Respect Life - National Life Chain Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010

Respect Life – National Life Chain Sunday, October 3, 2010
Press Release

Royce Dunn, Director of Life Chain – Royce@NationalLifeChain.org – Phone – 530-674-5068

“Above all else, National Life Chain Sunday 2010 urges the corporate church across the U.S., Canada, and beyond to end its abandonment of preborn humanity. Toward that urgency, Life Chain asks clergy to please lead their people, young and old to their local sidewalks on Sunday, afternoon, October 3, to earnestly seek God’s Intervention. The church’s détente with child killing must end. Pulpit and pew must contend for mercy and justice. Wrote Jehuda Bauer of the Jewish Holocaust: “Thou shalt not be a victim; thou shalt not be a perpetrator; but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.”

“Much as Nazism relied on church apathy to enable cruelty, Supreme Court jurists in 1973 saw in America a church given notably to self-interest, materialism, and unmistakable aversion to children. They foresaw complaint without care, fret without fight, and loss of integrity without shame. Following Roe vs. Wade, church structures grew in size, elegance and comfort as deaths of mutilated preborn Americans rose to tens of millions. Then in 1992, the Court revisited child aversion and reconfirmed Roe with words that speak volumes about church and culture. Wrote the court in Planned Parenthood vs. Casey: “ … the abortion decision is of the same character as the decision to use contraception [and} for two decades… people have organized intimate relationships {and relied} on the availability of abortion in the event contraception should fail.” …

“Into his 1900-year history of pro-life, George Grant wrote the Abortion Holocaust: “It seems that during much of the twentieth century, the memory of the church was erased. Its books, its culture, and its history were all but destroyed in the mad rush toward modernity. The community of faith forgot what it was and what it should have been. The result was that, that despite the heroic efforts of a remnant of dissenters, the needy, the innocent, and the helpless lost their one sure advocate … the only urgency that drove much of the church during this dark period in history was its own satisfaction.” German theologian Helmut Thielicke wrote of worship and worshippers his homeland during the Nazi era:”The church had overlooked its greatest danger, namely that in gaining the whole world it might lose its own soul.”…

George H. Kubeck

P.S. I have prayed today’s Liturgy of the Hours. The “Pastoral Guide of St. Gregory the Great, pope” is a thousand times stronger than the above by Royce Dunn. I hesitated to write it out. You read it. Enough said!