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.“
