Friday, June 5, 2009

U. S. Conference of (Roman Catholic) Bishops

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U.S. Bishops Express ‘Profound Regret’ about Shooting Death of Abortion Doctor


WASHINGTON—Speaking on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia, chairman of the bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, expressed profound regret upon learning of the shooting death of abortion doctor George Tiller.

"Our bishops' conference and all its members have repeatedly and publicly denounced all forms of violence in our society, including abortion as well as the misguided resort to violence by anyone opposed to abortion," Cardinal Rigali said. "Such killing is the opposite of everything we stand for, and everything we want our culture to stand for: respect for the life of each and every human being from its beginning to its natural end. We pray for Dr. Tiller and his family."


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Most Reverend Michael O. Jackels
Diocese of Wichita
Chancery Office
424 North Broadway
Wichita, KS 67202

http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/06/24/more-child-rape-victims-for-anti-choicers-to-torment/

5 comments:

Ted Michael Morgan said...

http://civilliberty.about.com/od/abortion/tp/abortionmyths.htm

Ted Michael Morgan said...

When you think about it, late-term abortions should be no worse in the eyes of anti-abortion fanatics than first-term abortions. If anything, late-term abortions should be less offensive, since they’re so often performed in order to save a woman from having to carry a fetus to term who has one of the following horrific conditions (look them up if you’re not the squeamish type):

Anencephaly
Trisomy 13
Trisomy 18
Trisomy 21
Polycystic kidney disease
Spina bifida
Hydrocephalus
Potter’s syndrome
Lethal dwarfism
Holoprosencephaly
Anterior and posterior encephalocele
Non-immune hydrops

Ted Michael Morgan said...

Referemce for the preceding post:

http://www.appletreeblog.com/?cat=53

Ted Michael Morgan said...

Makes you wonder why decent people support these clerics. It really does make you wonder why decent people would pay for these nuts to rant.

Ted Michael Morgan said...

View hate monger priest on the murder of Dr. Tiller:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDLN0PowN1Y&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eappletreeblog%2Ecom%2F%3Fp%3D6381&feature=player_embedded

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"I suggested that what we today should regard as God is the ongoing creativity in the universe - the bringing (or coming) into being of what is genuinely new, something transformative; …

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