ARLINGTON, Dec 18, 2000 (LSN.ca) – During a homily delivered December 9, Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde blasted the U.S. government, asking, “How is it that our nation threatens to withhold foreign aid to countries unless they subscribe to an abortion-rights agenda?” The homily, published in Friday’s Catholic Herald, compared the United States to ancient cultures which practiced human sacrifice. “Mexico in 1531 was … one of the most technologically advanced nations in the Western Hemisphere … (where) it is estimated that 50,000 people a year, and one out of every five children born, were sacrificed.
The bishop drew further attention to the moral depravity in America, asking, “How is it that a president continually vetoes legislation banning partial-birth abortion? How is it that a child needs parental permission to be given an aspirin at school but can be given the morning-after pill to abort a newly-conceived child without such consent?”
The bishop echoed the pope in calling for “ardent evangelizing activity” in order to enter a new “world without abortion, a world where every human is treated as a person from conception until natural death, a world where there is right and wrong and right means following the will of the Father.” He said, “Being pro-life is something which should radiate throughout our entire being, whether at home, in the community, or in the work place. Regardless of what any poll indicates, we must publicly promote the Gospel of Life because that is the right thing to do.”
See the full homily in the Herald at: https://www.catholicherald.com/loverde/homily1214.htm