Posted on 10/24/2024 1:11:55 PM PDT by Morgana
A vibrantly coloured, 15-metre-long quilt woven with stories of Catholic women who have had abortions has been unrolled outside the Vatican in protest against the topic being left off the agenda of a major summit hosted by Pope Francis.
Thursday’s demonstration by Catholics for Choice, a US-based abortion rights group, comes days after the pontiff emphasised his traditional views of women while reiterating that abortion was “murder” and that doctors who terminate pregnancies were “hitmen”.
Those words, made during a visit to Belgium, were enough to prompt the prime minister, Alexander De Croo, to summon the Vatican’s ambassador, it emerged on Thursday.
Speaking to parliament, De Croo lambasted the remarks as “unacceptable”, adding he had invited the Holy See’s top diplomat in the country, the apostolic nuncio, “for discussions.”
“My message to the apostolic nuncio will be very clear: what happened there is unacceptable,” he said. “We do not need lessons on how our lawmakers democratically approve laws. The time when the church dictated the law in our country is fortunately long behind us,” he said.
The month-long, closed-door summit in the Vatican, known as a synod, is the final session of a debate on the future of the church and how to adapt it to the needs of Catholics today. But decisions on some of the most divisive topics, including women’s ordination and blessings for same-sex couples, have been postponed until next year, while abortion was never on the agenda.
Official Catholic church teaching condemns abortion in all circumstances, even if there is a risk to the mother’s life. But data from the Pew Research Centre earlier this year showed that the majority of Catholics in the United States, which has the fourth-largest Catholic population in the world, believed it should be legal in all or most cases.
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That’d be, a “catholic in name only”...
And that is correct.
Every now and then I wonder if some of the left's supporters on abortion are from women who have guilt about an abortion in her past, but unable to realize that she is not defined by her past. Christ has set us free from our sinful pasts. Sometimes even fellow Christians don't fully understand the grace of God over our past.
Sometimes people who don't understand that, feel that they have to justify their past by supporting others committing the same sin, in this case a sin that takes someone's life. Perhaps part of our pro-life argument should be that people don't have to justify their past on their own -- which is good because we can't. Only Christ can.
“That’d be, a “catholic in name only”...
No. It’s not the same thing as being a RINO, unless they never received the sacraments and are saying they’re catholic. There would be no reason to do that
The Catholic Church is not a democratic organization. Once someone is baptized Catholic they are Catholic. They will be judged on judgement day as Catholic. Once they receive the sacraments they are Catholics aware of sin.
If you mean Catholic in name only, saying you don’t do what they say is ok even Catholics are doing this. Then yes. More appropriate- Catholics who don’t follow catholicism. They’re excommunicated. Whether that’s been declared by a priest or not
As God said to Jeremiah in Jeremiah 1:5 "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you."
“Sometimes people who don’t understand that, feel that they have to justify their past by supporting others committing the same sin, in this case a sin that takes someone’s life.”
Most pro choice people are like this. Those death-scorts you see at the abortion clinic? Most all of them had abortions and in some sick twisted way they are justifying their abortion by “helping” another woman do the same.
If you are pro-choice, you are not Catholic. You may think you are but you’re not.
None of the whiny, sentimental, crybaby arguments that the pregnant mom puts out there should carry any weight about the horrible, abominable sin of slaughtering innocent humans in utero, most of whom were conceived outside of marriage, carelessly, and without any regard for the possibility of another human life resulting from their selfish behavior.
And without genuine repentence, sacramental absolution, and dedication to not doing it again, people who have abortions will be in a horrible state of being damned when they die and are judged.
Their whiny social issues, their vanity, their 'embarrassment' completely reduce to insignificance when the greater truths are considered.
The notion of a Pro-Choice Catholic is absurd and they should be ashamed of labeling themselves that. They are walking scandals who auto-excommunicate by advocating abortion.
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