At 11:08 AM 11/13/2003 -0600 Dan Minette wrote:
>The news story reported the Catholic bishops discussing the dismantling of
>this agreement; with sanctions for Catholic public figures who follow it.
>These sanctions can include excommunication from the Catholic church. The
>real inaccuracy in the title was the use of the phrase "to punish." An
>accurate statement would be "are discussing punishing."
The other real inaccuracy in the title was the idea that the Church's
teaching on life come from the Pope.
The Church teachings that all life is precious and sacred, and that no man
has the right to declare some segment of life to be "other" from onesself,
and therfore deny these self-proclaimed "others" the most basic of human
rights. I'd argue that this teaching of "love thy neighbor" is 2000+
years old in the Catholic Church, and certainly doesn't come down from "the
Pope."
>If the punishment is a matter of not giving honorary degrees, I'm not too
>worried.
Nor should anyone be.
JDG
_______________________________________________________
John D. Giorgis - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world,
it is God's gift to humanity." - George W. Bush 1/29/03
_______________________________________________
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
