Dear readers, there are times when I really wished I only liked tasteful and classical things, those works of art which are a joy that challenges eternity. You know the kind of thing I mean: lines from Milton’s PARADISE LOST or from G.K. Chesterton’s BALLAD OF THE WHITE HORSE or Tennyson’s ULYSSES.
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One Fr. John De Celles, speaking in Old St. Mary’s Church this weekend, delivered a homily to rebuke Nancy Pelosi, who publically offered a gross distortion of the Catholic teaching on aborticide. It is, if you will, the modern version of St. John the Baptist rebuking Herod, another figure who saw nothing wrong in slaying innocent children.
Here is the homily.
For those of you who doubt the antiquity of the teaching:
I also note Fr. De Celles touches on the antiquity of the antislavery teaching in the Church:
For those of you who are not Aquinas scholars, note that the Angelic Doctor never taught that aborticide before ensoulment was licit, merely that the penalty should be less, considering that possibility of honest ignorance on the point of whether destroying an unborn human destroys a human.
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