In his
encyclical Laudato Si Pope Francis
quotes the NZ Catholic bishops (The Pope’s New Zealand connection, Jan
2), who’d asked what ‘thou shalt not kill’ could mean for the 20 per cent of
the world’s population who consume resources in a way that ‘robs poor nations
and future generations of what they need to survive’.
Good
question. Certainly it’s not as vexed as the question that needed asking first,
which concerns direct contravention of this Christian commandment by abortion. We
are not only figuratively but literally, by the use of fetal body parts in the
food industry, consuming our future generations. There can be no social justice
in a world which legally kills its own young.
Surely
NZ’s Catholic bishops should be hollering this Gospel truth from the rooftops.
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