tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22565042.post4343685105617293244..comments2020-10-14T13:07:12.819-07:00Comments on NO CRYING AT MY FUNERAL - by Paul Dion: RESPECT LIFE SUNDAY -- WHAT LIFE?Papa Puttsshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00565128278576668444noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22565042.post-63848600209385080892007-10-06T07:44:00.000-07:002007-10-06T07:44:00.000-07:00Great reflection, Hubby. Correction though... I wa...Great reflection, Hubby. Correction though... I was not 40... you were approaching 40...so there!<BR/><BR/>Loving wife.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22565042.post-6439742447407261922007-10-05T08:00:00.000-07:002007-10-05T08:00:00.000-07:00Thank you, thank you for making the point that bei...Thank you, thank you for making the point that being pro-life means life for everyone, not just the unborn. Unfortunately, some pro-life activists have closed ears when it comes to issues such as the death penalty, euthanasia... as you mentioned. I would also add the pro-life teaching of a "just war". War is by definition an attack on life. The only time it is a viable option is when it is clearly and immediately defensive. As the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has pointed out, the current war in Iraq does not meet the just war criteria. It is a moral wrong, death dealt daily. <BR/><BR/>We also need to think of the lives of the living. As you pointed out, the people of the Belgian Congo and the sisters raised the children of rape. They came together in an uspeakable situation, and gave life and love to those children, supporting them, taking them in. We need to take the same responsibility in our own communities. We have an obligation as Christians to take care of the weakest in our midst. Yes, I am talking about social justice. That is also a life issue. Things like basic health care, a living wage, workplace safety, are the obvious next logical step in a pro-life worldview. Every one of us was created, and is sustained in being by a God who loves each of us infinitely much. We are called to see each person in the same light.And to not only protect life from immediate death, as in abortion, euthanasia, the death penalty, and unjust war, but to protect it from the protracted death of social injustice. Pro-life and social justice are two sides of the same coin. We have to include both if we are to really be able to say that we respect all life.Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03748431211311627676noreply@blogger.com