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Major Vatican Victory for Pro-Life Activists as Vatican Newspaper Rehabilitates Heroically Pro-Life Brazilian Bishop...

"My child, in the great trial ahead in My Son's House, Church on earth, there shall be bishop against bishop and cardinal against cardinal, as satan has set himself in their midst. My warnings at Fatima were cast aside as they are being cast aside now, My children. It is a failing of human nature, My child, that that which does not give pleasure to the carnal nature of man is not accepted. Man shall blind himself to the truth, as he does not wish to face the truth. And those who seek to bring him the truth are cast aside and do much penance, My child." - Our Lady of the Roses, September 13, 1975
 

LifeSiteNews.com reported on July 13, 2009:

"Retractions. The Holy Office Teaches Archbishop Fisichella a Lesson": that is how long-time Vatican expert reporter Sandro Magister of Chiesa characterized an article published Friday in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano by the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith (CDF). (see coverage here)

A March 15 article by the head of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Archbishop Salvatore (Rino) Fisichella, created a substantial outcry from pro-life leaders internationally who said it besmirched the reputation of strongly pro-life Brazilian Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, Jose Cardoso Sobrinho, and also left many to believe that the Church had weakened its teaching against abortion.

The clarification, in addition to restating the Church's stance on abortion - including the teaching that those directly involved in an abortion are automatically excommunicated - also cleared Archbishop Cardoso of any wrongdoing. Fisichella's article, entitled "On the Side of the Brazilian Girl," criticized Cardoso for announcing that automatic excommunication would be incurred by the abortionists in the hard case of a nine-year-old rape victim who was found to be carrying twins. Fisichella did not call Archbishop Sobrinho to verify the facts of the case before criticizing him in the pages of the Vatican newspaper.  

Fisichella wrote: "Before thinking about excommunication, it was necessary and urgent to safeguard her innocent life and bring it up to a level of humanity for which we men of the Church should have been the professional heralds and teachers.  It did not happen so, and unfortunately, this has affected the credibility of our teaching."

The CDF clarification says the opposite, observing that the girl "had been accompanied with all pastoral delicacy, in particular by the archbishop of Olinda and Recife at the time, His Excellency Archbishop Jose Cardoso Sobrinho."

The move is especially significant as Archbishop Fisichella had rejected a request from 27 of the 46 Members of the Pontifical Academy for Life (of which he is the president) to correct his article of March 15.

The initial refusals to correct the article were devastating for the pro-life movement worldwide. The secular press and the pro-abortion lobby responded promptly to the article, with headlines and hundreds of articles and editorials claiming that Fisichella was hinting at a softening of the Church's position on abortion. The Associated Press announced, "Vatican prelate defends abortion for 9-year-old." The Washington Post said, "Vatican Official Defends Child's Abortion."

Significantly, Fisichella's article was highly praised by Frances Kissling, the former president of Catholics for a Free Choice, an abortion lobby group that presents itself as Catholic and attempts to pressure the Catholic Church to abandon its teachings on life and family.

In a widely published essay, Kissling called Fisichella's article "an amazing shift in the Vatican's strategy of no dissent from its position that direct abortion is never permitted." She said it was a "modest deviation" that "opens the door for Catholics who follow church teachings on reproduction to discuss the possibility that there are some cases officially acknowledged where individuals can choose abortion and have a calm conscience."

The clarification is an impressive compilation of most of the strongest statements of the Church in defense of human life.  It runs through teachings from the Bible, the early Church, Councils and Popes, reaffirming constantly that abortion is absolutely prohibited and an "abominable crime."

Judie Brown, one of the Members of the Pontifical Academy told LifeSiteNews.com she was very pleased with the CDF clarification. Brown, who is also the President of American Life League Brown, noted that the Vatican examined carefully the ramifications of what the archbishop had said, and the effect it had on the faithful and thus decided to issue the clarification, forcefully restating the Church's teaching on the evil of abortion.

