WHAT HAPPENS TO THE SOULS OF ALL THESE ABORTED BABIES?

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What flummoxes me is, how can the Catholic Church in New Zealand and Australia bang on endlessly about 'social justice' when the plight of God's "little ones" is largely ignored?

For instance, I receive a Carmelite JPIC newsletter from Australia. The September issue, typically, mentions 'justice' four times, and 'human rights' once. Not 'justice' or 'human rights' for the unborn - but it does feature a lovely prayer "grieving for loss of precious life in the Amazon". 

The 'precious life' that JPIC grieves for is apparently, not unborn children, but trees.

And take The Common Good, the Christchurch Catholic Workers' paper, a creature I gather, largely of Father Jim Consedine - although like Cardinal 'call me John' Dew, he prefers to be just plain 'Jim'. 

The spring issue of The Common Good poetically describes the 'Works of Mercy' which ironically concludes, 'Bury the dead'. 

But we can't bury aborted babies. Nurse just drops them in a bin.

The Common Good juxtaposes the 'Works of War'. Equally ironically, it concludes with 'Kill the Living' - but not by killing them in their mother's womb. 

The Common Good laments NZ's record of "some of the highest reported rates of family violence in the developed world. Experts (where would we be without 'experts'?) say a warped sense of masculinity is partly to blame". 

It's violence towards their own unborn children which is mostly to blame. 

In 11 pages, with New Zealand facing the devastating probability of the Labour-Coalition Government's evil Abortion Legislation Bill being passed, no referendum needed, The Common Good makes no mention of NZ's slaughter of the unborn - which with sex-selective abortions allowed, will rapidly become Daughter Slaughter. 

And as you'd expect, The Catholic Worker takes a poke at "the lies of Donald Trump". The Catholic Worker thinks CNN is a "trustworthy news organization", and trumpets that Trump, "the President of the US, is saying 12 untrue things a day".

Yes, Trump says silly things sometimes, and gets his facts wrong. (Aren't we all fortunate that CNN doesn't broadcast the silly things we sometimes say?) But Trump does not deliberately set out to prevaricate, to avoid the truth, as the Catholic Church in New Zealand seems to do.

Prevarication is the thief of truth. And the truth is that justice demands a total gift of one's self to God and to others, meaning primarily their souls. 

Just what happens to the souls of aborted children?  Pope John Paul II in Evangelium Vitae, gave us a glimpse when compassionately addressing women who'd had abortions, he wrote, “…. Aborted children, like the Holy Innocents who were canonized as martyrs, have a natural yearning for God which explains why they "live in the Lord". Personally, I believe we can pray for their baptism by desire. 

"Justice," says St Thomas Aquinas, "is the perpetual constant will to give to everyone what is due to him". And what everyone is due, first and foremost, is the very life which is God's to give, and only God's to take away. 


More than that, the "love" our clergy constantly exhort us to have for one another  - without ever defining it correctly as love propter Deum, meaning loving one another because we love God first - must be based on justice. 

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after justice (Mt 5, 6). Without justice, there can be no love in the sense that God demands it. Without justice we cannot please God.

It follows that to do justice for the unborn means we must materially support a pro-life organization, and/or 'voice' our conscientious objection to abortion by standing outside an abortion facility. You mightn't be allowed to do that for much longer. 

Yesterday our Voice for Life Annual General Meeting, featuring Lawrence Yule, National MP for Tuki Tuki, was blessed with a prayer by a Presbyterian minister. And Lawrence had been thanked ahead of the meeting, with two tickets to the sensational pro-life meeting Unplanned, donated by our treasurer's pastor at the Riverbend Bible Church in Havelock North.

I'd invited the St Andrew's minister to do us the honour only the day before the meeting, after first asking our parish priest. Father told me that the time of day - 12.30 p m - didn't "fit".

It's my fault I know, for not thinking to ask Father earlier, but our meeting had been advertised in the parish newsletter and I know Father knew that, because when I asked him to say a few words about it at the end of Mass last Sunday, and urge parishioners also to make submissions on this truly horrific Abortion Legislation Bill, he said, "it's all in the newsletter". And indeed it was.

But you know what Catholics are. Some will say it's because we've put priests on a pedestal, but we do what they tell us (and one reason why Mass attendances have plummeted since Vatican II is that priests no longer tell us to turn up). We follow, like sheep, only where they lead us and that's the model Jesus left us - He told us we are His sheep and like Christ, priests are supposed to be our shepherds. Shepherds like Cardinal George Pell, who has said: “Abortion corrupts everything it touches—law, medicine, and the whole concept of human rights.” 

No wonder Cardinal Pell is in prison. No wonder his own Church, the Catholic Church, is not seen to be praying for him. 

Back to the Voice for Life meeting yesterday: I being the only R C on the committee, and Lawrence Yule and his secretary being good Protestants, and the Seventh Day Adventists putting in a good appearance, local Catholics were hugely outnumbered. (I'm not counting a good contingent of Catholics who'd come from much further afield).

While it's hard to take notes while watching the audience for hands up to speak, I think I can report that Yule has changed his mind on euthanasia. Because it's not now possible for the final sign-off to go to the District Court, at the third reading, he will oppose the End of Life Choice Bill. But he thinks it will go to a referendum, and that it will probably pass into law.

He told us that the Abortion Legislation Bill will probably not go to a referendum, because it will go into law without one. He said deluging MPs with emails is not a good idea; what will convince MPs is personal interaction. Some people were heard to say they'd be putting old-fashioned pen to paper. And get it couriered, I said.

Some people were surprised to hear of his opposition - partial opposition - to the Abortion Legislation Bill. He told us he's a Christian, "a pragmatic Christian." I badly wanted to say there's no such thing, but such a comment would not have been becoming to the Chair.

Meanwhile, on the footpath outside Hastings Hospital this morning a Voice for Life leader was close to tears. I don't know, but I'm guessing the young woman she'd persuaded to cancel her abortion appointment last Thursday had returned there today. This in spite of two Voice for Life families offering a home for her and her baby. Both those families are Protestant.

When you're desperate enough, and killing your own child is offered as a viable choice by your peers, it's hard not to accept it.

St Catherine of Siena goes a long way towards explaining the hideous mess New Zealand finds itself in now.

"O justice, if thy light failest, we are immediately plunged into confusion and surrounded by the darkness of injustice."

Bob Gill says:

Yes, most men are swayed by women saying it's a woman's body. They need to know the likes of the birth of a child begins at conception. I wish the Church would hit these issues harder - very low key on these matters

It would really help if the Church commented more on these issues, especially at Sunday Mass, but priests are virtually silent. More open discussion by the Church would surely make people think and be more proactive to the cause of acting on behalf of the unborn.

I say:


Yes, priests are virtually silent, and that more than any other single factor I believe, is the cause of this horrendous legislation. If only they had preached courageously and faithfully in support of Pope Paul VI on contraception, for a start.


Leo says:

Julia, despite your exposed disingenuousness, I’ve continued to watch your blog.




Bob Gill is clearly awaiting a graphic such as this, so that he can put it on banners and get t-shirts printed.