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
September 18 –
International Equal Pay Day
“Increase wages now,
more than other cost items.
For widespread, practical equality!”
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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September –
5 Sept – Intl Day of Charity
7 Sept – Intl Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies
8 Sept – International Literacy Day
12 Sept – United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation
15 Sept – International Day of Democracy
16 Sept – International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
17 Sept – World Patient Safety Day
18 Sept – International Equal Pay Day
21 Sept – International Day of Peace
26 Sept – International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
27 Sept – World Tourism Day
28 Sept – International Day for Universal Access to Information
29 Sept – International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste
30 Sept – World Maritime Day
Monthly Observances:
Health, Safety and Sanitation Month
National Clean-up Month
Civil Service Month
National Peace Consciousness Month
Social Security Month
Rule of Law Month
National Teachers’ Month (Sept 5-Oct 4)
Weekly Observances:
Sept 17 – 23:
World Clean and Green Week
Week 2: Education Week
Week 4: Medicine Week
Last Week: National Family Week
Daily Observances:
Third Saturday:
International Coastal Clean-up Day
Third Monday: World Health Day
Last Friday: National Maritime Day
Sept 8: National Literacy Day
Sept 15: Philippine Medicine Day
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