RU 18/2009 - TURKEY, AUSTRIA
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TURKEY.
Certain information is relevant and significant. An Italian weekly
‘people’ magazine - `Diva e Donna' not to name it - published a letter signed
in a Turkish prison by Ali Agca, the perpetrator of the assassination attempt
against pope John-Paul II on May 13th, 1981 on Saint-Pierre’s square in Rome.
In this letter, written from prison where he will remain locked up until 20l0
for the murder of a Turkish journalist, he affirms that he “abjured since May
13th, 2007 the Moslem faith” and that he “became faithful to the Roman Catholic
Church”. This is undoubtedly some
result of the sincere mercy of the pope towards Ali Agca when he visited him in
an Italian prison in 2003. Pardon is an act of major love which, by itself, is
often creating good. But not always. One remembers the forgiveness that O.L.
Jesus-Christ offered - still before the act of treason - to Judas: “Friend, why
did you come? ”, with the success which one knows. - (ru; cf. LF Apr. 28) -
AUSTRIA. A catholic pro-life personality raised
strongly his voice to affirm again that the authorities of the Church in
Austria are guilty of complicity with the inexpressible evil, abortion. The man
is Mr. Andreas Kirchmair, former president of the catholic movements of the
Austrian diocese Steiermark. Quotation: “The murder of the little boys of less
than 2 years by Herode at Bethlehem, 2000 years ago, was terrifying… But what
occurs since tens of years to Austria, is quite worse: in our country each 2nd
child is killed already BEFORE his birth… In my eyes, the leaders of the Church
carry a heavy responsibility in this situation which becomes increasingly more
dramatic. Why? 1) The
murder of the children promoted by the State is an injustice established in
Austria. In our country a quiet industry of slaughter of the children,
partly subsidized by the State, has been established since long time. The
bodies of the children are mistreated like human primary product (for
vaccines), or are recycled as special waste and not even buried. The public
pressure on the pregnant mothers towards abortion is immense, and most of the
gynaecologists and many people of the medical community employed in the
hospitals already took part in abortions. The civic rights and the freedom of
thought of the defenders of life are continuously restricted, the Supreme Court
considers the handicapped children as a “damage”. In one word, the slaughter
of the babies promoted by the authorities is an obvious injustice, by
consequence we are no more living in a state of law. Face to this
catastrophic situation there is a peremptory necessity to have, on the side of
the Church, absolutely clear words, as well as proportioned actions and
resistance. Because those would prove if she is really defending
innocent children, lonely mothers and defenders of life. But she does not do
it. 2) Bishops
continue to defend the law to kill the children. Most of the Austrian
bishops… and civil servants of the Church defend since tens of years in public
the legal conditions resulting in innumerable killings of children (Mgr
Kapellari: “As to abortion, criminalisation is not a viable way”) and became
the accomplices of the Austrian industry of slaughter of the children.
Consequently they also refuse the `criminalisation' by the Encyclical
“Evangelium Vitae” and the doctrine of the Church. The cowardice, the
contradiction and the duplicity of our bishops paralysed the action of our
Church in the protection of the life of the children to be born, and
consolidated always more the abortion lobbyists in Austria (and in the Council
of Europe) in their intrigues. 3) The
Catholic Church in Austria is directly implicated in the system of slaughter of
the children. We recall: during years the pope pushed the German bishops to
leave the action “Donum Vitae” (FD), until the moment when they finally were
forced by the Vatican to quit it, in 1999. The movement “The Life Action Austria”
(ALÖ), which doesn’t care about the doctrine of the Church, is identical with
that one of “Donum Vitae”. The ”Catholic Action” (KA), under the authority of
the bishops, delegates itself collaborators to the ALÖ which, according to
reports in the media, emits consultation certificate being used as instrument
to proceed to the abortions. Since tens of years the dioceses and the
Conference of the Austrian Bishops send important amounts of money to the ALÖ.
