Abortion doctor charged
with killing 7 babies
Prosecutors allege the babies were born alive
following illegal late-term abortions
and killed with scissors.
A Philadelphia abortion doctor has been charged with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a woman patient and seven babies that prosecutors say were born alive and then killed with scissors.
The charges against Dr. Kermit Gosnell follow a long grand jury investigation.
District Attorney Seth Williams said state regulators ignored complaints and failed to visit the clinic since 1993.
Williams said the women were subjected to squalid and barbaric conditions at Gosnell's Women's Medical Society, which was shut down last year.
Gosnell has been named in at least 10 malpractice suits, including one over the death of a woman who died of sepsis and a perforated uterus.
Late-term procedures
A local CBS station reported that Gosnell's wife and eight other people also were under arrest.
It said the deaths occurred following illegal late-term abortions.
It said four of the suspects were facing multiple murder counts.
In addition, Gosnell was the subject of a federal grand jury investigation relating to the illegal prescribing of prescription drugs, CBS said.
Some $240,000 in cash had been found when his house was searched, the station said, citing investigators.
It added that Gosnell had previously insisted he was innocent of any crimes and predicted he would be acquitted if he was charged.
See:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41154527/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts
Thank God for his arrest; poor babies and Mothers! Now we pray for conversion and the continued prayers that all abortion ceases. Lord have mercy.
Posted by: Adrienne | Saturday, January 22, 2011 at 08:15 AM
St Michael the Archangel, defend us in this day of battle!
Posted by: Catholic Gossip | Sunday, January 23, 2011 at 10:02 AM
Why in the name of decent civilization is their no authority that regulates The Medical Profession. These people seem to have the blessing of Satan himself, but then the Devil takes care of his own, right!/?
We The People somehow allow The Medical Profession to do as they wish, willy nilly, & get away with anything, just look around at their filth. There are no checks & balances, no inspections prior, during & after for these Lords over our lives.
Poor God & Archangel Michael who have to clean up after us. For we just keep letting it happen...is it the sin of Sloth ?
Posted by: Rosie Davis | Sunday, January 23, 2011 at 10:32 PM
Often man asks " where is God," "where was God'" You know maybe, secretly in our hearts, we wished Him "AWAY" because we could not stand to be clean, civilized, educated, respectful of each other, compassionate & decent.
Posted by: Rosie Davis | Sunday, January 23, 2011 at 10:37 PM
ST . MATTHEW 9 :
4. And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?
Posted by: Rosie Davis | Sunday, January 23, 2011 at 11:15 PM
This story is really horrible. All abortion has to cease.
Posted by: Chrétiens persécutés | Tuesday, January 25, 2011 at 08:13 PM
Women need to take control of their lives & their reproductive powers.
"Abortion on demand" is something I have heard....yes !/?
BUT HOW MANY ? per 1 woman!
I have heard of some woman having had even 10 & more abortions in their life time....?
WHY ?
Unless it is a true medical problem & not just a convenient & dramatic & attention seeking way to practice birth control.
1: It does harm to a woman's body & over
all long term health every time.
2: The Medical personal involved, if they
are normal humans, also suffer mental
trauma.
What is going on ?
Posted by: Rosie Davis | Wednesday, February 02, 2011 at 10:38 AM
The apathy that Government shows towards these types of crimes is worse than the murderers that get away with crimes like these. The sad part is that noone at the regulatory level really cares for the loss of so many innocent lives.... Lord Jesus forgive us for we know not how much harm we are doing...
Also, We should not underestimate the powers of intercession for horrors like these...
We really need to pray hard so that atrocities like these come to an end & those little innocents are able to receive deliverance & find eternal peace in Heaven
Posted by: All For the Grace Of God | Thursday, February 03, 2011 at 02:36 AM
Wow, it's a good thing that abortion is legal and that unsafe back-alley abortions have been eliminated, otherwise women's health might be compromised. I wonder how many girls (and future women) had their health and futures ended in so clinical a fashion.
