{"id":838,"date":"2008-10-21T17:22:10","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T17:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2008\/10\/from-the-usccb.html"},"modified":"2008-10-21T17:22:10","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T17:22:10","slug":"from-the-usccb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/10\/from-the-usccb.html","title":{"rendered":"From the USCCB"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just released (pdf)<\/a>
\n(Specifically, over the names of Cardinal Rigali and Bishop Murphy)<\/p>\n

In 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s Roe v. Wade decision knocked down laws against abortion in all 50 states, fabricating a constitutional \u201cright\u201d to abortion that continues to haunt and divide our society. Within two days of that decision, the Catholic bishops rejected it as \u201cbad morality, bad medicine and bad public policy.\u201d We called for a comprehensive response: exploring \u201cevery legal possibility\u201d for challenging the Court\u2019s tragic error and restoring legal safeguards for the right to life of the unborn child; helping to pass laws to \u201crestrict the practice of abortion as much as possible\u201d in the meantime; and educating society to the need to safeguard the child and support \u201cmore humane and morally acceptable solutions\u201d for women facing problems during pregnancy.
\nRecently, some have called on the Church to abandon most of this effort. They say we should accept Roe as a permanent fixture of constitutional law, stop trying to restore recognition for the unborn child\u2019s human rights, and confine our public advocacy to efforts to \u201creduce abortions\u201d through improved economic and social support for women and families.
\nMORE<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bishop Hermann, Archdiocese of St. Louis administrator:<\/a><\/p>\n

Judgment Day for us is on its way. Those 47 million children our nation destroyed are still living. We have destroyed their bodies, but their souls are still alive. When our Lord comes again, they may very well be there to judge us. Even worse, Jesus tells us that whatever we do to the least of our brethren, we do to Him. We would truly shudder if we heard the words, “I was in your my mother\u2019s womb but you took my life!”
\nIt is quite possible that we might see these children, but, depending upon the choices we have made, we may very well be separated from them by a great chasm which cannot be crossed, much as the rich man who ignored Lazarus, the poor man, during his lifetime here on earth but was separated from him after death. The rich man was in flames, but Lazarus was in the bosom of his heavenly Father.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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