Cardinal Justin Rigali and President George W. Bush

Pro-Life Challenge
‘Golden Calf,’ Says Cardinal
National Catholic Register Article, August 19, 2007
Arlington, Va. – Like the Israelites who idolized the golden calf, the pro-life movement is challenged today by “the idolatrous gospel of total autonomy, sheer utility and false mercy,” Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia told a gathering in Arlington.
The cardinal, who chairs the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, spoke on the opening day of annual conference of directors of diocesan pro-life offices and state Catholic conferences, sponsored by the bishops’ pro-life secretariat.
“Those who have blind faith in embryonic stem-cell research and its so-called ‘biblical power to cure’ – as House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi called it recently – are worshipping a modern-day false idol,” Cardinal Rigali said. “They are putting their faith in an exaggerated view of the wonders of science and in their own ingenuity to overcome disease and aging.”
Similarly, the Israelites, who in the bible account freed from bondage in Egypt, disobeyed God by worshipping the golden calf while Moses was on Mount Sinai, he said.
“In their impatience, stubbornness and disobedience, they created out of their own possessions – their own jewelry and valuables – a god they could control,” he said. “A god they shaped, rather than one they would be shaped by.”
Those who support abortion “have also exchanged the truth for a lie” by promoting abortion “as a way to further women’s freedom,” Cardinal Rigali said.
“Instead of affirming the inviolable dignity of human life, the dignity of women and respect for the integrity of sexual relations and motherhood, they asset a false notion of freedom made in their own image, a self-made ethic that justifies their own choices,” he said.
But the cardinal cited several signs of encouragement for the pro-life movement, including changing public opinion about abortion, the U.S. Supreme Court decision affirming the ban on partial-birth abortion and the Philadelphia City Council’s quick reversal earlier this year of a declaration that it was “a pro-choice city.”

P.S. I believe that someone should write a book about the most pro-life, pro-woman, pro-family President in U.S. history. With his faith-base initiative programs, several laws protecting the unborn and his two Supreme Court appointees, President Bush deserves that honor. (Be aware that 51 % of the manufactured hatred towards the President is religious-prejudice. 1) He is a practicing Christian and not a Christian-in-name-only. 2) Jesus is his favorite philosopher. 3) He appreciates prayers said for him.)

Hopefully, life, family and tradition will win again in 2008. In a few days, it’s Run Fred Run. CINOP Giuliani will do well with a cabinet post of homeland security. Fred’s victory will drive the secularists and elitists up the wall. (Be aware that 80% of the news media has that elite secular religion and identifies with the Democratic Party agenda.)

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