There are facts and truths that "sexual libertarians" don't want society or public opinion to know, that even they don't want to know. To sum up those facts - accumulated in different human cultures and societies - we don't need sex to live a full life and be content. To define one's identity on the basis of our sexuality alone is to reduce our human value and dignity. I am a lot more than just my genitalia, and so are you. G.S.
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My purpose in these posts is to bring together significant and, where possible, representative echoes of our best human efforts to make sense of our lives - and of our human sexuality in particular - also including the voice of Jesus Christ, the one Saviour of the world, and testimonies from his Church, such as through her teaching voice, the Magisterium. The Church has been accumulating much valuable wisdom granted her by Almighty God since her foundation at Pentecost. In this way, wherever there is darkness in our human understanding, it will serve to highlight the bright and radiant truth, which is Jesus Christ: "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you know me, you will know my Father also." John's Gospel 14:6-7
Father Gilles Surprenant, priest & poustinik
Pope Francis: Abortion is like hiring a hitman By Courtney Grogan Vatican City, Oct 10, 2018
Pope Francis kisses a child at the general audience on Oct. 10. Credit: Daniel Ibanez.
In
his general audience Wednesday, Pope Francis said that abortion “suppresses
innocent and helpless life in its blossoming.”
“Is it right to take a human life to solve a problem? It's like hiring a
hitman,” Pope Francis said in St. Peter’s Square Oct. 10, in a departure from
his prepared remarks.
“Violence and the rejection of life are born from fear,” the pope added.
For this reason, parents who learn that their unborn child will have a
disability need “real closeness, true solidarity to face reality; overcoming
understandable fears,” he explained.
Pope Francis lamented that parents receiving a difficult prenatal diagnosis
often “receive hasty advice to stop the pregnancy.”
It is contradictory to suppress “human life in the womb in the name of
safeguarding other rights,” the pope insisted.
“How can an act that suppresses innocent and helpless life in its blossoming be
therapeutic, civil, or simply human?”
The pope’s remarks on abortion came during a reflection on the fifth
commandment, “Thou shall not kill.” In recent weeks, the pope has dedicated his
weekly general audiences to a series of lesson and reflections on the Ten
Commandments recorded in the scriptural books of Exodus and Deuteronomy.
“One could say that all the evil done in the world is summarized in this:
contempt for life,” Pope Francis told the pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s
Square.
“What leads man to reject life? They are the idols of this world: money, power,
success. These are incorrect parameters to evaluate life. The only authentic
measure of life is love, the love with which God loves it!”
The positive meaning of the fifth commandment is that “God is a lover of life,”
he continued.
“In every sick child, in every weak old man, in every desperate migrant, in
every fragile and threatened life, Christ is looking for us, he is looking for
our heart, to disclose the joy of love. It is worthwhile to accept every life
because every man is worth the blood of Christ. We can not despise what God so
loved!” Pope Francis said.
While a sick child or an elderly person who needs assistance can be viewed as a
burden, this can actually be “a gift from God,” explained the pope. This
vulnerable life can “pull me out of self-centeredness and make me grow in
love.”
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