On several occasions protests rose, also in public, against this abuse of the
donation money of the faithful and against the systematic disavowal of the Holy
Father: in vain! 4) Why
one continues to leave alone the mothers in distress and the threatened
children? “The credibility of our speech also depends on what the Church
does herself to assist the women concerned” (Benedict XVI). How many priests
were imprisoned, during the 34 last years, for having defended the mother and
the child? Did You, Monsignor, stay up against the discrimination of the unmarried
mothers and their children? Did You, Monsignor, protected the mothers against
the enormous pressure towards abortion? Did you speak in conscience with the
fathers, for whom the abortion is a `good deal', since it’s much less expensive
than the monthly payments to the mothers during years? Did you encourage your
priests to go towards the private abortion clinics and hospitals where today
almost as many children are killed than men and women die naturally? Or would
the alliances of the Church with the political power be stronger than with the
mothers in distress and the children in danger? 5) Many
alliances of the dioceses with the abortionist State. As to that, there are
terrifying parallels in history. In 1938 the bishop of Linz, Mgr
Jaegerstaetter, had suffered much because of the electoral recommendation from
the Austrian bishops in favour of the Nazis (at the time there was only one
single bishop to oppose it, the one of Linz, exactly like today auxiliary
bishop Mgr Laun of Salzburg). Many dignitaries of the Church, 70 years ago,
initially cooperated with the Nazis, against the will of the pope. You also,
Reverend cardinal, raised, in June 2008, in spite of vigorous protests, a
Viennese political woman – famous abortionist – to the level of “Commander of St
Gregory”, one of the highest distinctions for laics in the Catholic Church.
Alliances with the abortionist State are so strong here that even the
resounding speech concerning the abortion of the children to be born, delivered
by Benedict XVI in autumn 2007 at the Hofburg, evaporated very quickly. Your
representative, at the time, immediately skewed (“the declarations of the pope
are not to be understood as an interference into the established legislative
order (concerning abortion) of our country”, declared Mgr Kapellari). The pope
should have spoken first with his episcopal colleagues instead of the
politicians! 6) The
bishops sacrifice the children to be born to “social peace”. In March 2008
You, Reverend cardinal, criticized severely, at the time of a sermon in
Jerusalem, your predecessors because of their attitude towards the Encyclical
`Humanae Vitae'. But your own refusal of the Encyclical “Evangelium Vitae” (EV)
and that of the majority of your episcopal colleagues, as well as of many
persons in charge in the Church, is still much worse, proved by the following
assertion of a man of a high position in the Church and well informed: the
bishops would also keep silent face to the innumerable abortions “because, if
not, the `social peace in Austria' would be in danger”. In other words: the
killing of the children to be born would be, in our country, a human sacrifice
in favour of what is called “the social peace”, to which the majority of the
bishops feel more obliged than towards those children. 7) Even
on the catholic cemeteries the killed children don’t find asylum. In
Austria it’s known that each 2nd mother is concerned with an abortion (often
perpetrated under pressure) or with a miscarriage of her child. Through the
centuries, unimaginable sufferings and rages thus accumulated. Many men, even
the priests, have an enormous fear of it, even in ecclesiastical organisations
under their own responsibility. The burial of innocent ‘dead born’ or aborted
children depended on their dimension and weight, or even on their
baptism, since as well the State policy as 'the Mother Church' acted until
there, through the centuries, often in a cold and pitiless way. Millions of
children dead before birth were refused the last rest on the cemetery; instead
of that, their bodies were abused as human primary product (for vaccines) or
were recycled as special waste. -
Summary: massive resistance in the Church against its
doctrine as well as hypocrisy about the protection of the life of the children
to be born reached with the authorities of the Church in Austria, under Your
presidency, until now an unimaginable dimension. It’s true that the majority of
the bishops confess `with the lips' the “protection of the human being starting
from conception”, but at the same time they defend the abortion laws and
promote an advance policy face to the abortion lobbies (Mgr Kapellari: “I’m not
an abortion snooper”). They do not announce the Gospel of Life, nor support the
pope in the fight against the slaughter of the children, but they speak, when
dealing with the protection of life, with a “split tongue” and try to serve two
Masters (Mt 6.24). The official voice of the Church – which has become itself
part of the wall of silence and lie around the abortions of the babies - is
today without force nor credibility (cf. the parabola of the salt, Mt 5.13).
How many children have yet to be killed until the Church will change? - After having exhausted all the other means, I
feel obliged to criticize our ecclesiastical authorities publicly. I accuse
You, Reverend cardinal Schoenborn, president of the Conference of the Austrian
Bishops, and your representative Mgr Dr. Kapellari, of joint responsibility in
the abortion of the children in our country. Even if my voice is weak like the
one of the innumerable killed children, I humbly request the Holy Father to
delegate an Apostolic Visitor, so that he can place his episcopal colleagues in
front of their conscience, carry out the necessary clarifications and promote a
vigorous action towards the children at risk. Because only a papal
investigation can initiate this fundamental return towards the protection of
the life which will durably renew the Church and the society. With my serious
greetings, Mag. DI. Andreas Kirchmair, Piberegg, Austria.” End of quotation. - (ru; cf. AK April 8) - - O.A.M.D.G. - - |