Jivin J’s Life Links 10-27-10
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
- There are various local news stories in which Lansing 40 Days for Life organizer Chris Veneklase discussed how he discovered aborted children in the dumpster of a MI abortion clinic alongside the names of the mothers who aborted. (See an earlier post on this topic here.)State Rep. Rick Jones has introduced legislation to make it a crime to dispose of fetal remains this way:
- “At the end of the days they did abortions, the clinic staff would bring out a large black trash bag,” said Veneklase. “I never saw a medical waste service come to this clinic which is usually common. …”I began to wonder what they were throwing out.”
- A mother in India has been arrested after dropping her female child out of the hospital window. The child died from head injuries. The mother gave birth to premature twins, a boy and a girl:The girl’s mother initially claimed that her daughter had been stolen but security camera footage showed her going into the toilet with the baby and emerging without her.
A big black trash bag from the clinic was noticed being carried by an employee and put into the trunk of a car. Then the bag was driven across the complex and taken to the dumpster and what was found next, Veneklase says was mortifying….
“They were in bags with the mother’s name on the bag. Additional medical records were there along with bloody gauze, bloody gloves and other various things from an abortion,” said State Rep. Rick Jones.
“This paper is not about the Catholic moral teaching on abortion,” Curran said Tuesday. “In fact, the paper accepts the Catholic moral teaching that direct abortion is always wrong. The paper deals solely with abortion law and argues that one who holds the Catholic moral teaching can come to different conclusions about what the law should be.”
So abortion is the unjustified intentional killing of a human being and is always wrong but should be legal? No wonder then-Cardinal Ratzinger declared him unfit to teach theology at a Catholic school in 1986.
[Curran photo via bohlightofchrist.org]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
I smell another “lynch the Catholic who doesn’t agree with every single thing the Vatican says” fest coming on.
Curran was probably THE major dissenting voice in teh 1960s when Pius VI ussued his famous encyclical Humanae Vitae which reiterated teh Church’s ancient teaching against artificial contraception. I think he was at Catholic University of America at the time and was asked to leave because of his rebellion. Good. He’s been stirring up trouble for many years now, and it is very sad to see that he still leads a life of rebellion against that which he should love the most.
On an interesting personal note. I had an interview for a Professor position at SMU last year. I actually thought that it seemed that the campus Catholic life was being revived. For my interview, they actually asked me to (in addition to talking about other stuff) give a 15 minute talk on my place in a Catholic Marianist institution. Needless to say, I made it know that I was so overwhelmingly Catholic, and everyone seemed fine with that (I was actually offered the job). There was other members of the faculty who were real Catholics who were excited to show me the chapels on campus and tell me about daily mass. I liked the school a lot, and I’m very sorry to see that they have hired the poster child for dissent from the Church, Charles Curran. If he had to do a 15 minute talk on his place at a Catholic Marianist Institution, I wonder what in the world he said? How could it not have made all faithful Catholics go screaming for teh hills?
From the Dallas News website:
He’s to give a lecture Thursday at SMU titled “The U.S. Catholic Bishops and Abortion Legislation: A Critique From Within the Church.”
The title of the lecture all by itself certainly suggests a dissenting view. Perhaps he can redeem himself and come out in favor of Church teaching on abortion.
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Bobby,
Your experience at SMU is interesting. I’m glad you didn’t take the job, although you’d be great in a debate with him. :) A lesson for all of us. Things are not always as they seem.
Perhaps Curran needs to visit John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. It might help him develop a better understanding of WHY the Vatican upholds Catholic teaching.
There’s no excuse not to study Theology of the Body; it is available in many forms, in books, on CD, etc. I even recommend it for other Christians because I think everyone can benefit from it.