Catholic Fire

"We not only take care of the earth, but we must respect the other, other human beings...only in absolute respect of other (humans)...can we make progress." ~ Pope Benedict XVI

As God recognized each of us before we were born, and called us by name, so too may we recognize the value of each human life and pledge ourselves to continue to defend and nurture God's greatest gift to us. -- NCCB 1992 Respect Life Manual

"Rescue those who are unjustly sentenced to death; don't stand back and let them die." ~ Proverbs 24: 11

C.S. Lewis must have had a premonition of our pro-abortion politicians (Giuliani, Kennedy, Obama, Kerry) when he wrote this in "The Screwtape Letters". "The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid 'dens of crime' that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern."

"Yes, abortion and contraception are linked. They are linked with each other because they are linked with many other evils: the disconnection of freedom from truth. a relativistic view of morality, a positivistic view of law, a culture of hedonism, and many other problems. What lies at the solution to these problems is to rediscover the dominion of God." ~ Fr. Frank Pavone, Priests for Life

“No group of people is in more serious danger than the boys and girls in the womb. 'If someone…sees a brother in need and refuses him compassion, how can the love of God remain in Him?'(1 John 3:17).” ~Priests for Life newsletter, March-April 2007 Vol. 17.

"You see this beautiful form of a darling baby just floating around… Eventually, you really can't see the arms and legs anymore, of course, because it's being pulled apart in that particular procedure. So now you're just looking at stuff floating, where a minute ago you were looking at a baby. "And it is a baby, and life does begin at conception." ~ Lynne Jackson , great, great granddaughter of Dred Scott , a black slave who in March 1856 was judged by the Supreme Court to be less than a person

”When a woman has an abortion she will experience the profound effects of this act for the rest of her life. But did you know that fathers of aborted babies can suffer the same kinds of emotional stress? It is the father who often cries…HIDDEN TEARS.” From Hidden Tears, a pamphlet by Lindy Pierce

. “The eugenic policies of the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, appear to be alive and well and still directed at black women." “The abortion industry purposefully targets the African American community. The question is why? The abortion industry places abortion clinics in our minority and poor neighborhoods to “coax us” into thinking abortion is the best answer — the only answer to an unwanted or unplanned pregnancy — and we ask why?" “Black women don’t have to kill our children to have productive, successful lives. Instead of embracing the ‘right to kill’ our children in the name of reproductive choice, we should be working to ensure that each and every African American child is given every opportunity—to experience life—to prove herself/himself—to become part of our rich cultural heritage—to change the world—and maybe also to save it.” ~ Day Gardner, president of National Black Pro-Life Union

"The decision to abort is, in the majority of cases, prey of great loneliness and suffering. A child who at first seems to be a problem often becomes a solution to their lives. Many women who abort feel, later, that if they could turn back they would avoid this mistaken act. Let them open up to someone, and reflect, in conversation, on the gravity of their decision. " "The struggle for life, for dignifying every human life, is one of the most noble tasks of civilization. … The Church will remain faithful to its mission of proclaiming the gospel of life in fullness and denouncing threats against life." ~ The Portuguese Bishops, February 15, 2007