ROME -- The pope's vicar for Rome said Tuesday that the Roman Catholic Church will not mount a futile campaign to overturn laws permitting abortion, despite criticism in the book by Pope Benedict XVI that Europe has failed to protect its "youngest and weakest." Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the pope's vicar for Rome, told a panel discussion at the book launch that the Catholic Church wasn't about to launch a campaign to overturn laws permitting abortion, since it wouldn't succeed. "Concerning abortion legislation, beyond the clear moral judgment of the church, it cannot set aside the foreseeable results that an action like this could have. This is fairly obvious and realistic," Ruini said.
Editor's note: So the Roman Catholic Church has no intention of demanding civil officials obey the commandment 'Thou shalt not kill,' because, as Ruini says, it is 'fairly obvious and realistic' it wouldn't succeed? Such a defeatist mentality only serves to exemplify the "great gulf" between Catholicism and Christianity. Christians are commanded to
Preach The Word; "be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine." When calling baby murdering sinners to turn from their damnable crimes and obey the commandments, the words 'fairly obvious and realistic it wouldn't succeed' is not in the Christian vocabulary! --Jim Rudd)
Posted by Editor at June 24, 2005 11:10 AM
