PHILADELPHIA (LifeSiteNews) – In a LifeSiteNews exclusive interview, a former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) said that those who promote abortion apply the same “eugenic and racist” logic used to justify the murderous Nazi regime.
German theologian Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, who led the CDF from 2012 until 2017 when Pope Francis replaced him with Jesuit Cardinal Luis F. Ladaria, affirmed to LifeSiteNews correspondent Jim Hale that “it is not a human right to kill another person.”
The cardinal noted that since a unique baby is formed at “the first moment of conception,” as is consistent with established science, abortion is the deliberate killing of a human being and therefore “murder.”
Although it is a “natural right” for man and wife to come together to become parents, Müller stressed that “the mother is not the owner of the life” and that the parents instead have a duty to care for their child.
Moreover, “every human being is an independent reality [ordained] towards God,” the former CDF head stated, leading him to accuse those who would seek to permit abortion of a “fascistic, totalitarian attitude to demand for himself the right to kill another [person].”
Continuing, the cardinal highlighted that “those totalitarian societies [and political] parties who reclaimed for themselves the right to kill other persons [justify] themselves [by] saying the embryo is not a full human being.”
“But with this logic they justified also slavery in the United States [by] saying black people from Africa are not full and real human beings.” This logic “goes absolutely against human reason, absolutely against all form of conscience, but they quiet their consciences by declaring these people … not in the full sense human beings,” Müller said.
Müller noted that this logic has been employed throughout history, notably among the Nazis.
“The Nazis said, ‘We are not killing persons, we are not killing humans,’” the cardinal explained, adding that the Nazis instead claimed that “people of inferior races are not full human beings.” For example, “they said the German race is superior to the Slavic and other races,” to justify their heinous tortures and murders.
However, “racism is not only characteristic of the Nazis because Nazis took over these eugenic and racist ideas which existed before,” Müller added.
Accordingly, the former doctrinal chief insisted that “it is absolutely against our Christian tradition, the Jewish tradition of the OT and of the NT, and the beginning of Greco-Roman philosophy” to advocate for abortion. Our ancient forebears, he said, “developed this idea of basic natural human rights and everybody is equal and every one of us [belongs] immediately to God.”
UPDATE 10/29/2021:
Joe Biden claims Pope Francis said he should continue receiving Holy Communion, despite the president's radical, anti-Catholic support for abortion. Biden asserted that the pontiff “was happy I’m a good Catholic,” and that the president should “keep receiving Communion.”
Please SIGN this urgent petition to Pope Francis urging him to clarify what he told Biden at his private audience in Rome. Biden should be facing formal excommunication because of his public and obstinate promotion of abortion, but instead we have the perverse situation in which he claims to have the blessing of the pope to sacrilegiously receive Our Lord in the Holy Eucharist. Pope Francis must clarify what exactly was said in order to avoid scandal and being complicit in such grave sin. If Joe Biden wishes to return to communion with the Church he must immediately and publicly stop and repent from his active support of the culture of death.
To ensure that this petition reaches Pope Francis, it will also be CC'ed to the Papal Nuncio of the United States, Archbishop Christophe Pierre, as well as to the Chairman of the Pro-Life Committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop Joseph Naumann.
Indeed, Joe Biden recently proposed a budget which would eliminate the Hyde Amendment, potentially allowing billions of taxpayer dollars to go to the funding of abortion domestically.
So, it is now an indisputable fact that Joe Biden, himself, is forcing abortion on the American public as well as around the world (e.g., Biden's executive order abolishing the Mexico City Policy).
However, since we know that the Church prioritizes abortion as the "pre-eminent" moral issue, and also how the pope has recently reiterated the teaching that abortion is "homicide," we ask the Pope to ensure that Biden's scandalous claim be clarified and his support for abortion be condemned.
This is the prime opportunity for the pope to make it crystal clear to Biden: Promoting abortion is absolutely and utterly incompatible with being in communion with the Church, and that those politicians who publicly and obstinately support abortion effectively put themselves outside communion with the Church, but also merit formal excommunication.
Joe Biden's active and concentrated promotion of abortion since he took office only 9 months ago is a grave scandal to the faithful of the United States, and to Catholics everywhere.
But, perhaps even more scandalous is the USCCB's decision not to directly and publicly address how Biden's radical, public promotion of abortion affects his standing in the Church.
The silence from our American shepherds is deafening.
