{"id":2717,"date":"2013-04-27T16:40:42","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T21:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kathrynlopez\/?p=2717"},"modified":"2013-04-28T10:02:39","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T15:02:39","slug":"need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kathrynlopez\/2013\/04\/need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput on the Kermit Gosnell case<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The brutality in abortion is intimate, personal and permanent. It violates women, and it kills a developing human life every time \u2014 whether the venue is a \u201cWomen\u2019s Medical Center\u201d-style meat factory or a soothing suburban clinic. What makes the Gosnell story unique is that it should distress anyone with its details, pro-choice or pro-life, regardless of religion or politics.<\/p>\n

But of course, people need to know about an evil before they can do anything about it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Timothy Cardinal Dolan in New York writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Church loves, welcomes, and respects a woman who has had an abortion, and the man who fathered the child and encouraged the abortion . . . but would be united with them in mourning and regretting that deadly choice;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mercy<\/a>. <\/p>\n

This comes from Saturday\u2019s Office of Readings, about the history of mercy:<\/p>\n

Though many, we are one body, and members one of another, united by Christ in the bonds of love.Christ has made Jews and Gentiles one by breaking down the barrier that divided us and abolishing the law with its precepts and decrees. This is why we should all be of one mind and if one member suffers some misfortune, all should suffer with him; if one member is honored, all should be glad.<\/p>\n

Paul says: Accept one another as Christ accepted you, for the glory of God. Now accepting one another means being willing to share one another\u2019s thoughts and feelings, bearing one another\u2019s burdens, and preserving the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. This is how God accepted us in Christ, for John\u2019s testimony is true and he said that God the Father loved the world so much that he gave his own Son for us. God\u2019s Son was given as a ransom for the lives of us all. He has delivered us from death, redeemed us from death and from sin.<\/p>\n

Paul throws light on the purpose of God\u2019s plan when he says that Christ became the servant of the circumcised to show God\u2019s fidelity. God had promised the Jewish patriarchs that he would bless their offspring and make it as numerous as the stars of heaven. This is why the divine Word himself, who as God holds all creation in being and is the source of its well-being, appeared in the flesh and became man. He came into this world in human flesh not to be served, but, as he himself said, to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.<\/p>\n

Christ declared that his coming in visible form was to fulfill the promise made to Israel. I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, he said. Paul was perfectly correct, then, in saying that Christ became a servant of the circumcised in order to fulfill the promise made to the patriarchs and that God the Father had charged him with this task, as also with the task of bringing salvation to the Gentiles, so that they too might praise their Savior and Redeemer as the Creator of the universe. In this way God\u2019s mercy has been extended to all men, including the Gentiles, and it can be seen that the mystery of the divine wisdom contained in Christ has not failed in its benevolent purpose. In the place of those who fell away the whole world has been saved.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Imagine if we actually communicated that mercy. That\u2019s what the work of the New Evangelization is. Actually really living and communicating God\u2019s love and mercy for e-v-e-r-y-o-n-e..<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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