CBCP: Abortion remains a ‘mortal sin’

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MANILA, Sept. 3, 2015— The Philippine Catholic bishops on Wednesday clarified that abortion remains a “grave” offense against moral law.
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Responding to “misleading” reports that Pope Francis has softened the Church’s stance on the issue, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines said abortion is unjustifiable.
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CBCP president Archbishop Socrates Villegas said abortion “remains a serious wrong” because terminating the life of the unborn “trespasses the sacred ground that human life is.”
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Usige said:
I have to agree, Elizium. I can’t even fathom how anyone could read that into his remarks/actions beyond wishful thinking.
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After seeing what MSNBC posted about this, I think it goes beyond wishful thinking.
 
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Considering how much emphasis the Pope is placing on mercy, and considering how much emphasis he placed on confession available to women who have had an abortion, one would wonder why this needed to be clarified.

After all, if abortion is not a grave/mortal sin, then there’d be no need to confess that act. In other words, why would the Pope stress all these points if he was not actually reinforcing the truth that procuring an abortion is a mortal sin?

The Pope wants people to confess the sin of abortion for a reason.
 
I am always a little nervous when I hear statements about abortion remaining a mortal sin. Abortion is, according to the Church, a moral wrong. Whether or not it is a sin for the woman who actually has the abortion is another matter. I have always understood that for an abortion (or indeed any act) to be a mortal sin it must involve grave matter (abortion clearly does), the person must know it is wrong (this may or may not be the case depending on the person), and must freely decide to do it anyway. The killing of the unborn is a human tragedy of unparalled proportions, and I think that the Church must speak out with greater courage, clarity and vigour about why abortion is wrong. The question of whether a given person has sinned by procuring an abortion, however, really is between that person and God. God knows whether they knew in their heart that it was wrong or not, and also whether they acted freely (from God’s perspective). An individual cannot hide from perfect knowledge of God, but the truth about an individual’s sin or culpability can (and often is) beyond our reach.
 
Usige said:
I have to agree, Elizium. I can’t even fathom how anyone could read that into his remarks/actions beyond wishful thinking.
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This doesnt surprise me in the least, since the Pope left, Ive never seen so many secular people so happy he did not talk in detail about abortion and the SSM issue, all these people are under the impression the CC IS ‘softening’ its position on these things.

Just the other day, I was debating a FB friend about this, she had shared something she saw online, making reference to the Pope avoiding these topics at possibly the greatest opportunity he had, this has been shared and ‘liked’ 1000s of time…this proved to me A WHOLE LOT of people out there are getting the wrong idea. She told me, if the Pope was that concerned with those issues, he would have brought it up when his audience was the congress and senate as well as the SC justices. They are quite happy he seems to put climate change as the number one priority, as that is something most secular people and even many religious people agree with.
 
rciaguy said:
I am always a little nervous when I hear statements about abortion remaining a mortal sin. Abortion is, according to the Church, a moral wrong. Whether or not it is a sin for the woman who actually has the abortion is another matter. I have always understood that for an abortion (or indeed any act) to be a mortal sin it must involve grave matter (abortion clearly does), the person must know it is wrong (this may or may not be the case depending on the person), and must freely decide to do it anyway. The killing of the unborn is a human tragedy of unparalled proportions, and I think that the Church must speak out with greater courage, clarity and vigour about why abortion is wrong. The question of whether a given person has sinned by procuring an abortion, however, really is between that person and God. God knows whether they knew in their heart that it was wrong or not, and also whether they acted freely (from God’s perspective). An individual cannot hide from perfect knowledge of God, but the truth about an individual’s sin or culpability can (and often is) beyond our reach.
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There’s a pretty high hurdle to clear to claim someone doesn’t know abortion is wrong. God has written the natural law on every person’s heart to know that killing is wrong. I’m not saying it isn’t possible, but most people know killing a baby is wrong.
 
zz912 said:
There’s a pretty high hurdle to clear to claim someone doesn’t know abortion is wrong. God has written the natural law on every person’s heart to know that killing is wrong. I’m not saying it isn’t possible, but most people know killing a baby is wrong.
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Sadly, many don’t view abortion as killing a baby which I think is where rciaguy is coming from. The believe life begins at birth. Not sure what changes when passing through the birth canal.
 
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