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“Speak up for people who cannot speak for themselves. Protect the rights of all who are helpless.”
Proverbs 31:8 |
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it."
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
THESE ARE OUR "SANCTITY OF LIFE" WEEKLY BULLETIN REFLECTIONS
03.15.2020 Legal abortion strips people of their inherent right to life. Abortion tells people that it is OK to put some human lives above others, that some people are “worth more “ than others. For those who say that they care about people’s rights and “social justice issues”, we need to ask them if they support abortion . . . Abortion is the ultimate social justice issue. When we place a utilitarian rather than intrinsic value on human life, we create a system in which those with power decide on who gets to live and upon what justification those who fail to qualify may be killed. Credit: Mark Crutcher
03.08.2020 We have witnessed the endless hateful actions and heard the evil rhetoric of this political season. Candidate after candidate deceives listeners with diatribes that describe child killing as legitimate "women's health care." We witness a screaming mob on the steps of the Supreme Court waving signs that declare "Protecting Abortion Access Is a Catholic Value" and threaten justices physically should they not rule in the mob's favor.
Too many dishonest leaders have, often for years and even decades, flown under the radar, unscathed by their claims to be both christian and Catholic and, simultaneously, supporters of abortion. They have been allowed to fall back on those tired phrases of being "personally opposed to abortion" but unwilling to "impose their beliefs" on others.
We have passively allowed politicians to use their "faith" as a political tool to get elected so they can cast more votes to kill children. We can no longer deny that the floodgates of anti-child, anti-family, anti-God have been opened in our country. We must speak up. We must vote. It is incumbent upon each of us to end this evil.
Too many dishonest leaders have, often for years and even decades, flown under the radar, unscathed by their claims to be both christian and Catholic and, simultaneously, supporters of abortion. They have been allowed to fall back on those tired phrases of being "personally opposed to abortion" but unwilling to "impose their beliefs" on others.
We have passively allowed politicians to use their "faith" as a political tool to get elected so they can cast more votes to kill children. We can no longer deny that the floodgates of anti-child, anti-family, anti-God have been opened in our country. We must speak up. We must vote. It is incumbent upon each of us to end this evil.
03.01.2020 The recent "cloture" votes on two pro-life bills in the U.S. Senate make millions of Americans sick to their stomachs and exemplify the fact that we are in a spiritual war against dark forces. After refusing to be present during testimony supporting the bills, like ancient Roman emperors one Democrat Senator after another entered the chamber and gave the mockingly, callous "thumbs down" gesture and voted a loud “NO” against the "Pain-Capable Unborn Child Act" (S.3275) and the "Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act" (S.311). When the bills were defeated, and with total lack of decorum, they joyously celebrated with high-fives and laughter.
At about 20 weeks doctors begin surgeries to save babies lives. S.3275 sought to protect the lives of babies in the womb who can feel pain. S.311 did NOTHING TO RESTRICT ABORTION. It would ONLY have guaranteed that babies who survive an abortion receive medical care and don’t spend their last agonizing minutes futilely gasping for breath only to be discarded as medical waste when they die. It wasn’t a difficult bill to support. "We won't kill babies that survive an abortion." Yet, there they were, one-by-one, voting "NO!" on a bill to stop infanticide.
Speaker Pelosi recently said that for the elections, democrat candidates should coalesce around their nominee with the mantra “Unity, unity, unity.” Since unfettered child murder, even post birth and with with no limitations is a main goal of the democrats, a more accurate battle cry for her Party of Death would be “Evil, evil, evil.”
At about 20 weeks doctors begin surgeries to save babies lives. S.3275 sought to protect the lives of babies in the womb who can feel pain. S.311 did NOTHING TO RESTRICT ABORTION. It would ONLY have guaranteed that babies who survive an abortion receive medical care and don’t spend their last agonizing minutes futilely gasping for breath only to be discarded as medical waste when they die. It wasn’t a difficult bill to support. "We won't kill babies that survive an abortion." Yet, there they were, one-by-one, voting "NO!" on a bill to stop infanticide.
Speaker Pelosi recently said that for the elections, democrat candidates should coalesce around their nominee with the mantra “Unity, unity, unity.” Since unfettered child murder, even post birth and with with no limitations is a main goal of the democrats, a more accurate battle cry for her Party of Death would be “Evil, evil, evil.”
02.23.2020 Increasingly in our culture, children are not viewed as the unique gifts from God that they truly are. They are too often seen as untimely, inconvenient interruptions to the lives and plans of their parents. It is all too familiar that we hear that family circumstances preclude the birth of a baby.
The truth is, every child is created special, with awesome purpose and amazing potential. Children are the most precious and promising ingredient in our mixed up world.
Consider this: if you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had eight kids already, three of whom were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and the woman had syphilis, would you recommend that she have an abortion? If the overwhelming magnitude of ill circumstances had led in this case to following the recommendation for abortion, consider that Beethoven would not have drawn his first breath.
We would do well to remember some good advice to be found in Isaiah.
“My ways are not your ways, My thoughts are not your thoughts … for as the heavens are higher than the earth, My ways are higher than yours!”
The truth is, every child is created special, with awesome purpose and amazing potential. Children are the most precious and promising ingredient in our mixed up world.