If the evil of slavery led to such a chastisement during the Civil War, what will the consequences be for abortion?
Posted by: James | Friday, February 04, 2011 at 02:42 PM
Just what is the Human Free Will anyhow? We often hear the phrases; “will power”,” free will”, “culpability”, “deliberation” and the like. We hear ascetics, clergymen, alleged psychics, and fitness buffs talk about mind over matter. We are familiar with the phrase “act of will” which seems to imply a distinction between such actions and the faculty of free will itself.
Some spiritual anthropologists will assert that the human Free Will is the most noble and highest of the faculties the human soul which includes the following chief faculties: intellect, will, heart, and memory.
However, intellect, the sensitive and emotional life, and memory are often degraded with old age, brain injury, various mental disorders, substance abuse, intoxication and the like.
But somehow, in some manner, the Human Free Will seems to hang on even if dormant under the above debilitating conditions.
Sacred Scripture asserts that our state after we die is dependent on our free choices made here in this life. It seems that whether we go to Heaven, Purgatory then Heaven, Hell, and Limbo (A conjectural place of natural perfection and perfect natural happiness), our free acts of will have thus determined our state immediately or soon after our passing.
It seems that some souls are so obstinate in their hatred for others and of human life in general that they would rather spend eternity in Hell then to go to Heaven. It is even conceivable that some souls in Hell would prefer to stay in Hell and not go to Heaven even if they were given a second chance by GOD to be brought out of Hell to Heaven.
Clearly, the human Free Will is capable of immutably binding choices and actions even in cases where the ordinary supernatural life of the human soul undergoes corruption by a definitive choice to go to or remain in Hell after Earthly life. The natural life of the human soul is in all cases immortal even for souls that go to Hell or to Limbo if Limbo exists.
This power of human Free Will in a sense seems transcend the life of supernatural grace and in the power of our Free Wills. We are not constrained by GOD to do HIS WILL and can even perform actions that are contrary to GOD’s will. We may even be able to perform GOOD actions that are not constrained by GOD. This power of free will is an awesome responsibility and each of our free acts, especially publicly scrutinizable actions have eternal repercussions for the entire future of human civilization.
In our Free Wills, we can in a real sense transcend causal determinism. This ability is far more profound than any dubious psychic powers such as telekinesis or clairvoyance, which if they exist, are just another mode of psychomotor skills such as moving a muscle and using one’s sensitivity to look with another form of eye.
We modern humans have lost a sense of the reality of the latent power within our Free Wills and the natural miracle that each human free act is. It is by the act of the human will that we choose to co-operate with GOD or choose against GOD. Without human Free Acts, the notion of moral culpability becomes meaningless. Now we cannot merit salvation by our own free acts alone, however, it takes human free acts to cooperate with GOD in morally binding and judgeable manners.
The human free will is radically free whether or not we are in the state of grace or in the state of mortal sin. You don’t believe me. Then how else can our spiritual and immortal souls be judged by our morally binding free acts. It seems that some ascetics so strongly argue that GOD’s Will will be done that they have lost a sense of their own freedom and as a result, sometimes feel as though persons who are habitual sinners cannot become Saints and thus avoid association with such persons.
Some theologians have stated that the Human Will is as if a nature all to itself. With such a profound attribute, should not all of we humans think before we act such as when we are tempted by instinctual revulsion to utter an unkind remark under our breath toward a homeless beggar, a person that seems peculiar in an irksome manner, or a young man or women who habitually dresses in a bazaar manner seemingly with an attitude. The measure of our sanctity is a measure of how kindly we treat such persons especially when we are driven by instinctual first impressions to feel that we are psychologically, spiritually, or intellectually superior to these persons.
Many of us in the Washington D.C. metro area have become obsessed with our appearance or the health and strength of our bodies to the extent that we at times border on living the “Cult of the Body”. There is so much talk of looking professional in the work place and looking sexy and being sexy among our casual acquaintances that we obsess over every detail of our bodies. Perhaps putting more effort in management and maintenance of the faculty and actions of our free will instead would lead us to sanctity much more readily.
