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Outrage seems insufficient.
Mar. 6th, 2009 06:02 pmBrazilian Archbishop declares that anyone involved in giving a particular abortion would be excommunicated.
The abortion in question is of the twins being carried by a nine year old girl who had been raped by her stepfather since she was six, and which pregnancy was practically guaranteed to kill her.
Christian love and charity, suck it up.
Note also that there is no mention of the stepfather being excommunicated, making the priorities involved quite clear.
It has also been pointed out that there is a ‘loophole’ in Dogma, to the effect that an abortion may only be carried out if not doing so would soon result in the death of the mother. I dunno, you think a nine year old girl with twins might qualify? Because the report says that the Holy and Compassionate Mother Church didn't think so, attempting to block the abortion anyway.
It has yet further been said that the excommunications were of the sort that merely participating in the procedure was sufficient, and that a properly delegated priest or higher could reverse it. In which case: if it was determined that the procedure wasn't excommunication-worthy ex post facto, then surely the un-excommunication must be retroactive? But regardless, the Archbishop is talking about it in the future tense. To him, this is not something which is a legalistic formalism, this is something which is yet to be done, and it will be done, and he is going to make sure that it is done. But not for the man who raped a nine year old girl and got her pregnant. This is not, obviously, nearly as bad a crime against God and Man as is saving a little girl's life.
You want me to believe that the Holy Catholic Church of Rome is worth pissing on? Show me the evidence that this Archbishop has been even told off for being such an egregious putz.
The abortion in question is of the twins being carried by a nine year old girl who had been raped by her stepfather since she was six, and which pregnancy was practically guaranteed to kill her.
Christian love and charity, suck it up.
Note also that there is no mention of the stepfather being excommunicated, making the priorities involved quite clear.
It has also been pointed out that there is a ‘loophole’ in Dogma, to the effect that an abortion may only be carried out if not doing so would soon result in the death of the mother. I dunno, you think a nine year old girl with twins might qualify? Because the report says that the Holy and Compassionate Mother Church didn't think so, attempting to block the abortion anyway.
It has yet further been said that the excommunications were of the sort that merely participating in the procedure was sufficient, and that a properly delegated priest or higher could reverse it. In which case: if it was determined that the procedure wasn't excommunication-worthy ex post facto, then surely the un-excommunication must be retroactive? But regardless, the Archbishop is talking about it in the future tense. To him, this is not something which is a legalistic formalism, this is something which is yet to be done, and it will be done, and he is going to make sure that it is done. But not for the man who raped a nine year old girl and got her pregnant. This is not, obviously, nearly as bad a crime against God and Man as is saving a little girl's life.
You want me to believe that the Holy Catholic Church of Rome is worth pissing on? Show me the evidence that this Archbishop has been even told off for being such an egregious putz.
