By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman
BURGOS, Spain, July 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Archbishop of Burgos, Francisco Gil Hellín, has issued a call to Spanish Catholics to resist the country’s new abortion law, which he says is no law at all.
In a statement published on the bishops’ Catholic Information Service, Gil Hellín laments the recent promulgation of the law, an “evil law which is directly opposed to right reason and the most elemental justice. Such is the law that establishes that the Spanish have the right to kill the unborn, as long as they do it before 14 weeks.”
March 23, 2010 (pop.org) – Introduction: Only a few days before he died, Father Paul Marx returned to the topic that had so often occupied him during his long decades as a pro-life missionary - namely, the great encyclical Humanae Vitae. He sent this short article, in which he underlines the accuracy of Pope Paul VI’s predictions about what would happen, if contraception became prevalent in society. We send it out now both because it contains timeless truths, and also to honor our Founder and long-time Chairman, Fr. Marx, who has gone to be with the Father.
Anti-abortion march attracts thousands
‘The hands of South Africa’s lawmakers are dripping with blood.’ said Archbishop Buti Tlhagale to more than 2,000 anti-abortionists who marched on Saturday 13 March with the Archbishop from the Cathedral of Christ the King to Constitution Hill where officials from the Department of Health accepted a petition addressed to the Minister of Health calling for an end to abortion.
When: Saturday 31 July 2010
Where: Salesian Institute Chapel, Cnr. Somerset Rd & Chiappini St , Green Point
Time: 09:30 –11.30
We will process prayerfully to the Marie Stopes Abortion Centre at 91 Bree Street Cape Town, with full permission from the City Council
Led By: Fr Andrew Cox
Times (approx) are as follows:
09.30am : Holy Sacrifice of the Mass celebrated at Salesian Institute Chapel
10.00am : Prayerful and peaceful procession to Marie Stopes, Bree Street, processing with an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Holy Rosary and Hymns
11.30am : Return Procession with Prayers and Hymns, ending with Benediction at 12pm
After Mass the Blessed Sacrament will be exposed for adoration, and some people will stay to adore the Blessed Sacrament.
Please join us – you really do make all the difference. And try to bring someone with you!
For further Information Contact The Helpers of God’s Precious Infants:
Telephone: 021-8520473 or 0822550473
P.O.Box 1601, Cape Town, 8000
Or see our website for more information about the Helpers and for a schedule of forthcoming vigils www.icon.co.za/~host/helpers/index.htm or email helpers@telkomsa.net
“Any country that accepts abortion is the poorest of the poor”
Mother Teresa
Cheryllyn Dudley of the ACPD is currently proposing amendments to South Africa’s Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act of 1996. The aim of the amendment is to protect the rights of women and children who are faced with the choice of terminating pregnancy.
The Bill proposes that the 1996 law be amended “so as to ensure a woman or child is able to make a fully informed choice regarding the termination of her pregnancy.”
Though she is known as the “Queen of the Americas”, she has extended her influence to every continent through her servants in the pro-life cause, bearing the message of love and life to all nations that have succumbed to the demonic influence of human sacrifice. Only through the Heart of a Mother, so benevolent and powerful, can we hope to achieve our ends. - Fr. Paul Marx
Holy Mother, we pray to your Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart for all mothers and all unborn children that they may have life here on earth and, by the most Precious Blood shed by your Son, that they may have eternal life with Him in heaven. We also pray to your Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart for all abortionists and all abortion supporters that they may be converted and accept your Son, Jesus Christ, as their Lord and Saviour. Defend all of your children in the battle against Satan and all evil spirits in this present darkness. AMEN.
While the world is increasingly caught up in the quest for pleasure and hedonism, we have become inured to the reality of an evil unprecedented in the history of humanity – legalized abortion.
Abortion is the murder of the innocent, a sin crying out to Heaven for vengeance. We are defying the laws of our Creator! The extent of this veritable holocaust to the powers of evil is difficult to comprehend: over 50 million helpless victims world-wide every year.
South Africa is now on this same course. Let us storm Heaven for mercy from God so that more enlightened knowledge prevails with the most powerful means we have at our disposal, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass!
Under the patronage of Our Lady of Guadalupe you are asked to have a Mass offered annually on the date of your birth, which will ensure that frequent Masses will be said for all babies threatened by abortion in this country.
If you would like to participate in this crusade, please give your name, address, telephone No, as well as your day and month of birth. We will send you a timely reminder to arrange with a priest to have your Mass offered.
The stipend payable should be arranged with your priest. You can, if you wish, state as the intention of the Mass ‘for all babies threatened by abortion and their mothers’, or, ‘for the right of children to be born’ or ‘for the conversion of mothers considering abortion, abortion providers and the Government’ or similar.
Just as Holy Mary of Guadalupe extinguished human sacrifice in the Aztec world of the sixteenth century, standing for life and offering the abundant new life won by the self-sacrifice of her Son, so too can she be importuned to end the sacrifice of millions of babies in our own world to-day. It is altogether appropriate that she become the focus of our prayers on behalf of these innocents.
- Janet Barber I.H.M.
In order to argue against abortion it is necessary to show that the embryo/foetus has moral status; in other words that it is the type of being which is morally significant and should not be killed unjustifiably. Human infants after birth are generally accepted to be these types of being.
If we proceed from the assumption that, after birth, human infants are beings with moral status (who therefore enjoy a right to life), the onus is on pro-abortion advocates to show how the nature of a newborn infant is different from the foetus before birth;
by Fr. Benedict Groeschel
I knew it would be a moving scene-and it was. They sat quietly praying the
rosary in the middle of the wide driveway. The elderly bishop looked like he
came out of a Norman Rockwell painting, while the young friar with him
resembled a figure in a Giotto fresco in the medieval Basilica of St. Francis.
Every demonstration has a sense of drama – a clash of ideas-people dedicated
to opposing points of view and holding them with real emotion.
