Politics
Tuesday March 18, 2003
CANADIAN PRIEST DEMANDS EXCOMMUNICATION FOR HIS PRO-ABORTION VIEWS
TODAY'S HEADLINES
E-MAIL
PRINT
VALLEYFIELD, Quebec, March 18, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Claude Fluet, a Catholic priest in the diocese of Valleyfield wrote a letter to the editor published in Le Devoir March 14 in which he says he would rather be excommunicated than give up his convictions about allowing abortion in certain cases. The letter entitled "Perhaps I too should be excommunicated," took issue with the Catholic Church in Nicaragua which told the parents of a nine year old girl that by advocating abortion for their daughter they incurred ipso facto excommunication.
The case in Nicaragua has caused much commotion since feminists are typically using this hard case to push the country to legalize abortion. A nine year old girl, known as Rosa, was raped and conceived a child. Doctors said that her health was equally at risk from an abortion as it would be to continue with the pregnancy. Despite the fact that Nicaraguan law prohibited abortion in those circumstances the baby was aborted. The local Bishop and the head of the Nicaraguan bishops conference had attempted to save the life of the child while offering aid to the young mother and her baby.
However, Rev. Fluet falsely painted the situation as one of selecting which life to save, that of the unborn baby or the nine-year-old girl. He said that destruction of the unborn child was the correct recourse for the girl and that he was "shocked" that "the most recalcitrant sectors of the Catholic Church aimed at obstructing the abortion."
Rev. Fluet concludes his letter saying, "If I am truly wrong, I would prefer excommunication rather than renounce my convictions."
To contact the Bishop of Valleyfield:
Most Rev. Luc Cyr
Bishop of Valleyfield
Email:
Back to TopLatest Headlines
- Cardinal Rigali: You Can't Claim to be "Reducing Abortions" but Publicly Funding them in D.C.
- General Electric to Use Embryonic Stem Cells for Testing, Phase out Lab Rats
- Ohio Supreme Court Allows Planned Parenthood to Conceal Abortion Records in Sexual Abuse Case
- LifeSiteNews Canada Day and Independence Day Message. Taking a few days off. LSN returns Monday July 6
- Heroically Pro-Life Brazilian Archbishop's Resignation Accepted Under Cloud of Vatican Newspaper Misrepresentation
- Pro-Life Groups Announce New Colorado Personhood Initiative
- Judge Puts Kibosh on DC Gay "Marriage" Referendum
- Al Franken Win Hands Supermajority to Senate Democrats
- Group Funded by Canadian Bishops' D&P Joins with Others to Denounce the "Natural Family" and "Family Rights"
- Financially Troubled Planned Parenthood of El Paso Closes Doors
- Abortion Linked to Subsequent Pre-Term Births, New Research Again Confirms
- New Orleans Homosexual Couple Ask Fed. Court to Overturn Marriage Amendment
- Slim Hope Of New Ontario Progressive Conservative Party Leader Promoting Pro-Life, Pro-Family Issues
- Pope Accepts Resignation of Bishop Caught Involved in Homosexual Encounters
- Young Children Removed from UK Schools for "Inappropriate Sexual Behaviour"
- Northern Ireland Politician Cleared of Wrongdoing after Reiterating Christian Teaching on Homosexual Acts
- UK Conservative Leader Speaks at Gay Pride Fundraiser
- More Letters to the Editor on Canadian Catholic Development and Peace Scandal (July 1)
- Letters to the Editor - Readers Respond to Development and Peace Scandal
- Watch This Dramatic New Video on Catholic Bishops Conference Funding of Pro-Abortion Groups
Most Read this Week
- Homosexual Duke U. Director Charged with Offering Adopted 5-Year-Old for Sex
- Famed Fr. Corapi Calls Canadian Bishops' Dissent from Humanae Vitae "Catastrophic"
- Pope: It is a Childish Faith to Oppose the Church Teaching on Life and Family
- Heroically Pro-Life Brazilian Archbishop's Resignation Accepted Under Cloud of Vatican Newspaper Misrepresentation
- General Electric to Use Embryonic Stem Cells for Testing, Phase Out Lab Rats
- LifeSiteNews Detailed Response to Canadian Bishops' Whitewash Report on Development and Peace
- Young Children Removed from UK Schools for "Inappropriate Sexual Behaviour"
- Is Pro-Choice the New Pro-Life?
- Swedish Parents Won't Tell if Child is Boy or Girl as Gender Experiment
- Cardinal Rigali: You Can't Claim to be "Reducing Abortions" but Publicly Funding them in D.C.
MORE NEWS: 
LifeSiteNews.com Home Page Last 10 Days Archives Special Reports
Copyright © LifeSiteNews.com. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives License. You may republish this article or portions of it without request provided the content is not altered and it is clearly attributed to "LifeSiteNews.com". Any website publishing of complete or large portions of original LifeSiteNews articles MUST additionally include a live link to www.LifeSiteNews.com. The link is not required for excerpts. Republishing of articles on LifeSiteNews.com from other sources as noted is subject to the conditions of those sources.