abortion catholic church

I've heard that they allowed abortions on some nuns who were brutally raped in the Belgian Congo by some rebels. Is this the only exception?

None.

The one exception that I know is when a pregnant woman must undergo a medical procedure to save her life and as a regrettable but unavoidable circumstance the unborn baby dies. The Catholic Church does not classify this as an abortion.

With love in Christ.

2008-09-06 13:30:17 by vegas713

Nancy Pelosi#39;s recent comments on Meet the Press are completely opposite of Catholic Church teaching. Catholics planning to vote for Obama and ...

I have heard that there is excommunication from the church if you confess it to a priest... is that true?

"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die
so that you may live as you wish" ~ Mother Theresa

2009-05-09 22:11:52 by Alexandra S

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Please! I need to know the official teachings on abortion and capital punishment according to the Catholic Church!

This is for a Respect Life essay.














Praise the Lord!

To give a slightly more nuanced answer:

Abortion. Human life begins at conception and must be protected. Abortion is wrong in every instance, and by its nature automatically excommunicates the person who has it performed. This is not to say that this person is rejected by the Church, but rather that their offense is so grave that it by itself constitutes a rupture that must be repaired.
http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s2c2a5.h tm

Death penalty. This is slightly more complicated due to the nature of the perpetrator's offense. The Catechism of the Church states, "Assuming that the guilty party's identity and responsibility have been fully determined, the traditional teaching of the Church does not exclude recourse to the death penalty, if this is the only possible way of effectively defending human lives against the unjust aggressor." Because of the sanctity of life, however, if society can be protected through non-lethal means, then it is immoral to execute the criminal. Indeed, because of modern jail and judicial systems, the Church states that instances in which the offender must be executed "are very rare, if not practically nonexistent."
http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2267. htm

2009-02-28 20:15:58 by burn down something beautiful

What if you voted for Obama, but voted no for abortions, or voted for Obama but nothing on abortions. The Catholic Church has me totally confused in regards to the election.
What if you didn't vote, would that be a sin because you did not try and stop abortions. Good grief!

Catholics have a moral obligation to vote for those who would not promote the evil of abortions, which is genocide. Those that say its choice doesn't finish the sentence. It's to "choose" to kill a human being.
There was never any confusion you either vote for the moral good of this nation or you did not. To not vote means you are are a cafeteria Catholic, you just choose what you like and ignore what you don't like. Those that know their faith know who was on the side of life and was obligated to vote that direction.
Just to add the person voted for by the majority believes that ripping a child out of the mothers womb and somehow survives needs to be killed off immediately (that is what a partial abortion bill is about).. its genocide. This is not a private thing between mother and doctor, the child is part of that equation but it has no rights at all to say, No don't kill me!

If you don't vote for pro life people then the future of this country is in jeopardy. Those countries that are killing off their future has no replacements look at Japan for an example of killing off their future.

2008-11-05 07:30:08 by Brenda M

How can they just get way with saying that. I mean really this guy in brazil rapes an 9 year old girl she gets pregnant with twins she'll die if she carries them, her mom lets her get the abortion the mom and doctors is excommunicated from the Church but not the rapist and a
Bishop says well rape is not as bad as an abortion. WHAT! is this how the Vatican really thinks. I don't know if i want to be a christian anymore if this the way it's supposed to go

IMO, it's not murder. Rape is worse.

Pro-choice.

2009-03-11 13:52:28 by Prince G