Hattip to commenter Greg Mockeridge. Edward Pentin at National Catholic Register reminds us of just how far we have fallen:
The decision to have the notorious abortionist Emma Bonino speak about immigration in an Italian church last week drew widespread condemnation.
But it also led some to argue, including the local Caritas representative who sponsored her talk, that Bonino’s atrocious abortion record, of which she has never repented, could be set aside to focus on this other aspect of Catholic Social Teaching.
Yet effectively sidelining the gravity of abortion in favor of bringing a radical secularist to form a common front on immigration perhaps signifies how much the West, and some in the Church, have become numb to abortion and the gravity of the sin.
St. Padre Pio, for example, believed abortion was not just the murder of an innocent human being, but also a true suicide.
In a now famous story, Father Pellegrino Funicelli, who assisted Padre Pio for many years, once confronted the saint on the sin, asking him:
“Today you denied absolution to a woman because she had voluntarily undergone an abortion. Why have you been so rigorous with this poor unfortunate?” (Padre Pio would sometimes refuse to give absolution to a penitent if they showed insufficient contrition; often they would return and he’d give absolution if they were sincere).
Padre Pio responded: “The day that people lose their horror for abortion will be the most terrible day for humanity. Abortion is not only a homicide but also a suicide. Shouldn’t we have the courage to manifest our faith before those who commit two crimes within one act?
“Suicide?,” asked Father Pellegrino.
“The suicide of the human race will be understood by those who will see the earth populated by the elderly and depopulated of children: burnt as a desert,” Padre Pio replied.
Bonino, who boasts of performing more than 10,000 abortions in 1975, vacuuming the unborn child from the womb with a bicycle pump and putting the mangled remains into a glass jar, ironically noted in her talk the population decline in Italy.
Go here to read the rest. This all calls to mind the immortal couplet of poet Alexander Pope:
“Vice is a monster of so frightful mien
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.”
If only our Pope had the wisdom of Mr. Pope.
“Abortion is not only a homicide but also a suicide.” St. Pio.
Add genocide. A mass homicide IS the adoption of killing human beings for a greater good. This adoption of act being a form of social justice in this culture is most definitely a sign of suicide for a people, a nation.
St. Mother Teresa: “Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.”
This form of violence is worse than murder because it teaches the generations to come that regardless of the act, the ends do justify the means.
God help us.
Saint Pio, Pray hard for US.
You, ambassador for Christ, get to the abortion clinic and pray the rosary for the end of a national suicidal pact….the liberial / feminist progressive mindset.
“The day that people lose their horror for abortion will be the most terrible day for humanity”
Such perfect understanding of the evil of abortion. How possibly could any apostle of Christ call the opposing of such evil, “an obsession”?
One has to wonder if in Rome, the seat of God’s holy Church, truth matters anymore.
I keep saying to myself, if Bergoglio is not the false prophet, what would the false prophet do differently? . . . I got nothing.
“One person cannot own another person” Abraham Lincoln.
Scientific DNA tells us that the newly begotten innocent soul is another person., not a “rabbity” person but a child of God whom the Pope must acknowledge. Damn the Pope’s evil excesses. Damn the Pope’s evil bullying imposing atheism on the world. Damn the Pope’s unbridled ignorance.
“have become numb to abortion and the gravity of the sin….”
The unholy logic is this: Humanae Vitae cannot be preached (the very idea that married persons are capable of abstaining for 10-14 days of fertility is absurd, so say celibate male clergy..), therefore widespread contraception by persons who profess to be catholic will continue and therefore in general society also, therein since widespread contraception is at the very root of abortion, abortion is also a “necessary” evil.
Insane, I know, but there it is. The Slippery slope.
I’m sure that if Emma Bonino was an unrepentant nazi or an enthusiastic
advocate for pedophilia, then Caritas would never dream of sponsoring
her talk on immigration in a Catholic church. But she’s neither of those,
she’s “just” a notorious, unrepentant, enthusiastic advocate for abortion.
No big deal, apparently. /sarc.
