“The sheriffs have said that I am going to die this coming Friday; and I feel the weakness of my flesh which is troubled at this news, but my spirit rejoices greatly. For the love of God, pray for me and ask all good people to do likewise.”
Saint Margaret Clitherow
There was plenty of murder and torture on both sides of the fence during the Protestant so-called “Reformation.” 😞 That a pregnant woman was murdered by being crushed to death is horrible whether she was Catholic (as in this case) or Protestant.
I guess Mr. Hitchens has a different understanding of “treason” than I have.
LQC-
The execution is especially vile because they better understood (as a culture) that the unborn child was a person, a person whose only “treason” was Adam’s, and who would not receive baptism.
The Holy Scripture says: “Only for killing a man can a man be put to death.” So how does Elizabeth explain her murder of Saint Margaret Clitherow?
TBO,
The unborn child in the womb has implicit
baptism until such time as he is able to receive Sacramental Baptism after he comes into the world. Implicit Baptism is called Baptism of Desire.
How does Planned Parenthood know or perceive the thoughts and prayers of the child in the womb?
Jewish tradition believes that the child in the womb can sin before birth. This proves that the child in the womb thinks and knows and believes.
The innocent soul in the womb is closer to God that you and me. His Guardian Angel guards him. His soul directs the growth of his body into maturity.
Roe v. Wade never bore the burden of proof that the unborn child in the womb is not a sovereign person, a human being, a member of the human species.
According to the state the child in the womb is a citizen through the citizenship of his mother and father and is entitled to all the civil rights enjoyed by each and every citizen.
Jesus Christ is a citizen of the world; loving every person from Adam to the end of time.
Separation of Church and State dictates that the State has no governance over the conscience of the child in the womb, (and over any other man’s conscience except to protect the freedom to exercise their innocence.)
TBO:
In addition, the unborn child in the womb is scandalized by his being aborted. Being scandalized endangers his heaven.
Jesus said that anyone who scandalizes an innocent child in the womb or born ought to put a millstone about his neck and drown himself in the debts of the sea. (Jesus’ testimony to capital punishment and the power of attorney of the condemned to bring himself to Justice even his own Justice as a citizen of the state.
Yeah, and this occurred in a “civilized” country. Brutal English history.
Mark M, good point. The English do have a record of being very nasty to people whom they found to be undesirable. Most folks today have little or no understanding of what the Framers likely had in mind in writing up the Eighth Amendment.
Queen Elizabeth I did persecute Catholics for their Faith. Taking the oath to recognize Elizabeth as head of the the Church would be a denial of their Catholic Faith. They were not denying that she was queen of England. St Thomas More would not deny his Faith though he loved his king Henry VIII. There was no treason.
I had not heard that St Margaret was pregnant when she was put to death. In most civilized countries a woman condemned to death who was with child would be executed only after delivery.
U.S. CONSTITUTION
Article III Section 3
Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
The Congress shall have the Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption
of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
Henry VIII called treason everyone who disagreed with him, denying freedom of conscience and self-defense. The plea of self-defense cannot be used in a court of law in Britain to this day. Guns are banned and homicide by knife has quadrupled.
Saint Margaret Clitherow in defending priests was defending her conscience, her Faith and her right to pursue the Truth. Saint Margaret Clitherow’s unborn child died when she died. Her unborn child belonged to her husband.