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Catholic World News

Italy approves RU-486

December 10, 2009

Italy has granted final approval to the abortion pill RU-486 but, unlike most other nations, will limit its use to hospitals.

“There will be excommunication for the doctor, the woman and anyone who encourages its use,” Bishop Elio Sgreccia said in July, referring to the penalty of automatic excommunication associated with abortion. The retired president of the Pontifical Academy for Life added, “First abortion was legalized to stop it being clandestine, but now doctors are washing their hands of it and transferring the burden of conscience to women.”

 

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  • Posted by: Minnesota Mary - Dec. 10, 2009 4:27 PM ET USA

    Please send Bishop Elio Sgreccia to America to say those same words---"There will be excommunication for the doctor, the woman and anyone who encourages its use."

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Thursday of the Second Week of Easter; Opt. Mem. of St. Joseph the Worker

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The Optional Memorial of St. Joseph the Worker was established by Pope Pius XII in 1955 in order to Christianize the concept of labor and give to all workmen a model and a protector. By the daily labor in his shop, offered to God with patience and joy, St. Joseph provided for the necessities of his holy…

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