PHILADELPHIA,
October 24, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Amidst confusion about the Church’s
teaching on how to engage issues like abortion, contraception, and same-sex
“marriage” following recent interviews by Pope Francis, Philadelphia’s
Archbishop has stressed that “nothing has changed” and the right to life
remains the “foundational” issue facing the culture.
The
right to life “is not merely one among many urgent issues, but rather the
foundational one. It provides the cornerstone for a whole architecture of human
dignity,” Archbishop Charles Chaput wrote in a column for Catholic Philly, the
archdiocesan newspaper, on October 18.
“Nothing
has changed in recent months or years in Catholic thinking about the sanctity
of human life. Nor can it,” he added.
Archbishop
Chaput framed his column as a reflection on the USCCB’s 1998 pastoral letter
Living the Gospel of Life, which he called “the best document ever issued by
the U.S. bishops on the priorities of Catholic engagement in our nation’s
public life.” The bishops’ purpose, he says, was to apply Pope John Paul II’s
1995 encyclical Evangelium Vitae to the U.S. context.
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