These are radical times and radical times call for all willing to step up to the plate to act in radically charitable manners even toward those who we are naturally repulsed by especially those who are least among us. Some the greatest will be among the least, and the least will be greatest.
Let us pay fastidious attention to our wills guided by our conscience re-enforced by Sacramental Absolution in the Confessional so that we do not become the proverbial frog in the warming pot of water. To not do so, might not lead us to Hell, but will most likely at the very least, lengthen our stay in Purgatory.
Besides, doing a kind deed for one of the above least among us may well make him or her a friend of ours for all eternity. This new friend will be exceedingly beautiful to behold in Heaven most assuredly as what is sown in dishonor will arise incorruptible and in glory.
Now, no intention is being made to belittle the sucessfull in as many of enourmously high profile persons have done great good. Among these, are Einstien, Newton, Pope John Paul II, Lincoln, Helen Keller, and the list of those who did great things and who will be rewarded accordingly at the Final Ressurection is far too numerous to be recorded here.
Some of the readership of Encourage And Teach might think that I am some sort of harsh tempered communist type of anti-American. Nothing could be further from the truth . My inner-self image (of myself) even to the level of the emotional aspects of the sense of kinesthesia or sense of body and face is often deeply moved by a strong feeling of nurturance and empathy for those who are viewed as the dregs of society. I feel the same sense of non-judgemental nurturance toward those who are powerful or at the top of the social-economic latter; ironically even more so when such persons display anger or pride in their behavior.
As a large middle age man and a physicist, I am mindful that a true measure of authentic masculinity is not about putting others down, being dominant, ruthless competition, or defending onself or standing up for one’s rights in an overly zealous manner, but is most authentically expressed in nurturing love for every person, especially those who are broken in heart, mind, and spirit.
The new Catechism Of The Catholic Church states the interdependance of all GOD’s creatures. To state that a homeless man begging for money is not our problem, or to gloat over the execution another person on death row as getting his just due, or to ignore a family member or sibling suffering from a serious mental disorder, are behaviors that I can honestly state are one’s that the GOOD LORD will never see me do.
We need to evolve spiritually, socially, and emotionally, into a people that recognizes our interdependence and realize that we are our brother’s keeper. How do we evolve as such? We can best do such by not surpressing our inner sentiments and convictions that the poor homeless man begging for money at a local grocery store is our brother in Christ. Doing a kind deed for the poor beggar might result in us forming a close eternal bond with his gaurdian angel and if nothing else, we should let the thought of having a deep friendship with a non-human spiritual person be a motivator for all of us to treat the least among us with love and respect! As a former UFO- Space Alien phenomenon buff, I used to yearn for contact somehow with any such space aliens. I have never seen a UFO nor have I ever had a telepathic experience, but I will say that we can be absolutely sure that created persons naturally superior to any bodily extraterrestials and ultraterrestrials exist, and these are the numerous, perhaps utterly infinite numbers of angels from the nine choirs we know about from Sacred Scripture.
Each homeless beggar, severely mentally ill person, death row inmate, and baby about to be aborted has his or her very own gaurdian angel. You know the love that a young elementary school aged girl has for her new pet kitten. Well the nurturing love that each one of our gaurdian angels has for us, is perhaps in some way, infinitely more intense, even perhaps at the level of angelic emotions, and I am convinced that angels have feelings which can be seriously hurt by our actions. Let us treat the least among us as their gaurdian angels would have us do.
The poorest of the poor of us are the babies currently being aborted as you read this post. Perhaps about as poor are the women who are crying their way to sleep tonight because of their guilt at having had an abortion perhaps compounded by rejection by family and former friends. Both need our urgent nurturing prayers.
GOD BLESS!
Jim
Posted by: James M Essig | Saturday, February 05, 2011 at 10:59 PM
Well said James......
No one wants any ones life to be at risk in any way, at any time....at least I hope that no one is that twisted!
