Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life)Pope John Paul

Title: AbortionLO: Where do Catholics gather their opinions on the issue of abortion?

Quick catch upWhat did we think of the talk yesterday? What did we like about it? Would we like to have a Q& A section sometime i@ the beginning of next term?There are three sources of Catholic Ethics:

ScriptureTraditionThe Magisterium

Scripture The inspired Word of God. The primary and most important source as it contains the record of Gods self-revelation firstly in the life of the people of Israel and then in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. EG: The Ten Commandments.The Beatitudes.

ScriptureGod created human beings in his own image; Male and Female God created them. Genesis 1:27 For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mothers womb. I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; that I know very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. You eyes beheld my informed substance. In your book were written all the days that were formed for me, when none of them yet existed. Psalm 139: 13 -16We love because he first loved us1 John 4:19

THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT Thou shall not kill

Catechism of the Catholic Church

A manual of instruction in Christian doctrine

2270 Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person - among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life.

2271 Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured(intentional) abortion, as it is gravely contrary to the moral law:

2274 Since it must be treated from conception as a person, the embryo must be defended in its integrity, cared for, and healed, as far as possible, like any other human being

Note: Every foetus has the potential to acquire each of those characteristics we looked at yesterday in order to become human.

A scenarioAnswer these questions in bullet points on your own1)What issues are at stake?2)What advice would you give to Ben and to his sister? Why?3) What choices are available to Ben and his sister?Ben Folds Five- Brick6 am day after ChristmasI throw some clothes on in the darkThe smell of coldCar seat is freezingThe world is sleepingI am numb

Up the stairs to her apartmentShe is balled up on the couchHer mom and dad went down to Charlottethey're not home to find us outAnd we drive

Now that I have found someoneI'm feeling more aloneThan I ever have beforeShe's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

they call her name at 7:30I pace around the parking lotthen I walk down to buy her flowersAnd sell some gifts that I got

Can't you seeIt's not me you're dying forNow she's feeling more aloneThen she ever has beforeShe's a brick and I'm drowning slowlyoff the coast and I'm headed nowhereShe's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

As weeks went byIt showed that she was not fineThey told me son it's time to tell the truthShe broke down and I broke downCause I was tired of lying

Driving back to her apartmentFor the moment we're aloneShe's aloneI'm aloneNow I know it

6 am day after ChristmasI throw some clothes on in the darkThe smell of coldCar seat is freezingThe world is sleepingI am numb"

Because it was going to be the only time Ben's girlfriend's parents would be away, they had to go to get the abortion the day after Christmas. Ben wasn't feeling good about it at all, he felt horrible because he felt it was all his fault and he wasn't too happy about the concept of abortion. This first verse is just describing him waking up the morning the abortion is to take place, getting dressed, getting in his cold car in the early morning while everyone else is asleep and then going to pick up his girlfriend.

"Up the stairs to her apartmentShe is balled up on the couchHer mom and dad went down to Charlottethey're not home to find us outAnd we drive"

Ben was from Chapel Hill, NC and he told me his girlfriend and her family lived in an apartment in Raleigh (only 15-20 miles away). Just as the song says: He got there, went up the stairs to her apartment and finds her in a ball on the coach. His parents and her parents had no idea that she was pregnant or about the abortion. Her parents had went to Charlotte to visit family and she had said she was too sick to go. So her parents weren't home to find out what they were going to do. They got in his car and drove to the abortion clinic.

"Now that I have found someoneI'm feeling more aloneThan I ever have before"

He felt this way because he felt it was all his fault and he felt like no one could relate to his situation that he knew, thus, he felt alone.

"She's a brick and I'm drowning slowlyoff the coast and I'm headed nowhereShe's a brick and I'm drowning slowly"

Even though he blamed himself for what had happened, he felt like his relationship with his girlfriend was now drowning him. He was ruining his life now and throwing it away, but at the same time he deep down didn't want her to get an abortion, because he didn't want to kill his unborn child."they call her name at 7:30I pace around the parking lotthen I walk down to buy her flowersAnd sell some gifts that I got"

At 7:30 in the morning they call her name in the Abortion Clinic to get the abortion. A lot was going through Ben's head, he was also worried about his girlfriend so he paced around in the parking lot and than went and brought her flowers and sold some gifts he got for Christmas to help pay for the abortion.

"Can't you seeIt's not me you're dying forNow she's feeling more aloneThen she ever has before"

The first two lines he's talking directly to his unborn child. He didn't agree with the abortion and didn't want to "kill" his unborn baby, so he's telling his baby that he didn't want it and he/she is "dying" because his girlfriend (the unborn child's mother) wants it. The next two lines are referring to how his girlfriend is in the clinic getting an abortion and he can't be there, so she's feeling alone.

"As weeks went byIt showed that she was not fineThey told me son it's time to tell the truthShe broke down and I broke downCause I was tired of lying"

Weeks later, his girlfriend started to feel guilt and sadness over what had happened and both Ben's parents and her parents noticed. Eventually Ben's parents confronted him and her about it and told him to tell the truth and they both broke down and told the truth. Just as it says in the song, Ben did it because he was "tired of lying."

"Driving home to her apartmentFor the moment we're aloneShe's aloneI'm aloneNow I know it"

After they told Ben's parents the truth, he drove her home. They were alone for the moment because they were together and didn't have to face her parents yet. But, they weren't alone together, she was alone in her own world and he was alone in his and what do you ask he meant by the line "now I know it"? What exactly did he know? He knew that what had happened had ruined their relationship and tainted their love.

TraditionThe record of the believing community. What is passed on to the current community from the ancestors in faith starting with the apostles and those who have succeeded them.Creeds.Decrees of Church councils.Treatises.Theological works of scholars.

The Magisterium The teaching body of the Church carried out by the Pope and the Bishops that comes to them from Jesus.Papal Encyclicals, Pastoral letters from Bishops,

Papal EncyclicalsA Papal Encyclical is the name typically given to a letter written by a Pope to a particular audience of Bishops. This audience of Bishops may beall of the Bishops in a specific country or all of the Bishops in all countries throughout the world.

Encyclicals:

Humanae Vitae (On Human Life) July 25, 1968 [Encyclical] of Pope Paul VI Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life) March 25, 1995 of Pope John-Paul IICasti Connubii (On Christian Marriage) December 31, 1930 of Pope Pius XI

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