Therefore, Pope Francis must now intervene to protect both the Holy Eucharist and our preborn brothers and sisters from death, to protect authentic Church teaching from deceitful "Catholics" like Joe Biden, and to protect the faithful from the grievous scandal caused by Biden's claims, action and the intolerable dithering and "dialoging" engaged in by the USCCB.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
'Biden will meet with Pope Francis to discuss ‘human dignity,’ but abortion left off agenda'
'Biden restores foreign aid to abortion by repealing Mexico City Policy'
'Removing the Hyde Amendment in Biden’s proposed budget will set a precedent'
ORIGINAL PETITION:
Joe Biden is scheduled to meet Pope Francis in Rome in a rapidly approaching audience on October 29th.
Please SIGN this urgent petition to Pope Francis urging him to tell Biden that he will face formal excommunication because of his public and obstinate promotion of abortion, and that if he wishes to return to communion with the Church he must immediately and publicly stop and repent from his active support of the culture of death.
To ensure that this petition reaches Pope Francis, it will also be CC'ed to the Papal Nuncio of the United States, Archbishop Christophe Pierre, as well as to the Chairman of the Pro-Life Committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop Joseph Naumann.
Indeed, Joe Biden recently proposed a budget which would eliminate the Hyde Amendment, potentially allowing billions of taxpayer dollars to go to the funding of abortion domestically.
So, it is now an indisputable fact that Joe Biden, himself, is forcing abortion on the American public as well as around the world (e.g., Biden's executive order abolishing the Mexico City Policy).
But, reports suggest that the pope and Biden are only supposed to speak about COVID and climate change...
However, since we know that the Church prioritizes abortion as the "pre-eminent" moral issue, and also how the pope has recently reiterated the teaching that abortion is "homicide," we ask the Pope to ensure that Biden's scandalous support of abortion become the central focus of their meeting.
This is the prime opportunity for the pope to make it crystal clear to Biden: Promoting abortion is absolutely and utterly incompatible with being in communion with the Church, and that those politicians who publicly and obstinately support abortion effectively put themselves outside communion with the Church, but also merit formal excommunication.
Joe Biden's active and concentrated promotion of abortion since he took office only 9 months ago is a grave scandal to the faithful of the United States, and to Catholics everywhere.
But, perhaps even more scandalous is the USCCB's decision not to directly and publicly address how Biden's radical, public promotion of abortion affects his standing in the Church.
The silence from our American shepherds is deafening.
Therefore, Pope Francis must now intervene to protect our preborn brothers and sisters from death, to protect authentic Church teaching from deceitful "Catholics" like Joe Biden, and to protect the faithful from the grievous scandal caused by Biden's action and the intolerable dithering and "dialoging" engaged in by the USCCB.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
'Biden will meet with Pope Francis to discuss ‘human dignity,’ but abortion left off agenda' - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/biden-will-meet-with-pope-francis-to-discuss-human-dignity-abortion-left-off-agenda/
'Biden restores foreign aid to abortion by repealing Mexico City Policy' - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/biden-restores-foreign-aid-to-abortion-with-repeal-of-mexico-city-policy/
'Removing the Hyde Amendment in Biden’s proposed budget will set a precedent' - https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/removing-the-hyde-amendment-in-bidens-proposed-budget-will-set-a-precedent/
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The Catholic Church holds that abortion “is gravely contrary to the moral law” and “constitutes a grave offense.” “The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life,” according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
“Babies, old people, sick people; it doesn’t depend on circumstances. Everybody is a person in immediate relation to God. That we have to respect,” Müller stated.
“It is a totalitarian politick to say we have a right to decide who is worthy to live or not to live.”
In like manner, Müller took aim at the global power grabs taking place during the coronavirus crisis, characterizing them as a “form of a new totalitarianism” and cautioning world leaders against becoming like the dictatorships of Soviet Russia and modern-day China.
Although he admitted precautions must be taken regarding the novel coronavirus, Müller said that “this does not justify all that the governments and the mass media are doing.”
That the harsh, restrictive measures imposed by global governments are purely geared toward public health and assisting the weak, “millions of people have doubt,” including himself, Müller said. “There are also political and economic interests without [an] ethical basis,” the cardinal charged.
Though Müller did not speak to what those interests look like, he noted that “the President of the United States is not an absolute king,” and thus he must not seek to impose a specific way of life or thinking upon American citizens.
“He’s only the first citizen. That is the idea of a true democracy,” the cardinal said.
The United States is not based on the “democracy” of the Soviet Union “or of the communistic China,” Müller added. Instead, “for us, in the western world, it is our tradition that the president, the leaders are only the first citizens … they cannot take [on] the behavior of a dictator.”
World leaders “are not the owners of our consciences,” Müller noted, insisting that they “must be very careful not to take over all the methods of absolute power which we have seen in Hitler’s Germany, Stalinist Russia, and in Xi Jinping’s China.”