BUT:
Some guys think it is a great game & virility to romance a dumb "female" & get her pregnant, ha ! ha ! ha ! & even take bets.
Some females now get pregnant as well as loose their virginity .. as a right of passage , proof of female power, & even several times.
It is considered a smart move by some guys to get her pregnant so she does not get away from you, so that you can sponge of her & her family & the kids in the future "till death us do part," some men have a long string of defacto wives just for financial reasons & worse.
Freedom comes with responsibility. We are responsible for this mind set, God wants US to fix these wrong attitudes in society not make things worse...
Education & examples of responsible behavior are in order & consistent rules to live by in actual truth not just talk.
Wisdom chooses to do now what it will be satisfied with later on.
Posted by: Rosie Davis | Sunday, February 06, 2011 at 12:45 PM
Once upon a time it was well known that a dad with a daughter kept his shotgun by the front door & women threw dishes & things when crossed to make their strong feelings known. I would never advocate violence but something's got to give.
They say that average life expectancy is from 67 years to 78 years old therefore middle age is 33 to 39 years old for most of us. We need to live the best years of our lives with pride & self respect & dignity & fun, not misery.
Posted by: Rosie Davis | Sunday, February 06, 2011 at 01:14 PM
Hi Rosie Davis;
Thanks for responding to my above post.
I completely agree with you about the sinfullness of guys who use women especially in the above manners you mentioned.
I think it would be good for guys to remind themselves in such cases that the women they are about to use and abuse are especially modeled in destiny as being in the likeness of Our Lord Jesus, but also in a special way by the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Unfortunately, many guys think one night stands are cool or hip and as you said, many view getting a woman pregnant as a right of passage to boast about.
This is one of the sad realities resulting from the infusement of the modern entertainment media with un-Christain examples of sexual expression.
Posted by: James M Essig | Sunday, February 06, 2011 at 04:04 PM
Valentines Day Prayer of a single physicist for the civil development of a more authentic respect for human sexuality in contempary society.
Dear Lord Jesus and Mary Mother of GOD ever virgin. You chose the celibate life not out of distain for human sexuality but rather to consecrate heroically and enhance your humanity in all things sensitive, affective, and emotional. Being mindful that human sexuality is such an integral part of our psychic life, even for those who unlike me, have same sex attractions or temptations to such, I am also mindful that in ways and means perhaps not understood fully be humanity at present, our limited human sexuality in this life will too in a sense be Resurrected complete although in angelic purity at the Final Resurrection of the Dead at the End of Time and may also exist for those in Heaven and in Purgatory in ways not clearly discernable by we human still alive on Earth simply because Purgatory then Heaven accentuate our personalities instead of corrupting them and because GOD has made us in HIS Image and likeness, Male and Female.
I therefore offer up my solely and fully heterosexuality to live out my life as a single man as a sacrifice so that those looking for authentic human heterosexual romance can find the partner of their dreams which for Catholics seeking the married life, should be at least under ordinary circumstance, full Holy Matrimony.
For all of those who are insecure about their sexuality and who have been bullied in sexual manners, sexually abused, or who have non-violent as well as violent sexual crimes committed against them, I offer up my life and sexuality as a single man as a sacrifice so that all such persons can come to a peaceful acceptance of their sexuality and know that You cherish them as another self in all things emotional and affective, big and small.
For those struggling with sexual identity and insecurities regarding their sexuality, I offer up my full and solely heterosexuality as a sacrifice so that they can find peaceful acceptance of their sexualities.
For those whose capacity for sexual feelings has been eroded due to physical or emotional disability, injury, or illness, and who want very much to regain the use of their degraded ability for sexual expression, I pray for their complete healing in these regards. However, in cases where you deem such healing is un-necessary and where these persons desire opposite sex attraction based romantic affection which is also an aspect of human sexuality, I pray that all such persons find authentic romantic love and affection under the guiding principles of proper Christian ethics regarding human romantic attraction.
