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BY LifeSiteNews.com By Tim WaggonerMONTREAL, April 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Over the Easter weekend, Le Devoir newspaper published a story based on an interview with Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte of Montreal, during which the Cardinal contradicted the teachings of Catholic Church on abortion and condoms. In the interview Cardinal Turcotte, as quoted by Le Devoir, compared abortion to killing in self-defense, effectively equating the unborn child with a violent aggressor. "Personally, I am against murder," he said, "but can understand that sometimes, when someone is being attacked, they need to kill someone in self-defense. I am against abortion, but I can understand that in certain cases, there is almost no other choice than to practice it." Turcotte made the comments in the context of addressing the announcement of the excommunication of those involved in the abortion of the twins of a nine-year-old Brazilian girl.  He called the move by Brazilian Archbishop Cardoso of Recife, who had announced the excommunication, a "clumsy move."Turcotte had also criticized the excommunications earlier, in a statement released in March, in which he said that the situation in Brazil called for a more "evangelical" approach.Turcotte had said he was "pleased" to learn that the bishops’ conference of Brazil had distanced themselves from their fellow in Recife.During the recent interview, Turcotte also addressed the controversy over Pope Benedict’s remark against condoms during his recent trip to Africa.  According to Cardinal Turcotte, it would be "ridiculous" to suggest that the Pope said condoms should not be used."Essentially, the pope said that it took two things to fight this disease, the means, but also a change of mentality. He pronounced this sentence to show that condoms were not in and of themselves the perfect solution; we took his words out of context and all this was largely amplified," said Cardinal Turcotte. "As if the pope had said that condoms should not be used. This is ridiculous! When someone has AIDS, it is his or her responsibility to protect the people with whom he or she has intercourse."To express concern contact:Congregation for the BishopsGiovanni Battista Re, Cardinal, PrefectFrancesco Monterisi, SecretaryPalazzo della Congregazioni,00193 Roma,Piazza Pio XII, 10Phone: 06.69.88.42.17Fax: 06.69.88.53.03His Eminence Jean-Claude TurcotteArchbishop of Montréalseccard@diocesemontreal.org514-925-4300 See full article here:http://www.ledevoir.com/2009/04/11/245045.html http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/montreal-cardinal-i-am-against-abortion-but-i-can-understand-that-in-certai/

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