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To: cpforlife.org

So does Catholic theology teach that the soul enters the body at the moment of conception?


9 posted on 02/25/2006 7:31:36 PM PST by proxy_user
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To: proxy_user; cpforlife.org
  THE CODE FOR HUMAN LIFE

God made us body and soul, when our body was made at conception were we given our soul.

Paragraph 6. Man

14 posted on 02/25/2006 7:41:29 PM PST by Coleus (IMHO, The IVF procedure is immoral & kills many embryos/children and should be outlawed)
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To: proxy_user

Post 2 has the authoritative answer.


15 posted on 02/25/2006 7:41:50 PM PST by cpforlife.org (Abortion is the Choice of Satan, the father of lies and a MURDERER from the beginning.)
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To: proxy_user

Here is what I was looking for:

"Early in the 13th century, Pope Innocent III stated that the soul enters the body of the fetus at the time of "quickening" - when the woman first feels movement of the fetus. After ensoulment, abortion was equated with murder; before that time, it was a less serious sin, because it terminated only potential human life, not human life.

"St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) also considered only the abortion of an "animated" fetus as murder.

Is the official teaching of the Catholic church now different?


19 posted on 02/25/2006 7:44:21 PM PST by proxy_user
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