"Abortion a bigger problem than joblessness", says Catholic Church

[MarkCharles]

""Life is a sacred right that humans have been given by God," Rouco told the faithful gathered in bright winter sunshine from a stage dominated by a 68-meter-long altar and backed by a 12-meter-high cross.

Rouco railed against the current situation in Spain and Europe, declaring that Christ had lived in times of historic blindness, and that we were now in one of those times.

"The family is under attack in Spain," said the archbishop, who is also the chairman of the Spanish Bishops Conference, insisting that abortion and euthanasia in Europe was a deeper crisis than the economy or politics.

Also present at the Mass, the first major open-air event staged by the Roman Catholic Church in Spain since the Popular Party (PP) government took office last week, were some 30 bishops from around the country. Pope Benedict XVI, in a message from Rome, said the Christian family must be a "refuge for loyalty, respect and understanding."

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/english/Abortion/bigger/problem/than/joblessness/says/Catholic/Church/elpepueng/20120101elpeng_3/Ten

This is how the modern Catholic church intends to help the people, and bring themselves back into favor in Europe? Good luck.


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"Spain's unemployment rate rises"

"Spain's unemployment rate has risen more than half a percentage point in the third quarter to 21.5%.

The National Statistics Institute said today the country's jobless ranks swelled by nearly 145,000 in the July-September period. The jobless rate in the second quarter was 20.9%."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/spains-unemployment-rate-rises-2377036.html

[Angry Dragon]

1. The RCC leaders are so out of touch with humanity

[MarkCharles]

2. These are the men who swear never to have sex with anybody, female or

male.

Some Popes had mistresses, some priests had boys, and it's been going on like this for almost a couple of thousands of years.

And now they, (these men!) want to continue to control the bodies of poor pregnant young women who made a mistake in judgement? Ignoring the economic world of Spain today, a positively lovely landscape and mix of cultures on this planet, but a dying one, wherein tourism, wine production and olive oil are about all Spain can come up with so as to soften the blow of economic chaos at the banking and investment and governmental levels.

Spain is an absolutely gorgeous place on this planet, I highly recommend that people visit there and do so soon, to see the wonders and diversity one can see there, on two seas, Mediterranean and Atlantic, to see mountains and hillsides and orchards of grapes and olives stretching seemingly forever, to vacation on her beaches and in her harbor towns. She is a lovely country, but unfortunately even more steeped in Catholicism than Italy, I think. The massive Cathedrals and the squares of so many towns centered around the church. It's really sad to see such a wonderful stretch of landscape as is today's Spain so locked into a fourth century religion. A real pity, given all the splendor of that nation's geography and resources and location.

[LeftishBrit]

3. And these are precisely the sort of religious people whom I do hate

Those who are so obsessed with their version of 'morality' that they ignore everything else. Those who are not only against abortion but consider it more important than war or poverty. Those who would support the political Right because of their religious views. Those who would be prepared for their country to go down the drain economically; to see the poor suffer; in this case, to risk all the progress that their country has made in a generation (Spain wasn't a democracy 40 years ago) - just to enforce an obsession, which is not even a major part of the Bible.

[pokerfan]

4. Every sperm is sacred