First Book Published by Pope Emphasizes that the Fight against Legal Abortion Must Continue
In his first book published since his election as Pope, Benedict XVI rejects the suggestion that the Church has given up its fight for the right to life of the unborn, instead emphasizing that “There is no such thing as ‘small murders.’”
“Respect for every single life is an essential condition for anything worthy of being called social life,” he wrote, as reported by Reuters news. The book, The Europe of Benedict, in the Crisis of Cultures – only available in Italian – is a compilation of three sermons delivered between 1992 and April 2005 by the Pope while he was still Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
“Why don't we resign ourselves to the fact that we lost [the abortion] battle and dedicate our energies instead to projects where we can find greater social consensus?” Pope Benedict XVI asks rhetorically.
“Recognising the sacred nature of human life and its inviolability without any exceptions is not a small problem or something that can be considered part of the pluralism of opinions in modern society,” he answers.
The Holy Father also questions why modern society is repulsed by the thought of infanticide, “while becoming virtually insensitive to abortion. Maybe because in abortion you don't see the face of who will be condemned and never see the light,” he wrote.
By allowing state-sanctioned execution of the unborn, “you become blind to the right of life of another, the youngest and weakest who doesn't have a voice,” he wrote.
Pope Benedict also criticizes European lawmaker’s decision to exclude any mention of God from the new EU Constitution. “Europe has developed a culture that, in a manner unknown by humanity until now, excludes God from the public conscience,” he wrote.
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In his first book published since his election as Pope, Benedict XVI rejects the suggestion that the Church has given up its fight for the right to life of the unborn, instead emphasizing that “There is no such thing as ‘small murders.’”
“Respect for every single life is an essential condition for anything worthy of being called social life,” he wrote, as reported by Reuters news. The book, The Europe of Benedict, in the Crisis of Cultures – only available in Italian – is a compilation of three sermons delivered between 1992 and April 2005 by the Pope while he was still Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
“Why don't we resign ourselves to the fact that we lost [the abortion] battle and dedicate our energies instead to projects where we can find greater social consensus?” Pope Benedict XVI asks rhetorically.
“Recognising the sacred nature of human life and its inviolability without any exceptions is not a small problem or something that can be considered part of the pluralism of opinions in modern society,” he answers.
The Holy Father also questions why modern society is repulsed by the thought of infanticide, “while becoming virtually insensitive to abortion. Maybe because in abortion you don't see the face of who will be condemned and never see the light,” he wrote.
By allowing state-sanctioned execution of the unborn, “you become blind to the right of life of another, the youngest and weakest who doesn't have a voice,” he wrote.
Pope Benedict also criticizes European lawmaker’s decision to exclude any mention of God from the new EU Constitution. “Europe has developed a culture that, in a manner unknown by humanity until now, excludes God from the public conscience,” he wrote.
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