So that all may understand what Pope Francis is reported to have done for the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy, here is the current practice in the Church.
Abortion that is deliberately procured (in other words: asked for by a woman who knows that it is gravely wrong and that it can get her separated from the life of the Church) or that is deliberately performed on another results in “excommunication latae sententiae”…an archaic way of saying: By your thoughtless and heartless act, you have separated yourself from the Body of Christ. Nobody did this to you. You did it to yourself.
That is how seriously the Church takes the UNJUST AND EVIL TERMINATION of human life.
Of course the Church understands the difficulty that women sometimes find themselves in….but no difficulty is ever so that it can justify terminating life in the womb.
It is a RESERVED SIN…which means that it takes a bishop to absolve it in the Sacrament of Penance.
In actual practice, bishops will grant some, if not all of their priests, the “faculties” (read: powers) to forgive these sins in his behalf.
During the Jubilee Year of Mercy, it seems that Pope Francis is minded on granting the faculty to all priests.
Does this make abortion any more benign? IT CAN NEVER BE BENIGN…and that is why Pope Francis’ gesture means a lot.
It confronts the horror of the sin of abortion with the available mercy of God through the sacrament of penance, that can now, for such sins, be administered through the ministry of a priest, the minister of the church.
So far from saying that abortion is not as bad as it has been made of, by the Church, Pope Francis is actually saying: SEE HOW GREAT THE MERCY OF GOD IS THAT SUCH A HORRIBLE THING AS ABORTION FINDS FORGIVENESS IN HIS GENTLE HEART when one of course is truly penitent. –FR. RANHILIO CALLANGAN AQUINO
– See more at: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/535441/opinion/abortion-remains-the-terrible-thing-it-is-so-pope-francis-gesture-means-a-lot#sthash.5FzUlNuQ.dpuf
March –
IT’S WOMEN’S MONTH!
“Respect and support women
every day of the year/s!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the recommendations of the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry
against serious violations of protocols of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association.
Accept the National Unity Government (NUG)
of Myanmar. Reject Military!
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Monthly Observances:
Women’s Role in History Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 1: Environmental Week;
Women’s Week
Week 3: Philippine Industry and “
Made-in-the-Philippines Products Week
Last Week: Protection and Gender-Fair Treatment
of the Girl Child Week
Daily Observances:
March 8: Women’s Rights and
International Peace Day;
National Women’s Day
March 4: Employee Appreciation Day
March 15: World Consumer Rights Day
March 18: Global Recycling Day
March 21: International Day for the Elimination
of Racial Discrimination
March 23: International Day for the Right to the Truth
Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations
and for the Dignity of Victims
March 25: International Day of Remembrance of the
Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
March 27: Earth Hour
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