[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: Catholic hierarchy cooperating in UK with secret access to abortion, contraception

Tue Jul 8 10:44:43 MDT 2008

*PharmFacts E-News Update -- 8 Jul 2008 AD
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http://spuc-director.blogspot.com/

    Sunday, 6 July 2008

      Catholic authorities in England and Wales co-operating with
      government in providing schoolchildren secret access to abortion
      and contraception
      <http://spuc-director.blogspot.com/2008/07/catholic-authorities-in-england-and.html>

<http://www.caffarra.it/berretta.jpg>It's good to see another 
international conference in Rome coming up on the 40th annversary of 
Humanae Vitae 
<http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/paul_vi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-vi_enc_25071968_humanae-vitae_en.html>, 
entitled "Humanae Vitae, A Topical and Prophetical (sic) Encyclical 
<http://www.eifle.org/conferences/rome2008/congress_rome.pdf>". It is 
badly needed, particularly for countries like Britain.

This international congress is important for Catholics and for 
everybody. It's especially important for the pro-life movement. As I 
have mentioned before 
<http://spuc-director.blogspot.com/2008/02/why-humanae-vitae-was-right-about.html>on 
this blog, the prophecy of Pope Paul VI regarding artificial birth 
control has been fulfilled in ways that even he did not predict. He wrote:

"Finally, careful consideration should be given to the danger of this 
power passing into the hands of those public authorities who care little 
for the precepts of the moral law. Who will blame a government which in 
its attempt to resolve the problems affecting an entire country resorts 
to the same measures as are regarded as lawful by married people in the 
solution of a particular family difficulty? Who will prevent public 
authorities from favoring those contraceptive methods which they 
consider more effective? Should they regard this as necessary, they may 
even impose their use on everyone." (Humanae Vitae 17)

Nowadays in Britain and elsewhere, the Government is "imposing" the use 
of birth control, including abortion, on families; and the Catholic 
Church authorities in England and Wales are co-operating with the 
government in imposing it in England - by welcoming 
<http://www.cesew.org.uk/standard.asp?id=159> into its schools 
Connexions 
<http://www.connexions-direct.com/index.cfm?pid=107&catalogueContentID=337&render=detailedArticle> 
whose job it is to make abortion and contraception available to 
children, without parental knowledge or consent, a point I made last 
year in an interview with Zenit 
<http://www.zenit.org/article-18935?l=english>.

As a father and a grandfather and as a Catholic I can say, without 
reservation, this is the worst thing that's happened since I got 
involved in the pro-life fight 34 years ago. By what right do Government 
and Church authorities rob parents of their God-given right to protect 
their children from such grave moral harm and from such serious risks to 
their health? By what right do their rob parents of the right to protect 
their grandchildren from being aborted?

The "lectio magistralis" is being given by Cardinal Carlo Caffarra 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Cardinal_Caffarra>, archbishop of 
Bologna (pictured above). Cardinal Caffara is a contributing author to 
Why Humanae Vitae Was Right 
<http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6PYp-RwRZQsC&pg=PA253&lpg=PA253&dq=Carlo+Caffarra+contraception&source=web&ots=eFhN7H4PMG&sig=KCvOo6nvNUMxofvI10ViboCywPI&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result>, 
edited by Janet E. Smith, which reproduced, as an article, his keynote 
address for a conference held in Rome to celebrate the 20th anniversary 
of Humanae Vitae. In her introduction to his article, Janet E. Smith 
writes: "He demonstrates that the use of contraceptives violates the 
dignity of man since it entails a rejection of the goodness of being...".

Elsewhere 
<http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=aIIfbHzuO0sC&pg=PA105&lpg=PA105&dq=Carlo+Caffarra+contraception&source=web&ots=7TD5E7cqSW&sig=Sqz4UGFJlpL9hJJLlgEjCDhM1Ks&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result>, 
Cardinal Caffara writes about the "intrinsic illicitness" of in-vitro 
fertilisation since it "establishes between the one performing the 
fertilisation and the one to be born a relationship of 'production of an 
object'".

The international congress is also being addressed by Cardinal Ennio 
Antonelli 
<http://www.vatican.va/news_services/press/documentazione/documents/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_antonelli_e_en.html>, 
the newly appointed president of the Pontifical Council for the Family 
<http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/family/index.htm>.
Posted by John Smeaton, SPUC director at 07:25 
<http://spuc-director.blogspot.com/2008/07/catholic-authorities-in-england-and.html> 
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