Next Thursday is scheduled the final vote in the full House of Representatives of the Organic Law on Sexual and Reproductive Health and the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy. Many human beings they will be denied the right to enjoy their life. With the approach of this fact, I feel a huge pain and I apologize to God personally and also because I am a citizen of this society is now adar this step. I wonder - in front of my conscience, how we were able to get here? I confess
impressed the first time I visited the memorial of the Vietnam War in Washington. Names and names and names of the fallen in that war. Each entry corresponded to a life, a family, thousands of projects truncated. "They gave meaning to his life these victims of war? Possibly, they fought to defend their country, but did not survive. In that place breathed some peace. Peace
missing in the hearts of so many troubled by this evil spirit dark: the guilt of having taken an innocent life. A few years ago a psychologist came to visit. I was attending
women suffering psychological trauma of having had an abortion. Looking how to mitigate the pain that gripped those mothers who had been pushed into the momentous decision to abort. He told me that the only way forward was to help them accept their guilt, to apologize. Somewhere in another country held a religious ceremony to pray for the souls of those children who had not been born. Apparently, all mothers, into their lives, have been named after the aborted child. So on paper each wrote their own nickname, and deposited in a basket before the altar. They are lights that shine in the eternity of souls. Christians know that.
However, it is not necessary to be a Christian to realize that it is always inhuman delete unfairly anyone's life, and more if the child himself. In the words of John Paul II: "every person sincerely open to truth and goodness, even amid difficulties and uncertainties, with the light of reason and not without the influence of grace, may come to recognize in the natural law written in his heart the sacred value of human life from beginning to end. " Who reflects the serene drive guided by his reason, far from any a priori, is to refuse to accept death without reason from someone helpless.
The law of abortion in debate is extremely important for us all, because abortion is a complete drama in our society, a sore that darkens the soul of our people and prevents us know and to love. No Parliament, no parliamentary majority has the right to remove a single innocent life, let alone the right of any state to do so. It is not only illegitimate, it is also an unjust law, even though our legislators and our authorities are legitimate and deserve the appropriate respect.
feel the need to apologize to God, personally and collectively, for the 25,379 abortions reported in Catalonia in 2008 (115,812 statewide), which are all maternity violently shattered. I invite everyone to do so. In addition, to these figures, it explodes within me a rebel yell: "We can not do anything more, is not it is possible to avoid this discrimination?
On a day like today when many feel called to defend their language, culture, tradition, I remember that a village - a community-is first and foremost a commitment from everyone to everyone: to our elderly, sick, children, unborn ... A cluster of individuals do not make a village. A nation also has a soul, and fight in the first place to save every life conceived in her womb, when possible. Makes every effort to overcome the conflicts that lead to deleting it, and sees it as a shared duty.
someone you really can believe that most "sex education" at all educational levels will be reduced the rise of new pregnancies and new abortions, or does distributing free contraceptives to the last generation? "Thus promoting promiscuity is sensible to think that is going to fight abortion? Is it reasonable that it occupies the center of debate whether teens who have abortions to inform their parents?
Honestly, I think that on Thursday it will close a false debate. There is a serious social concern for the sad reality of our days, and for our youth and future generations. There was also a large initial alarm by the horrors, now is frustrated.
Finally the powerful did not want to go to the real causes, not the actual solutions. Is often criticized the Church for its silence in collective injustice historical moments. On the abortion issue we've discussed many times, and we do again today. Well, we are in a moment, we are going to commit a grave injustice, and we will answer to God, each at their level.
Instead, why do not we look positively projecting the future, new generations bring into play all his energy and vitality in the service of all? I often meet young people who openly reject the culture of the immediate and uncompromising look at life as a game ... These are people who refuse to be drugged by the possessive tendencies they bind to sex, alcohol and drugs. Are those that are determined to build the future on solid foundations, willing to compromise. Why not reward these approaches?