I am mindful that although Angels lack sexual identity, they too have emotions and feelings, perhaps in some manners far more intense than we humans have due to their natural elevation of their basic created natures above humanity due to the fact that they have no bodies as they are pure spirits and are therefore unlimited in emotional and affective expression by a finite brain or a central nervous system of any sort. However, I offer up my sexuality in my committed single life so that the angels in Heaven can in some mysterious manner currently veiled to human understanding express any willfully desired affection among themselves in Heaven, even if at a level that is more spiritualized and sublime than ways and manners of romantic human affectionate emotional and affective expression than we can understand on Earth.
I offer up my sexuality in the single life so that all of those who validly desire and are looking for romantic love as a male or female spouse with a person of the opposite sex will be graced with finding their dream soul-mate in opposite sex marriage regardless of their religious faith or lack thereof. Even in cases where such marriage is to be among non-Catholics such as between persons of other faiths, or even between self-described atheists and agnostics, I pray that their marriage bonds lead them to a more authentic humanity guided by principles of procreation set by GOD in natural law.
And lastly, I pray that for all other human persons who have made the decision as I have to remain single, as well as Catholic Religious and those who have been admitted to the Catholic Clerical State through sacramental Ordination, and who are unduly repressive or insecure about their sexuality will become more at peace with their sexuality and thereby offer it up in a more authentic manner as consecrated celibate mature men and women.
Our Lord Jesus, who was and is perfectly human yet Divine, in your human nature you share all things authentic that we do. For you can relate to every one of our temptations including those of a sexual nature. I therefore offer up all of the temptations to sexual impurity experienced by me as well as the same for all other single men and women who have also definitively decided to remain single, as a sacrifice for those looking for authentic human romance and heterosexual romantic love to find it this Valentine’s day or soon after.
We as the civilization of humanity need more of affective, sensitive, and emotional love and less of the violence, hate, and interpersonal aversion that has marked the second half of the 20th Century and which still marks the civilization of humanity to this present day.
GOD BLESS!
Jim
On a final note, perhaps if more men and women committed to the single life or to the consecrated religious or clerical state prayed several times a day in a similar manner as the spiritual sentiments expressed in my above willfull and heartfelt prayer, the problem of those seeking to assert themselves an in undully financially manner under the guise of wanting to or desiring to be undully independent would be remedied and muted with a proper sense of the interdependance of all creatures as willed by GOD which is clearly stated in the new Catechism of the Catholic Church.
GOD BLESS!
Jim
Posted by: James M Essig | Saturday, February 12, 2011 at 07:39 AM
What! This is appalling! Thank you for shedding light on this topic.
Posted by: Church Supplies | Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at 12:01 PM
I'm all for sexual activity, it's kind of nice, fun, a passionate way to express feelings for each other, a stress release so we don't go around abusing or killing each other. Have we all heard the saying " she/he needs a good (run around the garden)" when someone was very stroppy, to say the least?
But I think we have fallen down a rabbit hole, a bit like Alice, or some other horrible thing & lost all perspective. A hard core, Gorden Gecko, greed riddled snatch & grab mentality lifestyle seems to be running ramped. We need to build a brick wall for it to run into I imagine.
Posted by: Rosie Davis | Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at 04:08 PM
Regarding the many sins of mankind of which sins against human life under the guise of the label pro-choice are most serious.
Regarding Our Lady Of Akita Japan And Her Dire Warnings, Need I Say Anything Else.
If this post is removed, no problem. I have already posted it on my website.
From the website, http://www.michaeljournal.org/akita.htm
In the chapel, the statue of the Virgin Mary came to life, and a voice of indescribable beauty struck her totally-deaf ears. This was to be the first Message of Mary:
“My daughter, My novice, you have obeyed Me well in abandoning all to follow Me. Is the infirmity of your ears painful? Your deafness will be healed, be sure. Be patient. It is the last trial. Does the wound of your hand cause you to suffer? Pray in reparation for the sins of men. Each person in this community is My irreplaceable daughter. Do you say well the prayer of the Handmaids of the Eucharist? Then, let us pray it together:
“Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, truly present in the Holy Eucharist, I consecrate my body and soul to be entirely one with Your Heart, being sacrificed at every instant on all the altars of the world and giving praise to the Father, pleading for the coming of His Kingdom. Please receive this humble offering of myself. Use me as You will for the glory of the Father and the salvation of souls.
