POPE & VIVISECTION
About the new
Catholic Catechism.
Email
received October 2008:
The text to which is referred :
ion Pages 516 and 517
Numbers 2417 and 2294
and is as follows:
"God
entrusted animals to the stewardship of those whom he created in
his own image.
Hence it is legitimate to use animals for food and clothing.
They may be domesticated to help man in his work and leisure.
Medical and scientific experimentation on animals, if it remains
within reasonable limits, is a morally acceptable practice since it
contributes to caring for or saving human
lives."
There can be no doubt that these passages from the new Catholic
Catechism sanction animal abuse.
Pope Benedict's attitude is so different from that of the great
Mahatma Gandhi. Mahatma Gandhi was a truly spiritual man. It was at
the inauguration ceremony of the Medical Academy at the University
of Delhi that Gandhi stated that vivisection was "the blackest of
all crimes of which humanity is guilty against God and his
creation."
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Reaction AAP
:
“God
entrusted animals to the stewardship of those whom he created in
his own image.”
The evil starts with this arrogant and
unfounded assumption.
O yes, entrust animals to the stewardship of people who think they
look like God and behave accordingly.
Even if we would accept this statement, we are staggered by the
logic: “Hence it is legitimate to use animals for food and
clothing”, as it opens the door to use animals in any consumptive
or destructive way to help us “God-like creatures” in our work and
leisure.
This wide open door to animal abuse is illustrated by the statement
that Medical and scientific experimentation on animals is
considered a morally acceptable practice since it contributes to
caring for or saving human lives.
Action Against Poisoning is saddened by a sorry religious moral
standard in singular human interest that we cannot match with our
humanistic moral standards on behalf of animals.
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Article from the 30
October 1992 edition of The Catholic Herald:
FRANCISCANS TO BRING ANIMALS TWO BY TWO
"Italian
Franciscans are spearheading a worldwide campaign for a last-minute
review of an article in the Church's new Universal Catechism which
they claim renders animal vivisection legitimate.
The monks will launch their new drive by organising a 'march on the
Vatican' - and they will have a menagerie of animals in tow. They
are said to be keeping the date secret although it will take place
on a Sunday and will be designed as a 'surprise' for Pope John Paul
II when he appears at his balcony for the Angelus. The Franciscans
are protesting against article 2,417 of the new catechism, to be
officially promulgated on December 9.
The article says that within reasonable limits, scientific
experimentation on animals is a morally admissible practice because
it helps alleviate human suffering and could save human life.
Franciscans, who number about 13,000 worldwide, have already sent
the Pope a letter outlining their grievances."
Unfortunately the good Franciscan Monks were unable to influence
the Pope. The new Catholic Catechism was later published in
1994."
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A retired Queen's
Nursing Sister speaks out
Play Video
The objective of NMRM is the
IMMEDIATE AND UNCONDITIONAL ABOLITION
OF ALL ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS
ON
MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC GROUNDS
www.nmrm.org/
Nurses
Movement for Responsible Medicine
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Advise read
books
by Professor Pietro Croce and Dr Werner
Hartinger
Pope
Benedictus XVI
Pope
Benedictus XVI is a ray of hope for the animals. At a common meal
with modern youth from all over the world Pope Benedictus declined
fish, meat and poultry. Instead the party used a vegetarian
meal and the Pope said:
"The right way for Catholics to fight such horrible instutionalized
animal torture is not to eat God's creatures and to nourish on
vegetarian food instead".
Note from Action Against Poisoning: Although belated hopefully our
wish for 2003 comes true!
OUR
WISH FOR 2003
A CLEAR DECLARATION FROM THE CHURCH IN THE MATTER OF ANIMAL
PROTECTION
In many more or less civilized countries animal rights and
protection laws are non existent or disregarded due to cultural and
economical reasons. Consequently animals are in peril of being
neglected, hurt or painfully killed without any repercussion for
the culprits. The issue has rock bottom priority on the political
agenda. So we can not depend on the political system for effective
laws and law enforcement.
We experienced that in Portugal people refer to their religion when
they refuse to sterilize their cats and dogs: "we should not
interfere in nature's course / God's creation". It is remarkable
that by the same people deliberate poisoning of animals is accepted
as a fact of life. Obviously this example shows a susceptibility
for religious authority and a failing moral concept of animal
rights.
It is sad to notice that the church - the herald on moral issues
regarding creatures - is not heard on the issue of animal
abuse.
If politicians fail to establish a better life for animals, the
clerical leaders should take the moral stand. The animals deserve a
honest and human judgement.
Please speak out! You might be their only hope.
Papst Benedikt XVI
Ein Lichtblick ist Papst
Benedikt XVI. Bei einem gemeinsamen Essen mit Jugendlichen aus
aller Welt verzichtete Papst Benedikt auf Fisch, Fleisch und
Geflügel. Statt dessen wurde vegetarisch gegessen, und der Papst
sagte:
„Der beste Weg, wie Katholiken gegen eine solch entsetzliche,
institutionalisierte Tierquälerei angehen können, ist der, Gottes
Geschöpfe
nicht zu essen und sich stattdessen vegetarisch zu ernähren.“