Brown compared the matter to that of the ongoing saga in Canada where the Canadian Bishops Conference is denying the funding of pro-abortion groups in the developing world by its official development arm, despite clear evidence demonstrating otherwise.  She suggested that if the Vatican itself could re-examine a situation and issue a clarification, the Canadian bishops could also do likewise.

John Smeaton, President of England's largest pro-life group - the Society for the Protection of Unborn Chilren (SPUC) - was one of the key pro-life voices in the Fisichella/Sobrinho controversy.  Smeaton says he sees in the CDF clarification a major victory and expressed congratulations to all those involved, including LSN.

"LifeSite and along with it many other major groups and leading figures within the Church raised their deep concerns about issues touched upon in Archbishop Fisichella's original article," said Smeaton in a phone interview from England.  "I feel they ought to be congratulated for their fortitude and their adherence to the hard facts of the matter.  And indeed their charity in raising this matter for the good of the Church, for the protection of the reputation of a magnificent pastor - Archbishop Cardoso and ultimately for the protection of the family at the centre of this tragic episode."

The pro-life leader closest to the action in the case was Human Life International's Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro. Speaking to LSN from the Rome office of HLI, he described the CDF clarification as a heaven-sent victory, and specifically thanked LSN for its coverage of the issue.

"This document of clarification published by the CDF, as it states in the document itself, is the outcome of the efforts of many pro-lifers worldwide that expressed their concerns about the article written by Archbishop Fisichella," he said.  "One of the institutions that contributed to the publication of this new document was LifeSite.  

"Only God knows what contributed the most, but it is the joint effort of many persons and there's no doubt that all the publicity that you gave to this sad case contributed to this document."

But the pro-life movement has one Person to thank more than all others for this outcome, suggested Barreiro. "We are grateful to the Lord for this outcome," he said. "You see the seal approval of the Lord when something happens," adding quickly, "sometimes you will only know in heaven."
 

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The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano has today published a clarification from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) reiterating the Church's stand against abortion.  The clarification notes that it comes after the CDF received communications from political and church leaders expressing concerns about an article published in the same newspaper by the new head of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Archbishop Salvatore (Rino) Fisichella.

The clarification is an impressive compilation of most of the strongest statements of the Church in defense of human life.  It runs though teachings from the Bible, the early Church, Councils and Popes, reaffirming constantly that abortion is absolutely prohibited and an "abominable crime."

Previously, both the heads of the Vatican's Pontifical Academy for Life and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) had refused to retract or clarify the assertion by the president of the PAV that doctors who committed an abortion on the twins of a nine year-old rape Brazilian victim were not deserving of excommunication (see below for more coverage on the Brazil case).

The clarification by the CDF, however, goes into the matter at length.  It states that: "The formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church punishes with this crime against human life with the canonical penalty of excommunication."

The clarification comes only days after a blog post by Italian journalist and Vatican expert Sandro Magister reported that over half of the members of the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV) had rejected the position of its president on the controversy surrounding the abortion on the nine year-old Brazilian girl.

27 of the 46 members of the PAV wrote to Archbishop Fisichella, asking him to recant the "wrong" position he took in a March 15th article published in the Vatican's newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. Magister reports that Fisichella responded to the April 4th letter by rejecting the request.

Turning to the higher authority, the PAV member signatories made a formal request for a statement clarifying the Church's teaching regarding abortion to William Cardinal Levada, the head of the CDF, and were ignored.

The letter requesting a clarification was reportedly passed on to the head of the Secretariat of State, Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, "as Fisichella's article had been written at his request."  Magister noted that the same group has also submitted a dossier on the issue to Pope Benedict XVI who is believed to have ordered Bertone to issue a statement reiterating Catholic doctrine on the sanctity of human life.

