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Contradicts Church on Abortion, Embryo Research, Condoms, IVF

By John-Henry Westen VATICAN, May 1, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Although mostly below the surface, there has been much activity from the Vatican in combating the negative effects of Cardinal Carlo Martini’s break with the Catholic Church on bioethical matters. (coverage: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/apr/06042108.html) The controversial remarks, published in the Italian weekly L’Espresso, were, according to EWTN’s Vatican Bureau Chief Joan Lewis, the cause of a “high level meeting” on how to deal with the matter. The results of that meeting, says Lewis, “may never be known for no statement or declaration was issued, no article appeared in the Vatican newspaper, nor was […]

Cardinal Martini Also Would not Condemn 'Altruistic' Euthanasia

by John-Henry Westen and Hilary White WASHINGTON, April 25, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The uproar caused last week as a highly placed Vatican Cardinal announced the Pope had asked for a study on the use of condoms and AIDS prevention, on the heels of statements in support of condoms in the context of AIDS by another notable Cardinal, has put a smile on the faces of anti-Catholic groups. The notorious ‘Catholics for a Free Choice’, who have been condemned as an anti-Catholic, pro-abortion group, responded to the news saying, “As we mark the one year anniversary of Benedict XVI’s papacy, the […]

Nota: Este artículo ha sido traducido automáticamente al español. By Peter J. Smith   ROME, January 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The retired Archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, has struck another subversive blow to the clearly defined teachings of the Catholic Church on life, reports Vatican expert Sandro Magister in the Italian journal Chiesa, who says “the real clash is between Martini and the Pope.”   Just nine months previously, Martini, a high profile leader in the Catholic Church, exposed his public dissent from the Church’s life teachings on artificial insemination, embryos, abortion, and euthanasia published in the Italian […]

By Gudrun Schultz VATICAN CITY, May 5, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, said the Catholic Church would not change its position on the use of condoms to prevent the spread of AIDS, reported the Catholic News Agency this morning. In an interview with Columbia’s Radio Cadena Nacional, Cardinal Trujillo said the Vatican “maintains unmodified the teaching on condoms” and said Pope Benedict XVI has not called for any studies on altering the prohibition against condom use. “As a dicastery we do not have any instruction or any indication to the […]