Monday, February 19, 2007

The Holy Father says...It's about what's natural man!



In this period of spiritual rot and post-modern dispare it is time to get back to what is natural.



POPE SAYS 'NO' TO LAWS AGAINST NATURE: THE NATURAL LAW, INSCRIBED IN OUR VERY BEING, SUPERCEDES MAN-MADE LAW



In a speech he gave Monday, that was released by the Vatican on Tuesday, Pope Benedict, said that "No law made by man can overturn that of the Creator without dramatically affecting society in its very foundation. To forget this would mean to weaken the family, to penalize children and to make the future of society precarious."
His words were a clear reference to the passage last week of a bill by Italy’s Council of Ministers that, if it becomes law, would grant equal rights to de facto couples, including heterosexual and same sex couples.
The Pope said when the natural law is not respected, society falls victim to ethical relativism that harms individuals, especially families. He was addressing participants on the opening day of a three-day international conference on “The Natural Moral Law, Problems and Perspectives,” organized by the Pontifical Lateran University.
"Awareness of natural law is inscribed in our very being," he said. "This law is the true guarantee offered to everyone to be able to live freely and in dignity. …(It) has rules that supersede all human laws (and) does not allow for derogations by anyone." In fact, the Pope pointed out, "every legal order - internal or international - draws its ultimate legitimacy from being rooted in natural law."
He said the "concrete applications of the natural law" include protecting human life from conception to its natural end, and protecting the institution of marriage between a man and a woman. Life, said Benedict, "is not man’s property but the free gift of God." Any attack on this vision, he said, is "juridical positivism," where private interests become rights. Without this vision, he said, the weak are at the mercy of the strong. Without this vision, legislation becomes a series of compromises, and science and technology leaves humans open to manipulation, with "devastating results for all."

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