Consider this: if you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had eight kids already, three of whom were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and the woman had syphilis, would you recommend that she have an abortion? If the overwhelming magnitude of ill circumstances had led in this case to following the recommendation for abortion, consider that Beethoven would not have drawn his first breath.
We would do well to remember some good advice to be found in Isaiah.
“My ways are not your ways, My thoughts are not your thoughts … for as the heavens are higher than the earth, My ways are higher than yours!”
02.16.2020 The awful end game when a court of men decided 47 years ago to grant property ownership of small, helpless human beings to their mothers so that they may judge them worthy of life or death is upon us. “Legally” dehumanizing these human beings was the beginning of the full-throttle of the barbarism we have now, among which is abortion doctors hoarding the tiny bodies of those they were paid to terminate. And the, unimaginable (to decent people), the grisly practice of selling the murdered babies or their body parts. For allowing these hideous practices to exist in our nation we beg forgiveness. Individually, we pray for the strength to have the courage to end our apathy and indifference to this evil and to speak up.
02.09.2020 Abortion is not "sad" and "tragic." It is monstrous and outrageous. It is not simply killing another human being. It is murder and the distiction is clear. The command from Scripture in the original language says, "You shall not murder." Exodus 20:13 The Hebrew word for "murder" literally means "the intenational, premeditated killing of another person with malice." That is a perfect description of the grisly act of abortion. It is not something to lament. It is not something a decent society should control through it's laws. It is something to work tirelessly to abolish.
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02.02.2020 After decades of defending the sanctity of human life against the culture of death and her minions in the public square, it would be easy to accept defeat and simply give up. When faced with this temptation, we must remind ourselves that we are not alone in this battle. The following quote has provided inspiration for many in the pro-life cause. "When the time comes, as it surely will, when we face that awesome moment - the final judgment - I've often thought, as Archbishop Fulton Sheen wrote, that it is a terrible moment of lonliness. You have no advocates; you are there alone standing before God - and a terror will rip your soul like nothing you can imagine. But I really think that those in the pro-life movement will not be alone. I think there'll be a chorus of voices that have never been heard in this world but are heard beautifully and clearly in the next world; and they will plead for everyone who has been in this movement. they will say to God, 'Spare him, because he loved us!'"
Congressman Henry Hyde |
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01.26.2020 A society is measured by the way it treats its young, old, helpless and ill. As Christians, we are called to minister not to murder, and make no mistake, euthanasia, deviously called "mercy killing" is murder. There have been at least 3,147 deaths from euthanasia reported worldwide. Assisted suicide is now legal in Oregon, Washington, Montana, Belgium, Luxemburg, Switzerland and the Netherlands. While the state’s ears may be closed to the evil of the "mercy killings" going on in America and the world, God’s ears are not closed. His warning for us is clear in Proverbs 21: 13, “He who closes his ears to the cry of the helpless will himself not be heard.”
01.19.2020 Those oblivious to the silent screams of 62 million preborn babies, each of whom were executed in the most heinous methods - similar to those emplyed by ISIS, do not hear the agonizing screams because they are deaf, but because they plug their ears with their fingers.
01.12.2020 It can take years to correct social injustice ---the shameful fact of slavery serving as a prime example. While our generation may not see the end of abortion, the next generation is becoming increasingly pro-life and it is vitally important that we raise pro-life children. Teaching children to have a pro-life attitude is an indispensable antidote to today's selfish, "me-first" society, with many people more concerned about pleasure or material possessions than the inherent value and dignity of every human life. We should be teaching them---at each opportunity---that all human beings, at all stages of development from fertilization to life's natural end should be protected, cherished, respected, and loved at all times.
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Indeed, some people believe that hastening a person’s death means that he will die “with dignity.” The lie is that we must die to retain our dignity. And it is a lie from the pits of hell because we all have inherent dignity given to us by God, and being injured, ill, or near death neither reduces nor degrades our dignity. Furthermore, voluntary euthanasia is a slippery slope which leads to the the next stage - involuntary euthanasia or killing.
Assisted suicide means administering lethal overdoses or otherwise causing to die those whose lives are judged useless or lacking in quality. Life must be valued from conception to natural death. Life is worth defending whether in the womb or in the nursing home. |
01.05.2020 When it comes to abortion the first thing to be considered is the horrific body count. No other grave injustice in America, or in the world, has claimed as many lives. In the United States over 60 million human beings have been put to death since 1973. No other group of people perishes at the rate of 3000 per day as do the unborn. Moreover, no other group—even those who are victimized and oppressed—are formally declared by law to be “non-persons.” Only the unborn have been systematically and legally cast out of the human community. For the purposes of their right-to-life the unborn are reduced to the level of a thing; even worse than a thing, they are reduced to trash, their bodies treated as so much waste or sold for scientific research.
The unborn are the most oppressed group in America. Their oppression should shake us to the core of our souls as only these totally innocent persons are subjected to a violent obliteration protected by law. The injustice of abortion is staggering.
The unborn are the most oppressed group in America. Their oppression should shake us to the core of our souls as only these totally innocent persons are subjected to a violent obliteration protected by law. The injustice of abortion is staggering.