured abortion is always intrinsically evil and can never be justified. It is a direct attack on an innocent human life. In his encyclical on the Gospel of Life in 1995 the Pope referred to the fact that today many people have lost a sense of how grave abortion is. Because it is accepted in the popular mind, in behavior, and in the law, people are losing the ability to distinguish between good and evil, even on so fundamental issue as the right to life of the unborn (Evangelium vitae, 58).
"The destruction of human embryos for stem cell research is also intrinsically evil, as is euthanasia. They can never be justified because all these directly target and destroy innocent human life.
"Other moral issues do not have the same moral weight.
"On the death penalty, for instance, the encyclical reminds us that the death penalty may be justified in very limited instances: 'in cases of absolute necessity … when it would not be possible otherwise to defend society.... [and today] such cases are very rare, if not practically non-existent" (Evangelium vitae, 56; cf. also CCC 2267). The Catechism reminds us that war, for instance, may also be justified under certain defined conditions (CCC 2309).
"But procured abortion may never be justified. Euthanasia may never be justified. Destruction of human embryos for stem cell research may never be justified. They are always intrinsically evil."
The Most Rev. Peter Jugis, J.C.D
Bishop of Charlotte - Homily (excerpt)
"Some people have also reminded me not to forget other important moral issues, for instance euthanasia, embryonic stem cell research, death penalty, preemptive war, and health care, to name a few. I assure you, the Church will continue to speak on all these moral issues, while at the same time remembering that not all moral issues have the same moral weight.
"Procured abortion is always intrinsically evil and can never be justified. It is a direct attack on an innocent human life. In his encyclical on the Gospel of Life in 1995 the Pope referred to the fact that today many people have lost a sense of how grave abortion is. Because it is accepted in the popular mind, in behavior, and in the law, people are losing the ability to distinguish between good and evil, even on so fundamental issue as the right to life of the unborn (Evangelium vitae, 58).
"The destruction of human embryos for stem cell research is also intrinsically evil, as is euthanasia. They can never be justified because all these directly target and destroy innocent human life.
"Other moral issues do not have the same moral weight.
"On the death penalty, for instance, the encyclical reminds us that the death penalty may be justified in very limited instances: 'in cases of absolute necessity … when it would not be possible otherwise to defend society.... [and today] such cases are very rare, if not practically non-existent" (Evangelium vitae, 56; cf. also CCC 2267). The Catechism reminds us that war, for instance, may also be justified under certain defined conditions (CCC 2309).
"But procured abortion may never be justified. Euthanasia may never be justified. Destruction of human embryos for stem cell research may never be justified. They are always intrinsically evil."
The Most Rev. Peter Jugis, J.C.D
Bishop of Charlotte - Homily (excerpt)
posted by Penitens | 5:11 PM
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