The truth always eventually prevail. And the believers also trust in God. Thursday's vote can not be a final. It must be a beginning.
impressed the first time I visited the memorial of the Vietnam War in Washington. Names and names and names of the fallen in that war. Each entry corresponded to a life, a family, thousands of projects truncated. "They gave meaning to his life these victims of war? Possibly, they fought to defend their country, but did not survive. In that place breathed some peace. Peace
missing in the hearts of so many troubled by this evil spirit dark: the guilt of having taken an innocent life. A few years ago a psychologist came to visit. I was attending
women suffering psychological trauma of having had an abortion. Looking how to mitigate the pain that gripped those mothers who had been pushed into the momentous decision to abort. He told me that the only way forward was to help them accept their guilt, to apologize. Somewhere in another country held a religious ceremony to pray for the souls of those children who had not been born. Apparently, all mothers, into their lives, have been named after the aborted child. So on paper each wrote their own nickname, and deposited in a basket before the altar. They are lights that shine in the eternity of souls. Christians know that.
However, it is not necessary to be a Christian to realize that it is always inhuman delete unfairly anyone's life, and more if the child himself. In the words of John Paul II: "every person sincerely open to truth and goodness, even amid difficulties and uncertainties, with the light of reason and not without the influence of grace, may come to recognize in the natural law written in his heart the sacred value of human life from beginning to end. " Who reflects the serene drive guided by his reason, far from any a priori, is to refuse to accept death without reason from someone helpless.
The law of abortion in debate is extremely important for us all, because abortion is a complete drama in our society, a sore that darkens the soul of our people and prevents us know and to love. No Parliament, no parliamentary majority has the right to remove a single innocent life, let alone the right of any state to do so. It is not only illegitimate, it is also an unjust law, even though our legislators and our authorities are legitimate and deserve the appropriate respect.
feel the need to apologize to God, personally and collectively, for the 25,379 abortions reported in Catalonia in 2008 (115,812 statewide), which are all maternity violently shattered. I invite everyone to do so. In addition, to these figures, it explodes within me a rebel yell: "We can not do anything more, is not it is possible to avoid this discrimination?
On a day like today when many feel called to defend their language, culture, tradition, I remember that a village - a community-is first and foremost a commitment from everyone to everyone: to our elderly, sick, children, unborn ... A cluster of individuals do not make a village. A nation also has a soul, and fight in the first place to save every life conceived in her womb, when possible. Makes every effort to overcome the conflicts that lead to deleting it, and sees it as a shared duty.
someone you really can believe that most "sex education" at all educational levels will be reduced the rise of new pregnancies and new abortions, or does distributing free contraceptives to the last generation? "Thus promoting promiscuity is sensible to think that is going to fight abortion? Is it reasonable that it occupies the center of debate whether teens who have abortions to inform their parents?
Honestly, I think that on Thursday it will close a false debate. There is a serious social concern for the sad reality of our days, and for our youth and future generations. There was also a large initial alarm by the horrors, now is frustrated.
Finally the powerful did not want to go to the real causes, not the actual solutions. Is often criticized the Church for its silence in collective injustice historical moments. On the abortion issue we've discussed many times, and we do again today. Well, we are in a moment, we are going to commit a grave injustice, and we will answer to God, each at their level.
Instead, why do not we look positively projecting the future, new generations bring into play all his energy and vitality in the service of all? I often meet young people who openly reject the culture of the immediate and uncompromising look at life as a game ... These are people who refuse to be drugged by the possessive tendencies they bind to sex, alcohol and drugs. Are those that are determined to build the future on solid foundations, willing to compromise. Why not reward these approaches?
The truth always eventually prevail. And the believers also trust in God. Thursday's vote can not be a final. It must be a beginning.
Jaume Pujol Balcells ,
archbishop of Tarragona and primate
XIII / XII / MMIX - La Vanguardia
archbishop of Tarragona and primate
XIII / XII / MMIX - La Vanguardia
"I can not change the wind direction, pero fit the candles to always arrive at my destiny. " JD 
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