I did my secondary education in private, where it was still at that time a good proportion of all priests as teachers and as facilitators. My colleagues and I - the school was not mixed ... - There have met some teachers, great teachers scholars who fed us abundantly and constantly encouraged us to surpass ourselves. However, there was also lack of torturers of the Inquisition, the neurotics who were waking up every morning by St. Paul, fundamentalists who have been craving some Taliban and, finally, vipers who played with button-pee their admirers of pastoral and when we were caressing our faiths terrible sins of teenagers.
short, I discovered that men of God, two paths open to them: either that of holiness, by spreading the word of Christ's love, that of the papacy, protecting the institution. Cardinal Ouellet has taken the second path.
(Incidentally, do you remember how the character was called the devil, played by Yves Jacques, in Jesus of Montreal ? Richard Cardinal!)
God is with sadness that sometimes find their destiny is reminiscent of Peter Peladeau: starting a business from scratch and see so mistreated by his heirs ...
Still in its Old Testament, God, Who had not read the original oath of his contemporary Hippocrates, who prohibited the use of pessaries (drugs that are inserted into the vagina) abortion, do not really care about abortion. He does not condemn in any way.
The Bible says life begins when God breathes life into the nostrils of Adam (Genesis 2, 7). Which seems to exclude all go the embryo or fetus from the definition of being alive because it takes its air from the umbilical cord. Then, once the ten commandments revealed to Moses, we focus more on the difference between killing someone and unborn child, because even if it strikes a man death must be killed (Exodus 21, 12), it says nothing if he hits a woman and kills her child
When men fight, and they hit a pregnant woman, if the have given birth, without further incident, the offender shall be liable to a fine imposed under the husband of the woman, and he shall pay as the judges' decision. But if there is an accident, you shall give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe ( Exodus 21, 21-25 ).
No "fetus Fetal ... However, if the woman conceives a child out of the sacred bonds of marriage, burn it or the Stones, and this, unlike our southern friends who have the decency not to execute a pregnant woman (Deuteronomy 22, 21; Leviticus 21, 9; Genesis 38, 24).
And Jesus in the Gospels , never condemns abortion.
Moreover, the prospect of the Catholic Church on abortion has changed since 2000 years. Among others, Augustine, abortion is a sin because it goes against the one and only reason to have sex: make a baby. As for Thomas Aquinas, he said that God gave a soul to the boy after 40 days of gestation, and daughter after 80 days. Therefore, the punishment was declined by the presence of the soul: the sentence was more severe if we had miscarried a boy to a girl 40 days to 60.
Later in the nineteenth century, when the exact sciences and medicine begin their growth, and that Pius IX invents the infallibility of the Pope, life is sacred from conception and there are only two exceptions to the prohibition of abortion: an ectopic pregnancy or uterine cancer, where convenient removal of the uterus and fetus at the same time.
short, there has been much debate on abortion, but not really address the key stakeholders, as if everyone had an informed opinion on the subject. One need only note the recent comments of Archbishop Ouellet on abortion, female 16 years and the lack of support offered to women to be aware of his ignorance on the subject: that of a cleric who has little contact with the reality of his flock and that of a man who never has to make a decision to make a child to term or not. While the debate on abortion is far from over, but mothers should be appropriated, because it belongs to them.
Little Reading
Saul Friedländer, Pius XII and the Third Reich , Paris, Seuil, 2010.
On the eve of her beatification, which will, hopefully, when opening the archives of his pontificate, he agrees to return to the relations of Pope Pius XII and the Germans during the Second World War. Friedländer, with talking his sources, mostly German because he had little access to those of the Vatican, highlights the common interests of the Catholic Church and the regime Nazi in their fight against Bolshevism. In fact, although he knew in 1942 what happened to the Jews, Pius XII thought that a victorious Germany would be the best bulwark against the rise of communism. Is this in fact a saint?
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