Vatican Official Says ‘Life’ Should Never be Used as a Political Weapon

Crux ^ | 8/28/20 | Elise Ann Allen

[marshmallow]

ROME – As US presidential elections heat up and “life issues” are expected to figure prominently in the campaign, the Vatican’s top official in the area has cautioned against turning the pro-life cause into an ideological weapon, saying making the protection of life a political football risks doing “great harm.”

“Life is a great gift that comes from God … No one achieves life on their own. We all receive it, and we receive it not to keep it, but to multiply it like those talents in the Gospel,” Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Vatican’s Academy for Life, told Crux in an interview.

It is because the life of each unique individual – from its natural beginning to its natural end – is a gift, he said, “that the human person is never a means but always an end. Period.”

Referring to the United States’ current presidential race, where appeals to religion and life issues have become a core strategy for both President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden, Paglia said issues of ethics and morality are not solely the concern of one nation, but they have become “a global issue.”

Because of this, he said, Christian churches in the U.S. ought to feel “a universal responsibility” toward life, and called for greater engagement on the life issue “in all its dimensions …That is, a perspective of global bioethics, one that engages all the major topics that touch on life, of the individual and of the human family.”

“It would do great harm,” he said, “if some topic of bioethics is extracted from its general context and put toward ideological strategies. It would do great harm.”

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I smell Pope Soros.

[madprof98]

This is the effeminate homosexual who had a mural painted of himself embracing a bunch of guys painted for the sanctuary of his church. He’s on Team Biden all the way.

[CondoleezzaProtege]

🙄

[Paladin2]

P2 says the Papacy should never be used as a Political Weapon [except for Pope John Paul II].

[eens]

Old Faglia. Source is Crux. It figures.

Nope, getting too uppity on pro-life might turn you into a Cortez who won’t rest until child sacrifice is ended. Gotta respect folks who have Planned Barrenhood chop up their kids and sell the parts.

[ebb tide]

Paglia Ping

[Gay State Conservative]

Lemme guess...the current guy supports Biden?

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Sister Byrne’s speech was so powerful it made the devil howl - and now all his minions are now scampering around trying to fix things.
Her strength and courage struck a cord.

[Bayard]

Bishop is anti life obviously.

[simpson96]

The Vatican has turned into a pit of vipers.

[Bigg Red]

Step down, Bergoglio.

Prayers up for Holy Mother Church.

[Mastador1]

Apparently using death, abortions as a political weapon is just fine with the Vatican.................and it’s pope socialista fagato if you please.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

I really marvel at how the apostate Catholic hierarchy twists every logical argument into something that's not allowed. Even an 8 year old would know correct the answer.
 

[MrChips]

Who is “This”?

[mrobisr]

When are you rc’s going to realize that you are in the church of Thyatira, the whore of rome?

All of you claim “our” church makes it until the end, well the only church that make it to the end is the church of Thyatira. The end is not good, it’s damned and its children are thrown on a bed of sickness because of its sin.

“You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet.”

Quit, I beg you to quit praying to the demon that you call mary our Lord’s mother Mary. The real Mary would never ask you to pray to her, or serve her, or bow to her, receive graces through her, or worship her. Her own words were do as “He says to do” and Jesus said pray to me only, serve me only, bow to me only, grace is only from me, and worship me alone.

According to your tradition who was it that said do this for me…

Jesus???, No it was not Jesus.
Or another spirit? Yes it was another spirit, 2 Cor 11:14, Gal 1:8.

Remember Mary said do as He says not as I or and angel says, that is is clue that it was a demon!

Pray to our Lord Jesus Christ that He would open your eyes to the truth, His Holy Scripture and you would be born again not of flesh, but of the spirit.

I pray this in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.

[madprof98]

Paglia

[madprof98]

See post #7 here

[MrChips]

Why?

[boatbums]

I am not ashamed of being a "single-issue" voter. If a politician cannot be trusted to protect and defend innocent life in the womb, how can I trust him/her to protect or defend mine?

The Right to Life is the FIRST unalienable right in the Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

Without life, no other rights can exist.