Spanish bishop encourages women who have aborted to receive Sacrament of Reconciliation
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Madrid, Spain, Nov 12, 2009 / 07:52 pm (CNA/Europa Press).- The secretary general of the Spanish bishops' conference, Auxiliary Bishop Juan Antonio Martinez Camino of Madrid, encouraged women who have aborted to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

During a breakfast in the Spanish capital, Bishop Martinez Camino said the Church reaches out to women who are feeling tempted to have an abortion or have already experienced this tragedy.

He then stressed that God’s mercy awaits those tormented by abortion.  “Those who have not gone to confession are encouraged to do so because God wants to offer them a solution and deep peace,” he said. The Church “defends the rights of the innocents,” and is “conscious of the problem that [abortion] entails.”

“She is not merciless towards those who fall into sin,” he continued.

Bishop Martinez Camino warned lawmakers that support of the proposed law on abortion would constitute “public sin” and would place them in an “objective state of sin.”  While “the Church cannot judge their subjectivity,” he added, those who “directly collaborate” in an abortion incur excommunication.

The bishop said lawmakers and voters must consider the issue of life above their own political party platforms and party leaders.  Those who affirm that an innocent life can be taken find themselves “in contradiction with Divine and Catholic law,” he added.

He then praised health care workers and others who have exercised their right to conscientious objection “with civic and moral courage,” and he warned against the “grave manipulation” of portraying abortion as a medical procedure, as “abortion is never a cure because pregnancy is not a disease.”

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Published by: Stephen
USA 11/14/2009 10:45 AM EST
A God of love, hope, and mercy is waiting to forgive those who have committed an abortion of their unborn child. That's why Jesus Christ instituted the Sacrament of Reconciliation. All too often we forget that the devil who encourages and coaxes us into sin in the first place is also the one who condemns us the most after a sin is committed. An all loving and mericful God is waiting for all us when we comit sin to ask for forgiveness in the Holy Sacrament of Reconciliation or better known throughout the Catholic world as Confession. Go to Confession at least once a month. God really is waiting to forgive each of us and to give us the peace of mind we are all searching for. God have mercy on us all.
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