They provide evidence for the idea that life starts at conception with biblical quotes like "the days ordained to me were written in your book before one even came to be" and "your eyes saw my unformed body" suggesting that our personhood in God's view starts at as soon as the egg is fertilised. With that in mind, one of the ten commandments: "thou shalt not kill" would apply strongly to foetuses, and this is why many Catholics believe abortion is wrong under all circumstances. As for the societal implication, Christians could argue that allowing abortion could lead to a lesser respect for human life in general, which is disrespectful to God who gave us the divine gift of life. From the perspective of Joseph Fletcher's situation ethics, abortion can be seen as unacceptable in many cases where the amount of agape love is not maximised. This could mean in cases where the mother could look after the child comfortably with love and care but chooses not to out of selfishness instead (one of the four functioning principles: pragmatism, would need to be applied to decide).
This is true because god always brings good out of evil, there is no pleasure from removal of pain if is person is dead. The catechism says that abortion and euthanasia is wrong. (c.c.2277) whatever its motives and means, direct euthanasia consists in putting an end to the lives of handicapped, sick, or dying persons. It is morally unacceptable. These ideas of removal of life are wrong for it only kills and it prevents the growth of life.
‘The Catholic Church is driven by an understanding that each and every person is a child of God with a dignity that nothing can erase’. This statement was taken from the address of the paper ‘Confronting the Death Penalty’. This statement reasons that everyone is a child of God and no matter how bad someone may be, they will always have some good in them this good is the ‘dignity’ of a human person. Furthermore, Jesus changed the law from eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth to if someone slaps you turn the other cheek. This is stating that Catholic’s must show mercy and compassion the way which Jesus showed use mercy when he died at the cross for our
Regarding the issue of abortion, The Roman Catholic Church opposes all forms of abortion procedures whose direct purpose is to destroy a foetus, since it holds that “Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person — among which are the inviolable right of every innocent being to life.”(Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 2270) It admits certain acts which indirectly result in the death of the foetus, as when the direct purpose is removal of a cancerous womb. In addition to saying that abortion is immoral, the Catholic Church also makes statements and takes actions in opposition to it being legal. [2][3] In lots of catholic churches the opinion varies from practicing Catholics who are usually pro-life and the non-practicing Catholics who choose pro-choice. Catholics teachings say that willingly, knowingly and deliberately committing evil is never justifiable - Even if the intent is good, with this moral being absolute and cannot be changed.
Roman Catholicism teaches that ending a human being’s life in any circumstance is wrong because it goes against the sanctity of life which means that only God can take away life. For this reason, Roman Catholics would condemn abortion. Roman Catholics believe that conception is the point at which personhood begins which means that having an abortion at any stage is essentially committing murder and goes against the commandment “Do not kill” which means that abortion is intrinsically evil so there are no exceptions that would make it right. Pope John Paull II supported this idea, saying that “the human being is a person from the moment of conception”. They would therefore promote the idea that as a foetus is a person from conception, it therefore has a right to live just like every person and this right is more important than the mother’s right to decide what happens to her body.
This doctrine was rejected by orthodox Christians. Arianism is the belief that Jesus is superior to the rest of creation but is less divine than God, this making Jesus not actually God. The death and resurrection of Jesus has key beliefs within it. These include that Jesus died for our sins, the reflections on the death of Jesus, the belief of the resurrection is a fundamental tenet of Christianity and the nature of risen Jesus. The belief that Jesus died on the cross for our sins was initiated as Jesus promoted he was sent to Earth by God to save humankind.
In the sacrament of Reconciliation, we resolve to turn away from sin and return to God's grace. Jesus instituted the Sacrament of Penance as a call to us for conversion—a continuing conversion that occurs after Baptism. Jesus became human so that he could offer the perfect sacrifice to God that would atone, or make up, for our sins once and for all. Followers of Jesus are called to continual, heartfelt conversion throughout life. The most important act of the penitent is contrition.
God created man and woman in the image of Himself, without sin and healthy in spirit, soul and body. “Death and its associated degeneration of the body entered the world as a result of sin” (Genesis 3). Later on in the book of Genesis, God reveals the first promise of healing in both the physical and spiritual sense. In Genesis 3:15, God said that the “seed of the woman would bruise the head of Satan.” This statement demonstrated a promise made by God about Jesus and how he would defeat Satan through his ministry, death, and
He also compares the church to a mother in the sense that we try to cover up our mothers faults. When the church makes a mistake Catholics try and compensate for the mistake. The church was also acting like a parent when the sex scandal occurred by shielding its members from it. Pope Francis provided legitimate reasoning in his comparison of the church and mother, but there are also reasoning for why this comparison is not sufficient. Responder ATF45 comments on this report of the church as a mother.
The priests are there so that God can intercede through the priests. As our lives move forward, we sin against God, ourselves, and our neighbors. Reconciliation can keeps us on the straight path to God and help us to control ourselves so that we don’t harm one another. Since Christ has given us this sacred sacrament, we should trust that this is what He wanted for us. There is proof in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, in Sacred Scripture, and in the Introduction to Catholicism that we as Catholics are entitled to go to confession in the way that Jesus’ taught us to.