Holy See declares Morning-After Pill an attack on the unborn!

Hey!

Miriam Defensor Santiago!

Fr. Joel Tabora!

Fr. Joaquin Bernas!

MST Theologians!

Ateneo "professors" when some are mere clerks!

Are you reading this???

From Zenit.

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The so-called Morning After Pill, often called “emergency contraception” by the medical establishment, is not a “life-saving commodity,” the head of the Holy See delegation told the 66th World Health Assembly in Geneva this week. Such drugs are in reality “a direct attack” on the life of the unborn child.  [Guess the arrogant Jesuit in Davao and the neurotic senator will still beg to disagree!]

In his address, Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski responded to the World Health Organization’s Resolution EB132.R4, which urges member states to improve the quality, supply, and use of 13 “life-saving commodities.”  [it kills the unborn by a woman who is not needing a life saving commodity!  The woman just had sex and does not even intend to have a baby!  Sheesh!]

The list includes “emergency contraception.”

Archbishop Zimowski said the Holy See “strongly agrees with the need to achieve further reductions in the loss of life and prevention of illness through increased access to inexpensive interventions” but insisted that they must all be “respectful of the life and dignity of all mothers and children at all stages of life, from conception to natural death.”  [conception to natural death.  always remember that!]

While some of the WHO’s recommendations, he said, “are truly life-saving, that of ‘emergency contraception’ can hardly be labeled as such since it is well known that, when conception already has occurred, certain substances used in ‘emergency contraception’ produce an abortifacient effect.”  [ And yet the arrogant Jesuit in Davao and the neurotic senator will still beg to disagree!]

“For my delegation, it is totally unacceptable to refer to a medical product that constitutes a direct attack on the life of the child in utero as a ‘life-saving commodity’ and, much worse, to encourage ‘increasing use of such substances in all parts of the world,’” he said.

Patrick Buckley, the international affairs officer of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, commented that the intervention was well placed.

The World Health Assembly is the annual general meeting of the World Health Organization and is discussing universal health coverage, women and children’s health, and monitoring the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals, [which I call Millenial DEATH Goals!] all of which have relevance to the issue of abortion and artificial contraception.

Earlier this year, abortion advocates used the three-day Global Maternal Health Conference in Tanzania to promote the idea of universal coverage for abortion as part of the MDGs.

Buckley said, “It is good to hear the Holy See speaking out boldly on this fundamental issue. Women are entitled to the truth - and the Catholic Church is serving the best interests of women, children and families worldwide, when it proclaims the truth fearlessly on abortion and abortifacient products in world assemblies.”  [Do you think that arrogant Jesuit in Davao and the neurotic senator serves the best interest of families and women?  Nah!  Both are attention hungry. period.]

In another intervention, Jeanne Head, R.N., National Right to Life vice-president for international affairs and UN representative said that women, especially in the developing world, “face numerous risks with abortion, legal or illegal.”

“Yet some in the international community have focused their resources primarily on legalizing abortion at the expense of women’s lives and health,” she said.

In a submission to the meeting, Scott Fischbach of Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life Global Outreach, said, “The evidence is overwhelming: Abortion is dangerous for women. Abortion is by its very nature a violent and damaging procedure.”  [Yet Risa "the Veteran Loser" Hontiveros, still pushes to legalize abortion here in the country.  Thank God for the constitutional ban!  By the way, is there a way to ban Veteran Losers in Senatorial Elections?]

Speaking for a coalition of international pro-life groups, Fischbach said, “We call upon the WHA to acknowledge that abortion needlessly puts women at serious risk, both physically and psychologically. We urge the World Health Assembly to adopt measures that protect women from abortion and improve women’s health care.”


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Do you think the arrogant Jesuit in Davao and the neurotic senator will think that pills are abortifacients?

Do you think the arrogant Jesuit in Davao and the neurotic senator will still think that pills promote abortion?

No.

They will still brandish their geniuses and their infallible consciences as the be-all and end-all to all debates.

If you have a screwed up conscience and a spaghetti wired brain like that arrogant Jesuit in Davao and the neurotic senator, then you have a better chance of winning the lottery than getting a REAL CATHOLIC answer from those two!

