Vatican official compares evil of abortion to suicide attacks

Published: 2007-04-24

ROME (CNS) -- Abortion, which leads to the deaths of innocent humans, is just as evil as killing innocent bystanders in a suicide attack, said the secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Some evil, like the shootings at Virginia Tech, are obvious and visible, said Archbishop Angelo Amato in an April 23 speech on terrorism and evil. "To the daily ration of evil" reported in the news, there must be added the evil that remains almost invisible and usually is presented "as an expression of the 'progress' of humanity," the archbishop told a Vatican-sponsored seminar for airport chaplains. As examples of evil presented as progress, Archbishop Amato cited "abortion clinics, authentic slaughterhouses of budding human beings" or "the laboratories where, for example, RU-486, the morning-after pill, is made or where human embryos are manipulated as if they were simply biological material."

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