Oh, and Caritas isn’t alone in their moral blindness– earlier this year, Pope
Francis referred to Bonino as one of Italy’s “forgotten greats”– and this is
the man who just gutted the Pontifical Academy for Life and then staffed
it with people soft on abortion / euthanasia…https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-calls-italys-foremost-abortion-promoter-one-of-nations-forgotten-great
The chastisement begin’s in and of the Church. 17For the time is, that judgment should begin at the house of God. And if first at us, what shall be the end of them that believe not the gospel of God? 18And if the just man shall scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? 19Wherefore let them also that suffer according to the will of God, commend their souls in good deeds to the faithful Creator.
1st. Peter 4:17,18
Preparing for verse 18 & 19
“have become numb to abortion and the gravity of the sin….”
What human beings have become numb to is the joy of chaste sex, the joy of knowing sacrifice of true love, the reality of God. Absent true love, individuals settle for the scab culture of dehumanized beings, the denial of God, the celebration of sin and debouchery. God gave us the Ten Commandments because He loves us. The devil smogs over our minds with inuendos and swindles. Remember: Satan promised Adam and Eve that they would become like God if they ate the forbidden fruit, which was the forbidden fruit. Adam and Eve were created in the image of God Adam and Eve were like God. Satan promised Adam and Eve something that they already had and the devil did not have to give. That is called a swindle.
Why is it that contraceptive love or fornication never satisfies, even abortion never solves anything but creates more chaos. One woman had 35 abortions to “save her life” Mindless. Let us say that people have already slipped into insanity since abolishing the presence of God in their midst and establishing atheism as the center of truth. God WHO is TRUTH.
Just think, if she were a member of the mafia the pope would have excommunicated her. Hmm, I’d bet she’s killed more humans than the mafia.
“Bonino, who boasts of performing more than 10,000 abortions in 1975, vacuuming the unborn child from the womb with a bicycle pump and putting the mangled remains into a glass jar, ironically noted in her talk the population decline in Italy.”
What cognitive dissonance! Can’t these people – such believes in science and reason – think through the logical consequences of their murderous policies and programs?
To be liberal is to be mentally defective.
He should save some of the horror he shows for our President for her and Maduro…
Yes, first numb to sin and then to common sense–followed by mass suicide, just as night follows day. Surely the end is near.
Last evening, I listened to an interview of Michael Hichson of the Lepanto Institutein One Peter 5. He has done a great deal of investigative reporting of Caritas, the CRC worldwide, and the USCCB. This is not new news but coming to light more and more. Padre Pio is rolling in his grave. Padre Pio, pray for us!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/onepeterfive-podcast/id987104644?mt=2&i=1000390607954
The dogma of the IMMACULATE CONCEPTION is being undercut by the apparitions at Medjugore. The IMMACULATE CONCEPTION is the Mother of all newly begotten innocent souls infused into the human body at fertilization and conception. The rational soul is the breath of life. Scientific DNA proves individuality at fertilization.
The dogma of the IMMACULATE CONCEPTION promulgated in 1850 is celebrated on December 8th in the Catholic Church. Therefore, Our Lady’s birthday is celebrated on September 8th, nine months later, in the same way that the ANNUNCIATION is celebrated on March 25th and the birth of Jesus is celebrated on December 25th.
The apparition at Medjugore tells people that Our Lady’s birthday is August 5th, so that Our Lady’s IMMACULATE CONCEPTION occurred on November 5th. Still the teaching authority of the Catholic Church is being obliterated by this apparition.
The statue of Medjugore has no breasts and the feet are covered by a cloud.
The chief exorcist of the Vatican, Malachi Martin RIP said that the apparitions at Medjugore are a satanic hoax. Our Lady’s feet were shown at Fatima, Lourdes, Akita, Garabendel every time. Now here NO.
Atheism is a religious belief in the non-existence of The Supreme Sovereign Being, God, in the non-existence of the rational transcendent soul and in the innate, unalienable human rights inhering in mankind’s immortal soul. Satan is no atheist.
Abortion, genocide and mass murder result from the rejection of the existence of The Supreme Sovereign Being, God, and mankind’s transcendent breath of life.
Abolishing the dogma of THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION by destroying the church teaching on the IMMACULATE CONCEPTION destroys the Church teaching on the sanctity and sacredness of human life from conception at fertilization to natural death, when the breath of life, the human soul, leaves the body.