Here's what Pope Francis and Justin Trudeau talked about [CNA]

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Getting back to this Trudeau at the Vatican topic:

It’s too bad that on his visit to the Vatican, PM Trudeau didn’t have a chance to catch up with Canada’s own Cardinal Marc Ouellet . I suspect Cardinal Ouellet would have reminded him that abortion is killing. While Canadians who respect life may have trouble being proud of our PM, we don’t seem to encounter that same problem with Cardinal Ouellet.
Cardinal Ouellet came under heavy fire back in 2010 for saying that abortion in cases of rape was wrong. His logic was flawless:

The cardinal, when asked by reporters about abortion in the case of rape, said that rather than helping the victim of rape, an abortion actually adds a second victim – the unborn child. “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.”

But that brought out the venom in politicians and journalists alike. An extreme example was Montreal Newspaper La Presse’s Patrick Lagace who wrote

"Cardinal Ouellet will die someday. I hope he dies from a long and painful illness. . . "

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. . . not a whole lot for Canadians to be proud of in Lagace’s statement. - :dts:

But while the press and politicians - without one shred of scientific or medical substantiation of their own, were busy shooting the Cardinal down, a voice which all Canadians should be proud of spoke up . . . the voice of a wife and mother of five , a registered nurse , who herself was conceived in rape (highlights mine) :

"I am extremely grateful to and proud of Cardinal Ouellet for speaking up to defend the lives of those of us conceived in rape,” says Deborah Morlani, a wife, mother of five children, pro-life speaker, Catholic writer, registered nurse and grad student working on her Master of Theology degree.
Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the archbishop of Quebec City and primate of Canada, has endured condemnation and vilification from the mainstream press, abortion advocates, and Quebec and federal politicians, after he explained Christian teaching on abortion at a pro-life conference hosted by Quebec Life Coalition this past Sunday.

Woman Conceived in Rape Thanks Cardinal Ouellet for Abortion Statements

Someone like Deborah Morlani makes me staunchly proud to be Canadian (even if our PM gets a “fail.”)

In this and the previous 2 posts , we have had a chance to hear firsthand from downs syndrome people, from a survivor of a failed abortion with cerebral palsy, a woman and mother of five who was conceived in rape . . . all of them human beings ; each of them a child of God and happy to be alive.

 

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An excerpt from HVLI ; Dr. Jerome Lejeune

Thank you for posting this. To add a bit, if you’ll excuse a bit of thread drift: Dr. Jérôme Lejeune, a splendid scientist, is having his cause for sainthood sponsored by the Benedictine abbey of St. Wandrille in France. The cause is being led by their abbot, Dom Jean-Charles Nault; I had the pleasure of meeting him a few years ago when he visited the abbey I’m affiliated with (Saint-Benoît-du-Lac) on our annual oblate retreat, and where he spoke to us at length about the petition for Dr. Lejeune’s beatification and sainthood, and of Dr. Lejeune’s work.

From the Wikipedia entry:

A few years later, during his visit to Paris for World Youth Day 1997, John Paul II visited Lejeune’s grave in Châlo-Saint-Mars. Lejeune has been named “Servant of God” by the Catholic Church, and his cause for sainthood is being postulated by the Abbey of Saint Wandrille in France.

Dr. Lejeune, pray for us and our broken world!

Back on topic, as I mentioned earlier, I myself was adopted as an infant, in 1958. I thus have very strong feelings on the evils of abortion. I often thank God that I was conceived in an era when abortion was much, much less common than today, and that my biological mother had the courage to bring me into the world and set me up to be adopted by loving adoptive parents.

It is my deepest prayer that every unwanted child be given the same chance at life.