Wednesday, December 15, 2004
STRONG WORDS AGAINST ABORTION BY ORTHODOX HIERARCH
From a reader's email:
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
The Patriarch of Russia, His Beatitude, Alexios II, has made the strongest condemnation of abortion that I have ever seen from an Orthodox Hierarch (quoted below). May God enlighten ALL Orthodox Hierarchs to make such bold statements in public.
+Fr. Demetri
"We are doomed to live in a horrible time when our nation is extinguishing. We have every reason to say that its extinction has moral roots," the Patriarch went on.
"To kill a baby in mother's womb is the most heinous of deadly sins. That precept has always been part and parcel of the Church doctrine. Meanwhile, the number of abortions in Russia defies imagination year in, year out. The nation is dying out, and that is nothing surprising. Does this nation deserve to survive at all, we wonder."
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If her words are headed there will be peace and Russia will be converted.
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!
