Cardinal Canizares slams Spanish abortion law
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Aranjuez, Spain, Jul 21, 2009 / 06:14 pm (CNA).- The prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments, Cardinal Antonio Canizares, asserted on Monday that Spain’s laws, which “must protect the defenseless, are being used today to eliminate those who are weak, innocent and defenseless.”
 
During remarks at King Juan Carlos University, Cardinal Canizares said, “Medicine must be for curing and not for killing.  Laws must serve to protect the defenseless but they are being used to kill these human beings.  The present situation reminds us precisely of the gravity of abortion, a reality that reflects so many things. 

“Without a doubt nothing else more clearly manifests the crisis of humanity we are suffering,” he said.
 
Abortion is a “very grave” problem, he said, and humanity needs to be aware that the greatest crisis we are suffering is the “47 million legal abortions” that, according to the World Organization of Health, take place each year. “This is something unprecedented in the history of humanity,” the cardinal noted.
 
Regarding the question of the excommunication of health care workers who perform abortions, Cardinal Canizares reminded that there is such a thing as “immediate excommunication.”  “This practice is a crime, the killing of a human life, an innocent, weak and defenseless human being.  Is there any other greater atrocity?” he asked.

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Published by: catherine KENNEDY
melbourne AUSTRALIA 07/24/2009 03:44 AM EST
Good on you your Emimence Cardinal Antonio Canizares see you have the heart too, the courage to say and call it as it is!
no phony words, platitudes nor double speak from you
just clear enunciation of the true position re one of the tenets of the one true faith the one true church
life is never ever just for the privileged, the planned,the perfect
thanks ie gracie tanto for standing up for the innocent vioceless defenceless unborn our future the next generation
bet if those unborn could speak they would ALL thank you too so much for trying to protect them from the scourge of sbortion
You should be proud YOUR EMINENCE you have done so much good with what you have just said SO PLEASE keep up the good work
pro life work is nevEr over until all abortions cease
wouldnt that be a great day for all so until then pro life speakers for the cause must never desist simple as that!
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Published by: lome
SJCA. USA 07/24/2009 12:48 AM EST
"Our hearts are torn because of the wanton murder of the young by evil man. Abortion, My children, is murder, the most foulest of deeds, that is punishable by death! And what is worse than death of the soul?
"I say unto you, as your Mother, that any man or woman who performs or takes part of this abomination of the murder of the unborn shall be given a heavy penance upon earth, or if this penance is not given upon earth, that person found guilty in the eyes of his God shall suffer eternal damnation in the fires of hell." - Our Lady of the Roses, December 28, 1976

"For that one reason among many, the United States will suffer unless there is placed into your government a group that fears the Lord if they cannot love the Lord. They will fear Him and find measures to stop the slaughter of the unborn." - Our Lady of the Roses, April 14, 1984

"The spirit of life is breathed into the creation of the Eternal Father at the precise moment of infiltration of conception. At the exact moment of the infiltration of conception, life begins. Therefore, you destroy a creation of the Eternal Father; and as such, you will condemn yourselves to eternal damnation!" - Our Lady of the Roses, May 10, 1972
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