Oh, you mean the one that also says this?
4. Charged with the promotion and the defense of faith and morals in the universal Church,
[2] the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith proposes to recall this teaching
in its essential aspects to all the faithful. Thus in showing the unity of the Church, it
will confirm by the authority proper to the Holy See what the bishops have opportunely
undertaken. It hopes that all the faithful, including those who might have been unsettled by
the controversies and new opinions, will understand that it is not a question of opposing
one opinion to another, but of transmitting to the faithful a constant teaching of the
supreme Magisterium, which teaches moral norms in the light of faith.[3] It is therefore
clear that this declaration necessarily entails a grave obligation for Christian consciences
.[4] May God deign to enlighten also all men who strive with their whole heart to “act in
truth” (Jn. 3:21).
and this:
Thus we understand that human life, even on this earth, is precious. Infused by the Creator,
[5] life is again taken back by Him (cf. Gen. 2:7; Wis. 15:11). It remains under His
protection: man’s blood cries out to Him (cf. Gen. 4:10) and He will demand an account of
it, “for in the image of God man was made” (Gen. 9:5-6). The commandment of God is formal:
“You shall not kill” (Ex. 20:13). Life is at the same time a gift and a responsibility. It
is received as a “talent” (cf. Mt. 25:14-30); it must be put to proper use. In order that
life may bring forth fruit, many tasks are offered to man in this world and he must not
shirk them. More important still, the Christian knows that eternal life depends on what,
with the grace of God, he does with his life on earth.
- The tradition of the Church has always held that human life must be protected and
favored from the beginning, just as at the various stages of its development. Opposing the
morals of the Greco-Roman world, the Church of the first centuries insisted on the
difference that exists on this point between those morals and Christian morals. In the
Didache it is clearly said: “You shall not kill by abortion the fruit of the womb and you
shall not murder the infant already born.”[6] Athenagoras emphasizes that Christians
consider as murderers those women who take medicines to procure an abortion; he condemns the
killers of children, including those still living in their mother’s womb, “where they are
already the object of the care of divine Providence.” Tertullian did not always perhaps use
the same language; he nevertheless clearly affirms the essential principle: “To prevent
birth is anticipated murder; it makes little difference whether one destroys a life already
born or does away with it in its nascent stage. The one who will be a man is already one.”
[8]
(when I get to the part that you keep going on and on about I’ll let you know.)
