The Unborn, Abortion, Voting, Fatima # 9 of 12

These letters are sent to commemorate the gathering in Nashville, Tennessee of the 125th Knights to Columbus Convention. They are also intended to persuade the Supreme Grand Knight Carl A. Anderson that the 16 Legislators in Massachusetts who blocked the Marriage Amendment Vote for 2008 be notified of censure by the Supreme Council.

The Unborn, Abortion, Voting, Fatima, # 9

Saturday, Aug. 4th, 2007

What does all of the above mean to Catholics and other Christians? It means that Father Gregory Staab has something to say and not say something. It means that pro-choice has no leg to stand on. It means that all of us have a reasonable and common sense message for teaching, for conversion, and for evangelizing. The following paragraphs are direct quotes from Father Staab’s one hour tape, What Happened at Fatima # 9.

"One of the things too, that propped up in the Church in the last years is the reality of what is called Project Rachel which is to help women who have had abortions and help them go through a healing process. One of things too why did women have an abortion because they were despairing. They felt that there was no hope. What happened after they had the abortion? The depression became even deeper. Many of these women feel that this was the first really big sin that they have ever committed in their life. And some of them have the idea that it is an unforgivable sin.

"It’s amazing too you know, every year I ask my Confirmation Class kids. How many think that abortion can be forgiven? And every year I always find these kids who believe that abortion cannot be forgiven. Believe that it’s just an incredible sin. Now, if they believe that intellectually, how much more do women feel that in their hearts who actually done it. Even though, that they may know intellectually in some way that they could be forgiven they don’t feel it. They don’t experience it.

"Many of them feel that if they go into a Catholic Church, walk into the Church, the whole building would collapse in on top of them. And so they stay as far away as possible. They don’t even want to think about God. They don’t want to pray. They don’t want to deal with the whole reality of the issue….

"The Church gives the message of hope. There is hope. There is hope before the abortion. There is {are} always alternatives. There is something God wants. There is a mission for that child. There is a mission for the parents and after the abortion as well there is hope. The woman can be forgiven. John Paul II tells women who have had abortions: Nothing is definitively lost, nothing is definitively lost. Your child is living with the Lord. You can be reconciled with your child. People can be forgiven. They can be healed and they can become heralds of life revealing the value of human life.

"Women in a certain sense are the greatest testimony to the life of the child within the womb even more so than a biologist or a doctor. She experiences it in her heart that that was a child, that was a human being someone who was created in the image and likeness of God.

"Something too that is very important to note is that adoption is a very good thing. There are certain people who almost always have the idea that they would almost prefer to have their child killed rather than giving the child up for adoption. This also has been studied that adoption is a very good thing for the child and it’s a very good thing as well for the unwed mother. There are and this is a very large had to believe statistic but it’s true. There are about 2 million couples who long to adopt a child, 2 million couples and yet only 50,000 non-related children are placed for adoption every year."Many of these 2 million couples would want to have 2 or more children to adopt but they are just not there. And when you consider that only 50 thousand non-related children are place up for adoption every year and you have about l.3 million abortions every year, 2 million couples who want to adopt even more than one child even of all these abortion, they were all these children were born and given to a family. There still would be more families that would want to have a child."Studies have consistently shown that these children who are given up for adoption right after birth, if they are taken right from the hospital to the family do much better than children who are raised by their single biological mother. They repeat grades less, need mental health professionals, have better health, and have better standing in their school classes, have fewer behavior problems…"
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish.