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Pope Benedict Says Teach Youth the Holiness of Marriage, Value of Human Life
Says embryos in earliest stages of life are fully human
By Gudrun Schultz
VATICAN CITY, April 4, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI said there is a need to teach young people about the holiness of marriage, and to educate them within a Christian context, in two addresses over the past three days.
Speaking to the Bishops of the Ivory Coast Monday, the Holy Father said young people must be better taught about the holiness of the marriage vocation and the great potential it offers for sanctity.
“You must continue your efforts to make it better accepted among young people that, for Christians, marriage is a route to holiness,” he said.
Benedict said marriage was especially important in places where couples commonly live together without marriage, and where polygamy is practiced and supported by religious sects, reported the Italian news source Ansa yesterday.
He also emphasised the importance of faithfulness to celibacy among priests. Celibacy and chastity are central to a priest’s mission, he said, and the lives of priests should be an example to the whole community. Priests need to understand this more fully through a deepening of their faith.
In an address to university professors and administrators last Saturday, at a seminar by the Vatican’s Congregation for Catholic Education, the Pope said human beings must not be sacrificed for the sake of science and that European universities must draw on Europe’s Christian roots to educate coming generations.
“We must say strongly that human beings can never be sacrificed to the successes of science and technology,” he said, reported the Associated Press. In February, Pope Benedict specified that embryos in the very earliest stages of life are fully human and of no less value than a more developed child.
Benedict said universities must not merely teach but must “educate” the new generations by “appealing to the heritage of ideals and values that have marked the past millenniums. Universities can therefore help Europe conserve its soul and revitalize the Christian roots that gave birth to it.”
Benedict said universities must not merely teach but must “educate” the new generations by “appealing to the heritage of ideals and values that have marked the past millenniums. Universities can therefore help Europe conserve its soul and revitalize the Christian roots that gave birth to it.”
See why the libs were terrified of this guy? He's old-school. No guff from anyone. No compromises. He'll say what's what, and that's it. w00t Benedict!
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Amen.
Faith-sharing bump.
As Louisiana Director of Knights For Life, I wholeheartedly agree!
All I ever wanted to know about muslims I learned on 911.
This is exactly what we are hoping to help get started with A Catholic Respect Life Curriculum
I highly recommend this film. Also stars Joaquin de Almeida as the murdered Archbiship Romero of El Salvador.
BTW, Narnia is now out on DVD. Walmart has it for $13.88 for this week only, then it goes up to $19.88.
Al ilah, "Allah", is the antithesis of Jesus.
Thus, the worldviews of Islam and Christianity will ever be diametrically opposed.
The decree does not abrogate the earlier "Didache" (dating from the 1st-2nd century A.D. period), which plainly states that "thou shalt not kill a child by abortion, neither shalt thou slay it when born."
Thanks y'all!
Thanks!
My point was that Innocent III talks of a fetus that is not "ensouled". According to B16, that isn't possible.
GOP Policy Committee Says Marriage Amendment Needed to Stop Courts
Culture & Cosmos
Volume 3, Number 35 | April 5, 2006
Dear Colleague,
The marriage debates are heating up. The Senate will once more consider a federal marriage amendment to the US Constitution. We report today about a marriage paper just published by the Republican Policy Committee.
Spread the word.
Yours sincerely,
Austin Ruse
President
Action Item: Read the entire policy paper here. http://secure.grasswave.com/stats/linkstats.php?PersonID=282557&MBlastID=601&MailingPanelID=601&url=http%3A%2F%2Frpc.senate.gov%2F_files%2FMar2806MarriageAmendSD.pdf
GOP Policy Committee Says
Marriage Amendment Needed to Stop Courts
By Mark Adams
An important Senate committee says in a new policy paper that if a Constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman is not passed, state and federal courts may eventually impose same-sex marriage. The paper says that advocates of same-sex marriage plan to challenge state marriage laws producing a patchwork of laws across the country that "will inevitably end up playing out in the courts, as same-sex marriage puts new stresses on the legal system."
"Why a Marriage Amendment is Necessary," published by the Republican Policy Committee comes in anticipation of the impending June 5th debate on the floor of the Senate over a proposed Constitutional amendment defining marriage as consisting "only of the union of a man and a woman." Majority leader Sen. Bill Frist announced that the Senate will vote on the amendment on June 6th. The policy paper details the status of marriage law today and includes a discussion of the overwhelming popularity of traditional marriage laws at the state level and the challenges those law are already facing in the courts.
The paper says, "Failing to act to protect traditional marriage laws by a constitutional amendment will, in the end, likely result in the judicial imposition of same-sex marriage on a nationwide basis." This will come about through a three step process. First, "some state supreme courts undoubtedly will strike down state marriage laws" resulting in "national fragmentation of marriage definitions." Second, the fragmented status will become untenable as cases that come before courts "involving everything from divorce to child custody to health care to probate will be more complicated and require case-by-case analyses in the courts." Such "a patchwork of definitions is not likely to endure" leading to the third step in which the issues becomes federal and the "ultimate arbiter will be the Supreme Court."
The paper says the Supreme Court would have "Have a duty to assist the lower courts in the management of the plethora of thorny legal problems that same-sex marriage will have created in a patchwork system. The Court will be under enormous pressure to craft a national solution." The paper says that regardless of whether or not an amendment is passed, there will eventually be a federal definition of marriage with the only question being whether it come from the people or the courts.
Right now 45 states have laws defining marriage according to traditional norms. Of those 45, 19 have state constitutional amendments and at least seven states are considering an amendment in 2006. The paper also notes that in the 19 states that have considered a state constitutional amendment, not only has the amendment passed but it has done so with an average of 71.5 percent of the vote. As of March nine states face court challenges to their laws defining traditional marriage and in four of those states lower courts "have already struck down the marriage laws and found a right to same-sex marriage in state constitutional provisions dealing with equal protection and due process."
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