Friday, July 1, 2011

ZENIT Articles on Abortion

A collection of articles from ZENIT.org on abortion.

 

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Trend to Kill Baby Girls Gets UN Attention

International Groups Look at Sex-Selective Abortion
June 29 2011

Promoting Abortion in the Year of Youth

Vatican Daily Warns of Aim to Break Parent-Child Bond
August 24 2010
http://www.zenit.org/article-30146?l=english


East Timor Resisting Legalized Abortion

UN Committee Calls Current Policies "Discriminatory"
May 25 2009
http://www.zenit.org/article-25993?l=english


Bishop: Abortion TV Ads "Deeply Damaging"

Decries Proposal of UK Advertising Authority
March 26 2009

Why Is India Short 40 Million Women?

U.N. Population Fund Maintains a Curious Silence
 
  
 

Catechism of the Council of Trent on the Eucharist



Again in perfecting the other Sacraments there is no change of the matter and element into another nature. The water of Baptism, or the oil of Confirmation, when those Sacraments are being administered, do not lose their former nature of water and oil; but in the Eucharist, that which was bread and wine before consecration, after consecration is truly the substance of the body and blood of the Lord.

Credo of the People of God on the Eucharist

From the Credo of the People of God:
Pope Paul VI

"We believe that the Mass, celebrated by the priest representing the person of Christ by virtue of the power received through the Sacrament of Orders, and offered by him in the name of Christ and the members of His Mystical Body, is the sacrifice of Calvary rendered sacramentally present on our altars. We believe that as the bread and wine consecrated by the Lord at the Last Supper were changed into His body and His blood which were to be offered for us on the cross, likewise the bread and wine consecrated by the priest are changed into the body and blood of Christ enthroned gloriously in heaven, and we believe that the mysterious presence of the Lord, under what continues to appear to our senses as before, is a true, real and substantial presence.35
Christ cannot be thus present in this sacrament except by the change into His body of the reality itself of the bread and the change into His blood of the reality itself of the wine, leaving unchanged only the properties of the bread and wine which our senses perceive. This mysterious change is very appropriately called by the Church transubstantiation. Every theological explanation which seeks some understanding of this mystery must, in order to be in accord with Catholic faith, maintain that in the reality itself, independently of our mind, the bread and wine have ceased to exist after the Consecration, so that it is the adorable body and blood of the Lord Jesus that from then on are really before us under the sacramental species of bread and wine,36 as the Lord willed it, in order to give Himself to us as food and to associate us with the unity of His Mystical Body.37
The unique and indivisible existence of the Lord glorious in heaven is not multiplied, but is rendered present by the sacrament in the many places on earth where Mass is celebrated. And this existence remains present, after the sacrifice, in the Blessed Sacrament which is, in the tabernacle, the living heart of each of our churches. And it is our very sweet duty to honor and adore in the blessed Host which our eyes see, the Incarnate Word whom they cannot see, and who, without leaving heaven, is made present before us."

35. Cf Dz.-Sch. 1651.
36. Cf Dz.-Sch. 1642,1651-1654; Paul VI, Enc. Mysterium Fidei.
37. Cf S.Th.,111,73,3.

Reception of Holy Communion

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Coat of Arms of Bl. Pope John Paul II
Some quotes from Church Documents regarding reverence for the Most Holy Eucharist and the reception of the Eucharist.

“The Christian faithful are to hold the Most Holy Eucharist in highest honour”
(Code of Canon Law, can. 898)

“Sacred ministers may not deny the Sacraments to those who seek them in a reasonable manner, are rightly disposed and are not prohibited by law from receiving them”.
(Code of Canon Law, can. 843 §1)

“Hence any baptized Catholic who is not prevented by law must be admitted to Holy Communion. Therefore, it is not licit to deny Holy Communion to any of Christ’s faithful solely on the grounds, for example, that the person wishes to receive the Eucharist kneeling or standing.

Each of the faithful always has the right to receive Holy Communion on the tongue at his choice.

“If there is a risk of profanation, then Holy Communion should not be given in the hand to the faithful”

“Communicants should not be denied Holy Communion because they kneel.”

“The consecrated host may be received either on the tongue or in the hand, at the discretion of each communicant.”