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Abortion is as evil as September 11: former ambassador By Peter Finney Jr. Catholic News Service NEW ORLEANS (CNS) - Former US diplomat Alan Keyes told a pmlife conference in New Orleans he equates the evil of the September 11 terrorist attacks with the evil of abortion. While the attacks manifested "a disregard for the intrinsic worth of innocent human life," he said, they were no different nor more appalling on a moral level than the fact that abortion has destroyed millions of unborn babies since it was legalised virtually on demand in 1973.
Keyes, who was US ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council during the Reagan administration, made the comments in a July 12 keynote speech at the American Life League's annual Celebration of Life World Family Conference in New Orleans. "If we pray down destruction on the head of Osama bin Laden for that violation of innocent life," Keyes said. "we have to be aware that we pray down destruction as well on a nation that is willing to enshrine in principle a right to administer the self-same blow to those innocent lives of our offspring that ought to be more sacred in our obligation to God than any others." He scoffed at the suggestion by some in the media that the terrorist attacks were an example of "new evil." "That evil may have come from Osama bin Laden, but it was not the discovery of new evil," he said. "What we saw on September 11 in the collapsing buildings, in the death toll, in the grief of the families was the awesome consequences that arise when we ignore the intrinsic meaning and worth of innocent human life. Let us not pretend that we made such a discovery on September 11. "What we discovered that day was the real consequence of evil in ourselves," Keyes added. 'The evil doesn't come from without it doesn't fall
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By Pina Ford Come journey.., that was the theme of the Conference for Catechists held recently at the Catholic Education Office that attracted more than 100 catechists from across the Perth Archdiocese. Opening the conference, Archbishop Barry Hickey reminded like raindrops on your head. Evil catechists of the tremendous welLs up from the hearts of human not only of the religious beings." Keyes called the Septem- value, program that they education ber 11 attacks a "lightning bolt" children, but also of their teach to "In the face of the destruction of September 11, all relativism was very presence with them. As a young priest going into govthrown to the wind, and we understood in the light of tragedy (the) ernment schools, he said he was truth that there is a clear line ... sometimes diffident about the between right and wrong." he said. impact of his work It was only in the ensuing years Keyes said the pm-life cause is not at right, and keynote speaker Monthat he witnessed the fruits of his Conference characters Helen, left, Sandra, "special interanother simply just Photo Phi Bayne. CEO ica Brown. est" "People ask me. 'Why do you efforts when he was asked to precare so much about that mass of tis- side in the marriages of his for- We Proclaim, was continued in exploring the Emmaus story. She sue in the womb? What's with that mer pupils or baptise their the address by keynote speaker, presented Jesus' ministry to his followers on the road to Emmaus Monica Brown. emotional obsession you have with children. A religious educator, composer and their response to him as a fetuses?'" Keyes said. The theme of personal witness "A decent conscience must feel or, as the title of her book and singer of international repute, model for the Christian journey. Continued - Page 2 the terrible loss of that word of glory describes it, Embodying the God Monica developed her theme by spoken in the womb, must wonder every day what truth we have missed, what mercy we have forgone when we have suppressed out of our world all those millions of thoughts in the mind of God, thoughts intended for us. I do care about that," he said. Moral relativism also makes it easier to understand the current financial scandals that have damaged the US stock market and the sexual scandals in the church, according to Keyes. "People are lamenting the lack of business ethics, but in the context of business life we've been told it's all relative," he said. "What you do for the sake of your stockholders excuses you from the requirements of decency and morality and conscience. What generation of business leaders who were taught to believe that they could do anything for their corporation wouldn't at the end of the day conclude that they were right to do anything for themPhoto Sr Flo 0 Stillivw selves?" Elizabeth O'Doherly, Sr Anna Maria O'Shea, Sr M Referring to sexual sins, Keyes The sparkle was certainly in the eyes of 14 nuns said: "We've got a lot of folks wan- from the Sisters of Mercy congregation, who cele- Beatrice Roche, Sr M Justina Tally and Sr M Zita dering around this world who think brated their Diamond Jubilee at Santa Maria ColWeston, are 15 of the original 22 sisters who they can fornicate on Saturday and lege chapel on Sunday 14th July. were professed in to the order 60 years ago in praise the Lord on Sunday and that 1942. Only 14 were present on Sunday. nuns, Sr M Regina Blake, Sr M Fintan ConnolThe somewhere in that scheme, you will A Mass celebrated by Monsignor John O'Shea and still be walking the walk," he said. ly, Sr M Senan Curtin, Sr M Norbert Greally, Sr M Griffin, Sr M Virgilius Henchy, Sr ElizaFr John Harte was held in honour of the sisters, Mercedes "There is a standard of truth, and we Hanlon, Sr M Maria Coale! Henry, Sr Johanby afternoon tea. followed beth the depart from that standard at - Stephen Spiteri na Keane, Sr M Christopher McKenna, Sr M peril of our salvation."
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