[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]Headhunter wrote:
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]Headhunter wrote:
Nope. But I have some dear friends, wonderful people, who had a multiple birth due to in-vitro. Finest people on the planet. To then have them called ‘inherently evil’ in what they did…well, the gents who thought that up can kiss off…seriously.
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Does not seem like you share in these people’s “fineness.” Though I would like to see where anyone called these people inherently evil.[/quote]
The bishop did exactly that – calling in-vitro ‘inherently evil’. So what’s that make people who go that route?
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Misguided. Unless they know why it’s inherently evil, and then they are morally culpable. However, it doesn’t sound like this lady knows what the Nicene Creed is, let alone the reasoning behind why IVF is immoral.
I’d hate to go into all what makes something a mortal sin, but one of them is knowledge. Without that, it’s still a terrible thing, but one is not as morally culpable as if they knew the reasoning behind why it is such.
Further, to say that the Church finds the want of children sinful is not-founded. John Paul II expresses in his greatest work, Theology of the Body, that the yearning for children, by human parents, is the shadow of the yearning that God the Father had when he created us to share in his Son’s divine nature.[/quote]
Well, my friends with the in-vitro kids…should they not have gotten them baptised? Should she have them leave the Faith? Maybe the priest who baptised them should report himself for punishment?
I think an exorcism would probably fix this, don’t you?