“Most Holy Mother of God. Never let me be separated from Your Divine Son. Please defend and protect me as Your special child. Amen.”
As her Guardian Angel had told her, a cross-shaped wound, similar to that of Sister Agnes, appeared in the right hand of the statue of the Blessed Virgin, and blood started to flow.
On August 3, 1973, the First Friday of the month, Sister Agnes received the second Message from Mary:
“My daughter, My novice, do you love the Lord? If you love the Lord, listen to what I have to say to you. It is very important. You will convey it to your superior.
“Many men in this world afflict the Lord. I desire souls to console Him to soften the anger of the Heavenly Father. I wish, with My Son, for souls who will repair, by their suffering and their poverty, for the sinners and ingrates.
“In order that the world might know His anger, the Heavenly Father is preparing to inflict a great chastisement on all mankind. With My Son, I have intervened so many times to appease the wrath of the Father. I have prevented the coming of calamities by offering Him the sufferings of the Son on the Cross, His Precious Blood, and beloved souls who console Him and form a cohort of victim souls.
“Prayer, penance, and courageous sacrifices can soften the Father's anger. I desire this also from your community, that it love poverty, that it sanctify itself and pray in reparation for the ingratitude and outrages of so many men. Recite the prayer of the Handmaids of the Eucharist with awareness of its meaning; put it into practice: offer (whatever God may send) in reparation for sins. Let each one endeavour, according to her capacity and position, to offer herself entirely to the Lord.
“Even in a secular institute, prayer is necessary. Already souls who wish to pray are on the way to being gathered. Without attaching too much attention to the form, be faithful and fervent in prayer to console the Master.”
It was on Saturday, October 13, the anniversary day of the last Apparition of the Virgin Mary to the three children of Fatima, that Mary gave to Sister Agnes Her third Message, the most important and serious one:
“If men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge, such as one will never have seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead. The only arms which will remain for you will be the Rosary and the Sign left by My Son. Each day recite the prayers of the Rosary. With the Rosary, pray for the Pope, the Bishops and the priests.
“The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see Cardinals opposing Cardinals, Bishops against other Bishops. The priests who venerate Me will be scorned and opposed by their confreres (other priests). Churches and altars will be sacked. The Church will be full of those who accept compromises, and the demon will press many priests and consecrated souls to leave the service of the Lord.
“The demon will be especially implacable against the souls consecrated to God. The thought of the loss of so many souls is the cause of My sadness. If sins increase in number and gravity, there will no longer be pardon for them.
“...Pray very much the prayers of the Rosary. I alone am able to still save you from the calamities which approach. Those who place their confidence in Me will be saved.”
The last Sunday of May, 1982, during the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, Sister Agnes was completely cured from her deafness.
Approval of the local Bishop
After having himself been an eyewitness of the events, and having carefully investigated them for years, Most Rev. John Shojiro Ito, Bishop of Niigata (the diocese Akita belongs to) declared the events of Akita, Japan, to be of supernatural origin, and authorized throughout the entire diocese the veneration of the Holy Mother of Akita, in a long message which he ordered to be read in every parish of his diocese on Easter Sunday, April 22, 1984.. He said: “The Message of Akita is the Message of Fatima.”
Approval of Rome
Bishop Ito went to Rome a third time in June of 1988 to seek the opinion of the Holy See. “I was worried because of the seriousness of the Message,” he said. Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, the Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, reassured Bishop Ito that he had acted properly, and gave definitive judgement on the Akita events and Messages as reliable and worthy of belief.
I just thought that I would warn everyone.
Jim
Posted by: James M Essig | Monday, February 21, 2011 at 11:16 AM
What does it mean so say that GOD is LOVE?
