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Vatican City, Jul 10, 2009 / 03:27 pm (CNA).- Correcting confusion generated by the recent statement of a Vatican official, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) issued a statement today confirming that so called “therapeutic” abortion “has not been and can never be” accepted as Catholic teaching.
The document is a response, it says, to the “manipulation and instrumentalization” of an article by Bishop Rino Fisichella published in L’Osservatore Romano on March 15, 2009 about the case of an abortion procured for a 9 year-old Brazilian girl who had been impregnated by her stepfather.
In his article, Fisichella seemed to criticize the local Brazilian archbishop, José Cardoso Sobrinho, who sparked criticism from the secular media when he reminded everyone that, according to the teachings of the Church, all those involved in the abortion, with the exception of the girl, were excommunicated.
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The document is a response, it says, to the “manipulation and instrumentalization” of an article by Bishop Rino Fisichella published in L’Osservatore Romano on March 15, 2009 about the case of an abortion procured for a 9 year-old Brazilian girl who had been impregnated by her stepfather.
In his article, Fisichella seemed to criticize the local Brazilian archbishop, José Cardoso Sobrinho, who sparked criticism from the secular media when he reminded everyone that, according to the teachings of the Church, all those involved in the abortion, with the exception of the girl, were excommunicated.
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