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David_Paul
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Newsmax.com
5/9/05
by Fr. Michael Reilly
The dissident group Catholics for a Free Choice is deceptively using a popular devotional image to promote abortion among Hispanics Catholics, asking Our Lady of Guadalupe to “keep abortion legal.”
The image of Our Lady of Guadalupe is popular among Hispanics because Mary appeared as an Aztec to an Indian convert named Juan Diego in Mexico in 1531.
Her image was miraculously emblazoned on his tilma (an Indian garment) as a sign to the bishop to build a Church in Mary’s honor. The tilma bearing her image is still hanging in the Church today.
Our Lady of Guadalupe is the patroness of the Americas, but more pointedly, she is also the patroness of the unborn. Before the arrival of Spanish missionaries, the Aztecs were offering as many as ten thousand young people each year in human sacrifice to the serpent god.
The miracle engendered the conversion of eight to nine million Aztecs which effectively ended the practice of human sacrifice in Mexico. Indeed, Guadalupe is not a place, but rather Aztec for “she who crushed the serpent.” So Catholics throughout the United States pray that Our Lady of Guadalupe will end the practice of human sacrifice in America known as aboron.
Polls have consistently shown Hispanics to be aggressively Catholic and pro-life and that they are trending towards the Republicans because of social issues.
Hopefully, Hispanics will not be deceived by the religious trickery of Catholics for a Free Choice, which misrepresents the Catholic Church’s position on abortion.
5/9/05
by Fr. Michael Reilly
The dissident group Catholics for a Free Choice is deceptively using a popular devotional image to promote abortion among Hispanics Catholics, asking Our Lady of Guadalupe to “keep abortion legal.”
The image of Our Lady of Guadalupe is popular among Hispanics because Mary appeared as an Aztec to an Indian convert named Juan Diego in Mexico in 1531.
Her image was miraculously emblazoned on his tilma (an Indian garment) as a sign to the bishop to build a Church in Mary’s honor. The tilma bearing her image is still hanging in the Church today.
Our Lady of Guadalupe is the patroness of the Americas, but more pointedly, she is also the patroness of the unborn. Before the arrival of Spanish missionaries, the Aztecs were offering as many as ten thousand young people each year in human sacrifice to the serpent god.
The miracle engendered the conversion of eight to nine million Aztecs which effectively ended the practice of human sacrifice in Mexico. Indeed, Guadalupe is not a place, but rather Aztec for “she who crushed the serpent.” So Catholics throughout the United States pray that Our Lady of Guadalupe will end the practice of human sacrifice in America known as aboron.
Polls have consistently shown Hispanics to be aggressively Catholic and pro-life and that they are trending towards the Republicans because of social issues.
Hopefully, Hispanics will not be deceived by the religious trickery of Catholics for a Free Choice, which misrepresents the Catholic Church’s position on abortion.
