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Cardinal Ouellet Clarifies: Church Still Asks States ‘To Penalize the Practice of Abortion’
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By Patrick B. Craine
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OTTAWA, Ontario, May 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the Archbishop of Quebec and Primate of Canada, has emphasized the Catholic Church’s teaching that abortion is not only morally evil but that it also must be prohibited by law.
According to Catholic teaching, abortion is “considered a crime, a moral crime and a legal crime, too, and the Church is asking the states to penalize the practice of abortion,” said the cardinal. Ouellet made the remarks to Deborah Gyapong of Canadian Catholic News on May 23rd.
The Cardinal’s clarification came a week after he sparked a flurry among Quebec media and politicians by reaffirming the Church’s teaching against abortion in all cases, including rape. “The child is not responsible for how he was conceived, it is the aggressor who is responsible. We can see him (the child) as another victim,” he told reporters May 16th at a pro-life conference hosted by the Quebec branch of Campaign Life Coalition.
The Archdiocese of Quebec had attempted to clarify these comments in the media, emphasizing the fact that the Cardinal did not specifically call for a law against abortion. “There is a spin, saying the cardinal would like to re-criminalize [abortion] and this is not what he said,” spokesman Jasmin Lemieux-Lefebvre told CBC. “He’s not calling for re-criminalization. He was talking [about] a moral thing, this is a moral issue. He was not bringing this to the judicial level.”
The archdiocese’s “clarification” resulted in confusion about the position of the Church and Cardinal Ouellet on the criminalization of abortion; but the Cardinal’s follow-up remarks to Gyapong affirm the teaching of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Quoting the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s Donum Vitae, the Catechism states: “As a consequence of the respect and protection which must be ensured for the unborn child from the moment of conception, the law must provide appropriate penal sanctions for every deliberate violation of the child’s rights” (CCC 2273).
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By Patrick B. Craine
To sign a petition in support of Cardinal Ouellet, click here.
OTTAWA, Ontario, May 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the Archbishop of Quebec and Primate of Canada, has emphasized the Catholic Church’s teaching that abortion is not only morally evil but that it also must be prohibited by law.
According to Catholic teaching, abortion is “considered a crime, a moral crime and a legal crime, too, and the Church is asking the states to penalize the practice of abortion,” said the cardinal. Ouellet made the remarks to Deborah Gyapong of Canadian Catholic News on May 23rd.
The Cardinal’s clarification came a week after he sparked a flurry among Quebec media and politicians by reaffirming the Church’s teaching against abortion in all cases, including rape. “The child is not responsible for how he was conceived, it is the aggressor who is responsible. We can see him (the child) as another victim,” he told reporters May 16th at a pro-life conference hosted by the Quebec branch of Campaign Life Coalition.
The Archdiocese of Quebec had attempted to clarify these comments in the media, emphasizing the fact that the Cardinal did not specifically call for a law against abortion. “There is a spin, saying the cardinal would like to re-criminalize [abortion] and this is not what he said,” spokesman Jasmin Lemieux-Lefebvre told CBC. “He’s not calling for re-criminalization. He was talking [about] a moral thing, this is a moral issue. He was not bringing this to the judicial level.”
The archdiocese’s “clarification” resulted in confusion about the position of the Church and Cardinal Ouellet on the criminalization of abortion; but the Cardinal’s follow-up remarks to Gyapong affirm the teaching of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Quoting the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s Donum Vitae, the Catechism states: “As a consequence of the respect and protection which must be ensured for the unborn child from the moment of conception, the law must provide appropriate penal sanctions for every deliberate violation of the child’s rights” (CCC 2273).
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