Not even a papal statement about this issue could sway those two.

Oh sorry.  I forgot, Your Holiness.  Those two disregarded you already.

Oh well.  Mandaluyong residents...sa looban!

A Warning from an American TPC Reader

from agellius!

You got it exactly right. We (I'm American) have to import foreign workers to take care of our elderly because the elderly did not have enough children to take care of them in their old age. (Don't get me wrong, we love Filipinos.)

Also, Paul VI in Humanae Vitae was right: Once you accept birth control you embark on a slippery slope leading to promiscuity, extramarital pregnancies, divorce and abortion, not to mention gay marriage. When marriage stops being about children, you no longer have any basis for denying marriage to gays.

DON'T TAKE THE PATH WE TOOK! TURN BACK WHILE THERE'S STILL TIME!

Thank you for your trust and for sharing the views of a humane society!

The evidence weighs heavily against those pushing for contraception who kept denying the abortion connection.

It's all double speak.

These Filipino politicians are selling our souls to the devil.

Well, I guess they do not believe they have a soul anyway.

Pfft!

The irony of those against Paul VI

From Fr. Rolando de la Rosa, OP

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FORTY-FOUR years ago, Pope Paul VI prophesied the horrible effects of contraception to marriage, family, the individual, and society. It was a Cassandra prophecy: Fated to be right, but never heeded.  [Someone told me before that if we elect the bald one, we would have a problem with contraception.  Guess he was right too!]

In his encyclical Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI warned that a contraceptive mentality would lead to the prevalence of divorce, unmitigated premarital sex, the lowering of moral standards among the youth, the phenomenal increase in the number of children born out of wedlock, and rapid decrease of population in countries advocating contraception. He also prophesied that the pervasive use of contraception would diminish our innate sense of responsibility and commitment. Finally, he predicted that contraception would lead to the legalization of abortion.

The Pope’s prophecy is now a reality in many contraceptive-minded countries. Nearly all couples in these countries believe that their marriage is viable only as long as they have no children. The divorce rate is consistently rising. Abortion is so rampant that the disposal of aborted fetus has become a problem. Also, the number of unwed mothers (by choice) has phenomenally increased. With easy access to birth control pills and gadgets, consequence-less sex is now a fad among the youth because it does not entail any responsibility or commitment.  [And the pro-contraception people call the practice of no contraception going back to the Dark Ages!]

Sex without procreation gave way to its corollary: procreation without sex. Sexless procreation is in vogue now: test-tube babies, artificial placentas, surrogate mothers, artificial insemination, etc. Ironically, those countries that aggressively limited the possibility of procreation are now desperately inventing means to procreate even without sex.

Drumbeaters for contraception have recently found another potent way of advertising it: by scaring people with the dangers of AIDS, the doomsday scenario of overpopulation, and linking contraception with women’s reproductive health. [how can it be reproductive when you are preventing reproduction!]

We sometimes regard the attempts of the Church to adapt her life to the exigencies of modern times as a way of compromise, a search for a soft, convenient, and comfortable gospel. Thus, when Humanae Vitae was published, people speculated that it would contain modernized, streamlined, less demanding doctrine on birth regulation. Many hoped that perhaps the Church had reconsidered its traditional stand, and would come up with a more lenient position.

To their dismay, [and a lot of Catholic cardinals, bishops and like-minded modernist theologians!] the Church defied all predictions and reaffirmed instead her traditional teaching on marriage, sex, and the value of human life.

Undoubtedly, Pope Paul VI did not bring peace to many couples. In fact, he destroyed the peace that they cherished – a peace based on the belief that whatever is legal is also moral, or that the easiest and most convenient solution to a problem is the best solution. [I call it: the INSTANT NOODLE solution.  People would rather pour hot water than cook food.  Easy, hassle free.] Humanae Vitae has proven that the Church does not conform to the majority opinion but to the Word of God, and the Pope must proclaim the truth even when it contradicts the current of the times.

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You may weave the most intricate web of conspiracy theories you may have against Paul VI...

he was also a Mason like Annibale...

