October 12, 2012
The rebellious disdainers of Pope Paul VI’s Humanae Vitae, and those who still reject this encyclical and Casti Conubii, Pope Pius XI’s encyclical on married life, probably never expected that the most powerful country in the world economically and militarily would one day elect a President who supported finishing off babies who survived abortion. Because abortion “rights” was just a hop, skip, and a jump away from the use of artificial contraception. Everything Pope Paul VI foretold in Humanae Vitae has come to pass, and beyond that even.
Now we are faced with an opportunity to begin a re-orienting of the popular culture to God. It will happen through the little daily acts that belong to each person calling himself Christian. One place it will start will be on election day, 2012, when people all over the country will have a clear choice between the purveyors of life and those of death. Will we take the trouble to vote that day? What will each of us choose?
Before you fill in the little circles or punch the buttons in the voting booth, Baby Boomers, here’s something else to consider. If it’s OK under the law to kill babies in the womb, do you think your relatives will hesitate to kill you when you are helpless in a hospital or nursing home bed because you have become and inconvenience to their “freedom” and financial ambitions? It’s our generation that opened these doors and the “death panels” are already in place.
Here is a video to help us think about “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
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