Is the Vatican really against abortion, or does it just want more Catholic babies to keep the church in power?

Question

Can you ever believe what a religious leader tells you, or do they all have ulterior motives?

Answer 1

you shouldn't talk about the Vatican like that

Answer 2

Yes.

The Catholic Church has been pro-life for about 2,000 years. She has not wavered in her belief that God endows each human beng with a soul, dignity, and human rights from the moment of conception.

You shall not kill. (Ex 20:13; cf. Deut 5:17)

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you. (Jer 1:5; cf. Job 10:8-12; Ps 22:10-11)

My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately wrought in the depths of the earth. (Ps 139:15)

Early Church writings: You shall not kill the embryo by abortion and shall not cause the newborn to perish. (Didache 2, 2: SCh 248, 148; cf. Ep. Barnabae 19, 5: PG 2, 777; Ad Diognetum 5, 6: PG 2, 1173; Tertullian, Apol. 9: PL 1, 319-320)

For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, sections 2270 and following: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt3s...

With love in Christ.

Answer 3

Leviticus 18. 1 - 30

Leviticus  20 .1 - 27

What do you think?

Answer 4

I think you know the answer to that question.

Answer 5

What a cynical question! The Church will have power regardless of how many people are in it because, unlike a democracy, power in the Church has its roots in the Divinity of Christ.

If you look at the history of the Catholic Church, abortion has always been condemned, and the rise in popular acceptance of abortion has only brought out more stern condemnation of the practice. The reasons for opposting abortion stem from Scripture and the explicit moral teachings of the Church. They are well-founded and not just some new thing.

Answer 6

Mother Theresa said this about abortion... "I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child - a direct killing of the innocent child - murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts. Jesus gave even his life to love us. So the mother who is thinking of abortion, should be helped to love - that is, to give until it hurts her plans, or her free time, to respect the life of her child. The father of that child, whoever he is, must also give until it hurts. By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems. And by abortion, the father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. That father is likely to put other women into the same trouble. So abortion just leads to more abortion. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching the people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. That is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion. "

Answer 7

Yes they are against abortion.And some methods of birth control.