...he was drugged for so many years and an actor replaced him...
...he was an apostate who made an apostate Mass...

Call him whatever you want.

Sure he has his flaws in his style of governance.

All popes get that kind of evaluation! Was Bl. John Paul's style of travel everywhere, interview here and there and leave the Vatican to a group of power hungry cardinals who issue their own decrees left and right?

Go and criticize Paul VI.

But one thing is for sure.

He "poped" at the right place and at the right time.

Even if the most liberal, and noisiest cardinals were almost at his neck...

Peter spoke and put his foot forward, and BOOM!

We have Humane Vitae.

The greatest legacy of Paul VI.

And ironically, even the most rabid, sedevacantists praise Paul VI for issuing this great encyclical.

Paul VI is smiling and "whispering" at his tomb at St. Peter's right now:

"Told you so."

Great article from Fr. de la Rosa!

Controversy at the Pontifical Academy of Life

From the Vatican Insider

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A small minority [Huh?  Sounds like an oxymoron.  Large minority?  They won't be a minority anymore if they are large.]  of the Pontifical Academy for Life’s (PAV) members has, for years, contested any initiative aimed at encouraging dialogue with the world of science and research, making it difficult for the Holy See’s bioethical “think tank” to carry on its mission. This is what has emerged from a series of interviews between the Vatican Insider and a number of sources within the Academy who have asked to remain anonymous because they are not authorised to speak about internal issues.

A series of internal disputes that have continued over the past few months have culminated in Professor Josef Seifert’s request for the resignation of the Academy’s President, Mgr. Ignacio Carrasco de Paula and a protest organised by some of the Academy’s members which will reach “the highest levels”.

The activities organised by the Academy have recently ended up in the crosshairs of some of its members on more than one occasion: In February, a conference on infertility treatment was contested because it was said to have expressed stances that were not in line with Catholic doctrine; a month later, the Pontifical Academy cancelled the international scientific conference on adult stem cells. Officially, the decision was down to insufficient financial coverage of the event but it came after harsh contestations by some sectors of the pro-life movement. But problems had already arisen in the past, for example with the letter sent by the then president Mgr. Rino Fisichella on the abortion undergone by a young girl who was raped in Brazil. Then there was the controversy over the lawfulness of transplants and the definition of cerebral death.

Sources say there is a small group of pro-life activists that has never confronted the Academy’s leadership but has always preferred to speak to the press or address its criticisms of the Academy’s activities to high authorities.

“These individuals go behind people’s backs; the minute something happens, they speak to the high authorities,” a core member of the Academy said. “We have not received anything official from these people. We have only received some public communications. They did not write to us to ask for clarifications,” another person from the Academy, who is aware of the issue, explained.  [There is a reason why some people resort to this way.  With this kind of a grey-area environment inside the Academy, and if you are staunchly pro-life, I'd do this same route myself.  I seriously believe that these pro-life individuals used the normal course before:  they approached the officials of the Academy.  But, just like the "noted" line of Sen. Pangilinan during the canvassing of the 2004 presidential election ballots, which we all know was seriously marred in cheating controversy, you'd go the other way just to send the message out.]

According to sources problems have arisen as a result of the lack of a deeper understanding of the nature of the Pontifical Academy for Life: “Is it an independent Academy offering freedom of study and the possibility to invite individuals with whom we disagree or is it a sort of “super pro-life movement”? According to the source, the PAV’s Statutes guarantee its autonomy: “As an Academy it is possible we may make mistakes. Not if our only task is to affirm Catholic doctrine.”  [Do I smell academic freedom even if it goes against Catholic doctrine somewhere here?]

A top representative of the institution stressed that the Academy’s official positions “can be found in our publications,” not in the comments made by speakers invited to events organised by PAV.

The situation has become far more complex because the “Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith tends to consider us an extension of it in the field of bioethics.”

An internal source of PAV emphasised that it is now up to the Vatican authorities, the Pope, the Secretariat of State and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, to clear up this “ambiguity” regarding the Academy’s nature and function.