To answer this question, let us consider some fundamental truths about the nature of the HOLY TRINITY.
First, THE HOLY TRINITY is in a predominant or a primary aspect, a LIFE OF PURE MUTUAL INTER-RELATIONSHIP between the persons of GOD THE FATHER, GOD THE SON, and GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT. A primary aspect of the HOLY TRINITY is the mutual inter-relationships from among and within the THREE DIVINE PERSONS.
Second, a primary aspect of the above life of mutual interpersonal relationship is that it is one of PURE LOVE, both given in an infinity enjoyed manner, and received in an infinity enjoyed manner.
However, the DIVINE NATURE has an existence that is one with its BEING. This BEING, or the I AM THAT I AM, is precisely and absolutely, perfect, unbounded LOVE and then so IMHO, in an absolutely, perfect, and unbounded variety of forms: For what ultimate reality should not also be unboundedly, existentially rich, complete, and full.
We can use common notions that GOD is made out of LOVE, but such an intellectually immature notion would imply that GOD is constructed out of something. Rather than have a material composition whether the material is physical or spiritual, the DIVINE ESSENCE OR BEING IS ITS OWN EXISTENCE AND THE DIVINE CHARACTERISTICS ARE THE SAME REALITY AS THE DIVINE NATURE, ESSENSE, OR BEING.
Even if the entire supply of Consecrated Sacred Hosts and Wine as the body and blood of Our Lord Jesus was somehow annihilated such as by an unfortuitous nuclear fusion ignition of Earth’s oceans such as by a special form of underwater nuclear explosion that would concentrate the nuclear blast energy by up to 6 orders of magnitude over a traditional spherically symmetrically exploding nuke, thus vaporizing the entire planet, the DIVINE NATURE would continue to exist utterly unharmed or immutably un-corrupted.
We sometimes like to box GOD in by thinking and saying how HE should be, and the truth is that GOD is LOVE that clearly states in the Old Testament that I AM THAT I AM.
This “I AM THAT I AM” leads us to contemplate the HOLY TRINITY as deeply as we have been allowed or permitted by GOD to understand HIM, but I can assure the reader, that GOD goes unlimitedly far beyond this in terms of what is possible to abstractly know about HIM. It is time that all clergyman, laity, religious, scientists, health care professionals, business persons, policy makers, and the rest of us to more fully trust in DIVINE PROVIDENCE and except that a human embryo is a complete person and must never be destroyed for any purpose. After all, this “I AM THAT I AM” known as DIVINE LOVE loves each embryo that comes into being.
As a physicist who works in the applied theoretical physics discipline of interstellar propulsion technologies and who has a reference book on this subject currently being edited by a professional editor services firm in Canada, and who has many additional textbooks on the subject in the planning stages, my arcane scientific acumen has not blinded me to the existence of the nature of GOD and the need for a reverential respect for the sanctity of all human life, but has enabled me to see the potential for essentially unlimited growth of the human population as we reach out into the vast cosmos. We as human persons can profoundly alter the course of future cosmic history by promoting what is best of our species, the ability to procreate, or if decidedly single as I am, or as a consecrated religious, consecrated virgin, or clergyman, support the Church Teaching that artificial contraception is morally wrong, as is the destruction of human embryos and fetuses, even in cases of rape or incest. A child is a child from the moment of conception.
GOD BLESS!
Jim
Posted by: James M Essig | Monday, March 14, 2011 at 05:30 PM
This story really breaks my heart. The poor babies, and the poor mothers. I am disappointed in the mothers, as well as this cruel man. If they did not want the child they should have never had sex to begin with. They also should have never gotten an abortion especially during a late-term because that baby is alive! It is another person who is waiting to come into this world. If the mother did not want a child she could have put it up for adoption. There is absolutely no need for an abortion ever. I am glad this man is in jail. No one deserves to have their life taken away, especially child.
Posted by: Taylor Zoccoli | Monday, April 18, 2011 at 06:47 AM