See the full English text of the L'Osservatore Romano article 

See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:

L'Osservatore Romano Won't Let me Defend Myself Says Brazil Archbishop  

Brazilian Archbishop Who Announced Excommunication of Abortionists Receives International Pro-Life Award    
 
International Pro-Abortion Group Conspired With Hospital to Kill Unborn Twins in Famous Brazilian Case -
Part I   Part II   Part III: 
 

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"Our hearts are torn because of the wanton murder of the young by evil man. Abortion, My children, is murder, the most foulest of deeds, that is punishable by death! And what is worse than death of the soul?
     "I say unto you, as your Mother, that any man or woman who performs or takes part of this abomination of the murder of the unborn shall be given a heavy penance upon earth, or if this penance is not given upon earth, that person found guilty in the eyes of his God shall suffer eternal damnation in the fires of hell." - Our Lady of the Roses, December 28, 1976 

"For that one reason among many, the United States will suffer unless there is placed into your government a group that fears the Lord if they cannot love the Lord. They will fear Him and find measures to stop the slaughter of the unborn." - Our Lady of the Roses, April 14, 1984

The awesome Bayside Prophecies...  https://www.tldm.org/Bayside/default.htm  
These prophecies came from Jesus, Mary, and the saints to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, NY, from 1968 to 1995:

SIN OF OMISSION
"The sin of omission shall condemn many to hell, be they layman or Hierarchy.  I repeat:  not the sin of commission, but the sin of omission will commit many to hell.  Among them there will be also mitres." - Our Lady, October 6, 1980

U.S. SHALL BE FIRST STRUCK
"One of the reasons the Eternal Father chose your city and your state for My appearance was because of abortion, the murder of the holy innocents. Your nation, without repentance, shall be the first struck." - Our Lady, March 15, 1978

THE UNITED STATES SHALL FALL
"How can a great country like the United States fall, you say, My child?  You ask Me in your heart.  I read your heart.  I will tell you why.  Because they have given themselves over to satan.  When a country has lost its morality and seeks the pleasures of the flesh, giving over, themselves over, to all manner of abominations, like homosexuality, and condoning this up the highest courts of the land, then that country shall fall." - Our Lady of the Roses, November 1, 1985

DOCTORS
"Doctors now are profaning their profession, those who have given themselves over to destroying human life in abortions." - Jesus, June 6, 1987

FOULEST OF DEEDS
"Our hearts are torn because of the wanton murder of the young by evil man. Abortion, My children, is murder, the most foulest of deeds, that is punishable by death! And what is worse than death of the soul?
     "I say unto you, as your Mother, that any man or woman who performs or takes part of this abomination of the murder of the unborn shall be given a heavy penance upon earth, or if this penance is not given upon earth, that person found guilty in the eyes of his God shall suffer eternal damnation in the fires of hell." - Our Lady, December 28, 1976 

DESTROYED
"All who become part of or condone abortion, the murder of the young, shall be destroyed!" - Jesus, June 2, 1979

HUMAN LIFE IS SACRED
"The Eternal Father command that you stop these murders at once! You will not destroy the lives of the unborn. Human life is sacred in the eyes of your God. No man has the right to destroy a life. The Father, He sends this life to you, and only He will decide when it will return back to the Kingdom.
     "Do not, My children, be deceived by the words of the evil ones about you who cry to you of no space left for man. There is space, for My Father has a plan for every life He sends." - Our Lady, August 5, 1971

WILL NEVER BE CONDONED
"You will remember, My children and My child, to guard the young. Your clergy have fallen into darkness. Abortion will never be condoned. But We must have others who fervently will go forward and bring out to the minds of those who have actually seduced the country and the children--bring them the knowledge of Heaven, hell and purgatory. Then they will not have free license to sin." - Our Lady, May 28, 1983

GOVERNMENT
"For that one reason among many, the United States will suffer unless there is placed into your government a group that fears the Lord if they cannot love the Lord. They will fear Him and find measures to stop the slaughter of the unborn." - Our Lady, April 14, 1984