One of the sources stressed that “We have always defended life from conception to natural death and we continue to do so. We do the same work as these pro-lifers whose intentions are good but more dialogue is needed and they make statements that are unfounded. We are always open to dialogue with everyone; our task is a call for dialogue with science. Even Saint Paul spoke to pagans and non-believers at the Aeropagus in Athens.”  [Hmmm...some pro-lifers are a bit of a hot-head, are they?]

In terms of the positions taken by the protesters, PAV stressed that “an Academy is not a lobbying association” neither do those who express constant disagreement “have the right to be academics”: “It is the Holy Father who calls individuals to this task. It is not a right or a prize.”

Members of the Academy also emphasised that - in contrast to Seifert’s statement - the decision to cancel the scientific conference on stem cells was taken “completely independently” despite the disagreement of other organisers (The Jerome Lejeune Foundation in Paris and the International Federation of Catholic Medical Associations) but it is difficult to say whether the event will be held at some other time in the future.

There has been “no reaction” to the request for the resignations of the Academy’s leaders; “the question remains in the hands of the superiors.”


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I'll stay glued on this one and maybe some of my contacts in Rome can chime in on this.

Commemorating Humanae Vitae

From the CBCP Episcopal Commission on Family and Life

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Dear Family and Life Warriors,

In the 60’s, due to the sexual revolution, problems of overpopulation and economics had arisen, making it needful for Paul Paul VI to address the issues of birth control. Pope Paul VI took a stand on July 25, 1968 in an encyclical known as Humanae Vitae (Of Human Life).

[This year, we will be celebrating the 43rd anniversary of Humanae Vitae (HV) with various activities in the Catholic Church, beginning tomorrow July 19, (Schedules as outlined further below this page,
after the highlights of HV)]

Highlights of HV are as follows:
1) "Marriage and conjugal love are by their nature ordained toward the begetting and educating of children. Children are really the supreme gift of marriage and contribute very substantially to the welfare of their parents."

2) “Married love is a very special form of personal friendship in which husband and wife generously share everything, without undue reservations or selfish calculations. Whoever truly loves his marriage
partner loves not only for what he receives, but for the partner's self, rejoicing that he can enrich his partner with the gift of himself."

3) “… one is not the master of the sources of life but rather the minister of the design established by the Creator. Just as man does not have unlimited dominion over his body in general, so also, and
with more particular reason, he has no such dominion over his specifically sexual faculties, for these are concerned by their very nature with the generation of life, of which God is the source.”

4) It is held that the sexual act must "retain its intrinsic relationship to the procreation of human life", and the "direct interruption of the generative process already begun" is unlawful.  Abortion, even for therapeutic reasons, is absolutely forbidden, as is sterilization, even if temporary. Similarly, every action specifically intended to prevent procreation is forbidden. All these are held to directly contradict the moral order.

5) Therapeutic means which induce infertility are allowed, if they are not specifically intended to induce infertility. Natural Family Planning are allowed, since they take advantage of "a faculty provided by nature."

6) The dangers of artificial methods of contraception are outlined: by allowing sex without consequences, moral standards would fall.

Our Mother Church will celebrate HV's 43rd year, with the following activities:

A. July 19, simultaneous CBCP Humane Vitae Forums at the Adamson University Gym and USTChapel. 2PM;

B. July 25:
1) 7AM Mass by Bp Tobias, at the St Peter's Church in Commonwealth Ave, QC. The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed after until 5PM;

2) 9AM Mass by Bp Pabillo, in Santuario de San Jose, Greenhills to be followed by a Soul of the State of the Nation Address at the Club Filipino.

LET THIS BE A WEEK OF PRAYER AND FASTING FOR THE ENLIGHTENMENT OF OUR LEGISLATORS AGAINST THE ANTI-LIFE BILLS (RH AND DIVORCE).

May God, the Author of life, bless all our efforts. And may Mary, Queen of the Family and Mediatrix of All Grace, protect all human life.


Blessings and prayers,

Rev. Fr. Melvin Castro

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Just one reaction...

The Vincentians are not against HUMANAE VITAE?!?!?!

SVST is this true?!?!?!