Vote against cloning, or else, Cardinal Pell warns

[Eileen_T]

Here’s a quote from *The Australian * newspaper June 8,

LIKE a dog with a bone, Cardinal George Pell was at it again yesterday, reminding people that the Catholic Church is opposed to the destruction of human life and would never support the destruction of human embryos for stem cell research, not even if the result was a cure for the most debilitating disease of our times.

He was criticised on talkback radio and in the letters pages but here at The Australian, we admire the man even though we have always supported stem cell research. Pell believes in an eternal truth, and an afterlife. His views clash spectacularly with many advances in science and the ways in which people live in modern times.

But it is wonderful, in an age where the concept of a knowable truth has been rejected by scholars in favour of universal relevance, to find a major intellectual standing up for “eternal truth”.

It is, after all, Pell’s responsibility to remind Catholics of the rules that apply to Catholic lives. Catholics are not supposed to have an abortion, use birth control, cheat on their spouses or vote for legislation of the type that passed yesterday through the NSW parliament, that would allow destruction of human life, including human embryos.

This is a fixed Catholic position. It doesn’t change with the times. Pell does not refer to opinion polls before deciding which legislation to support, the way politicians do. He is a man of firm principles by which he stands.

theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21867633-7583,00.html

I like the way if finishes …

Pell has done well to remind Catholics that there is another set of rules, older than parliament, older than time, that is central to their faith, indeed to the passage of their souls into heaven.

A vast majority of Australians consider such rules irrelevant, even ridiculous. That’s fine. Nobody says Australians have to live by Catholic rules. But the Catholic Church says Catholics must live by those rules, and that’s all Pell is saying.

 

[M_Hains]

The Cardinal, in his weekly newspaper column, gently reminds Catholics of their duties. I like this quote:

*A few politicians, trumpeted their Catholicity as they publicly rejected Catholic teachings; this is not good logic.

The Catholic Church is not a duty-free assembly of free-thinkers. *

 

[Holly3278]

Good for the good Cardinal. Something must be done!