NUNS
"That is what makes My heart ache, My child. That is one of the reasons Theresa is crying constantly when she looks into the convents and sees what is going on. Many now believe in abortion, the murders of the children; and many have committed this act upon themselves." - Jesus, October 1, 1988

SIXTY MILLION
"I say this for this reason: the Eternal Father is much disturbed at the numbers of abortions being committed throughout your country and the world. These numbers go upwards to fifty to sixty million in one year throughout the world." - Our Lady, June 18, 1986

TREATED AS GARBAGE
"O My child, My tears fall upon you all when I see all of the innocent little babies being slaughtered . . . cast into garbage pails like nothing but dirt and scum. They are living human beings! And all murderers shall get their just recompense." - Our Lady, March 18, 1983

BOMBS IN THE UNITED STATES
"These interlopers upon the serenity of the United States have dark skins.... With their plans there will be bombs placed in strategic places and many shall die at the hands of these ruffians....
     "One big reason for permitting this disaster in New York would be the abortion mills throughout the city and the country." - Jesus, October 1, 1988

HOLY SPIRIT
"At the time of conception, the Holy Spirit makes the child, and the breath of the Almighty gives it life." - Our Lady, June 18, 1991

LIMBO
"And what, My children, are We going to do with all the aborted babies? O My child, I know you feel as I do, for I can see the great distress on your face. What are We going to do, My child? Do you understand when they come to Us, they must go to Limbo? They are in Heaven, a happy place, but they cannot see God." - Our Lady, October 2, 1987

SORROWFULLY
"Sorrowfully, the penance that is to come upon the world for the murders of the unborn shall be a chastisement far greater in severity than man has ever witnessed in the past nor ever shall pass through again. Your world is plunging into a deep chasm of suffering and destruction." - Our Lady, May 20, 1978

OATH
"Your once loyal to the oath of a doctor, your once loyal doctors are now butchers! For money they kill the young!" - Our Lady, February 10, 1978

WOE TO THE WOMAN
"Know, My child, this simple lesson, that in these days of the latter times, women will seek to cast off their role as mother and a woman. Women will cast it off under the direction of satan, and murder her children. Woe to the woman who does not repent of this vile abomination! She has walked the road to eternal damnation and hell. Repent, O woman, or forever be lost!" - Our Lady, March 18, 1975  

Directives from Heaven... https://www.tldm.org/directives/directives.htm

D23 - Abortion PDF
D129 - Third Secret Explained: Part 1 - 666 in Rome   PDF
D130 - Third Secret Explained: Part 2 - Satan entered the Church in 1972   PDF
D131 - Third Secret Explained: Part 3 - Satan entered the highest realms of the hierarchy   PDF
D132 - Third Secret Explained: Part 4 - There shall be bishop against bishop and cardinal against cardinal, as satan has set himself in their midst.   PDF
D142 - Sin of Omission  PDF
D196 - Life Begins at Conception    PDF
 

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Full text of Cardinal Ratzinger's letter to U.S. bishops, that they must refuse Communion to pro-abort politicians
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Cardinal Ratzinger says that refusing Holy Communion to pro-abortion politicians is a "doctrine of the Church"
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Your names have been written in Heaven… "It is not by accident that you are called by My Mother, for your names have been written in Heaven.... But with this great grace you have great responsibility to send this Message from Heaven throughout the world, for if you are able to recover just one more for Heaven, an additional star shall be placed in your crown." - Jesus, August 5, 1975

A great obligation to go forward... "It is not by accident that you are called by My Mother, for it is by merit and the prayers that have risen to Heaven for your salvation.  For those who have received the grace to hear the Message from Heaven, you have a great obligation to go forward and bring this Message to your brothers and sisters.  Do not expect a rest upon your earth, for you will have eternal rest very soon." - Jesus, June 12, 1976

The sin of omission...  "The sin of omission shall condemn many to hell, be they layman or Hierarchy.  I repeat:  not the sin of commission, but the sin of omission will commit many to hell."  Our Lady of the Roses,  October 6, 1980

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