Pope: Legislation "Supporting Contraception and Abortion is Threatening the Future of Peoples"

SAO PAULO, May 15, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Speaking Sunday to a gathering of Bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean, Pope Benedict XVI said "The family, the 'patrimony of humanity', constitutes one of the most important treasures of Latin American countries."

The Pope said that the family "is currently suffering a degree of adversity caused by secularism and by ethical relativism, by movements of population internally and externally, by poverty, by social instability and by civil legislation opposed to marriage which, by supporting contraception and abortion, is threatening the future of peoples."

Presiding at the inaugural session of the Fifth General Conference of the Episcopate of Latin America and the Caribbean which lasts until May 31, the Pope said that the "Christian life is not expressed solely in personal virtues, but also in social and political virtues." He added also that the Christian faith must be spread, not only by "homilies, lectures, Bible courses or theology courses, but we must have recourse also to the communications media: press, radio and television, websites, forums and many other methods."

Concluding the meeting with prayer, the Holy Father prayed for openness to life. He prayed imploring Christ to "remain in our homes, so that they may continue to be nests where human life is generously born, where life is welcomed, loved and respected from conception to natural death."

See the full Papal address here:
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2007...

"Christian life is not expressed solely in personal virtues, but also in social and political virtues."

And it is the idea that each individual can determine their own values (moral relativism) that has lead to the problems we have in society today.

1 posted on 05/15/2007 4:01:14 PM PDT by wagglebee

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2 posted on 05/15/2007 4:01:52 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)

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3 posted on 05/15/2007 4:02:15 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)

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4 posted on 05/15/2007 4:03:03 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)

5 posted on 05/15/2007 4:23:33 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))

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Neither is it valid to argue, as a justification for sexual intercourse which is deliberately contraceptive, that a lesser evil is to be preferred to a greater one, or that such intercourse would merge with procreative acts of past and future to form a single entity, and so be qualified by exactly the same moral goodness as these. Though it is true that sometimes it is lawful to tolerate a lesser moral evil in order to avoid a greater evil or in order to promote a greater good," it is never lawful, even for the gravest reasons, to do evil that good may come of it (18)—in other words, to intend directly something which of its very nature contradicts the moral order, and which must therefore be judged unworthy of man, even though the intention is to protect or promote the welfare of an individual, of a family or of society in general. Consequently, it is a serious error to think that a whole married life of otherwise normal relations can justify sexual intercourse which is deliberately contraceptive and so intrinsically wrong.
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6 posted on 05/15/2007 4:48:22 PM PDT by NYer ("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)

**Pope: Legislation “Supporting Contraception and Abortion is Threatening the Future of Peoples”**

Totally agree. And threatening our security too. Will we have enough troops in another generation?

7 posted on 05/15/2007 4:53:06 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)

The time is now for a battle of ideas and this is just the man for the job.

"...demolishing every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God..."

8 posted on 05/15/2007 5:10:55 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Thank you St. Jude.)

Sub-North africa+Suadi Arabia+Afganastan is where the exception has been to the fall of TFR everywhere in the world.

9 posted on 05/15/2007 5:23:51 PM PDT by John Will

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10 posted on 05/15/2007 9:28:01 PM PDT by Coleus (Woe unto him that call evil good and good evil"-- Isaiah 5:20-21)

The pope is precisely right. But we have to end abortion before we can attempt to convince people birthcontrol is wrong.

11 posted on 05/15/2007 9:31:56 PM PDT by TAdams8591 (Mitt Romney for President '08)

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12 posted on 05/16/2007 4:19:03 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)

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