The Catholic church has a lot A LOT of money. If they wanted to stop abortion bad enough, wouldn't the Vatican have put it's money where it's mouth is at any point since 1973?
Daver
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<<Catholics: Do you think the Vatican has done as much as possible to stop abortion or are you disappointed?>>
The Catholic Church has always taught that there are no circumstances in which abortion can be considered the morally proper alternative.
That's the most the Church can do.
As far as the individual Catholic is concerned, MANY of them can do better at upholding and following said teaching.
<<The Catholic church has a lot A LOT of money.>>
Not really. The annual budget of the Vatican is no larger than the annual budget of the city of Chicago.
<<If they wanted to stop abortion bad enough, wouldn't the Vatican have put it's money where it's mouth is at any point since 1973?>>
The Vatican is smart enough to know that no problems - especially moral problems - are solved by simply throwing money at them.
As far as the Vatican's "mouth" is concerned, I've already told you that the Church has always taught that there are no circumstances in which abortion can be considered the morally proper alternative.
Farsight
The Catholic Church actually does not have a lot of money. I mean - it has a lot, but it also needs a lot just to function. There are as many Catholics on the planet as there are Chinese citizens. It has little money to spare - and much of that already goes to worthy charities.
I am not disappointed. I frankly don't know what more the Church could do. It's not like they could pay off congress and the president to get the laws changed in the U.S., and if they did, that would just make so much of a ruckus it would cause more problems than it solved. I think the only thing the Church could really do better is to be more firm on excommunications in relation to abortion. There's pro-choice Catholic groups popping up all over the place and they need to know they can't be both at the same time.
Ár Daonlathas
' Yes' the Vatican are doing a good job...............As far as the the Church is concerned, the Catholic Church has always taught that there are no circumstances in which abortion can be considered the morally proper alternative..
Does life begin at conception? Yes
Is a fertilized egg a complete and separate human being specially created by God? Yes.
Does God create a brand new soul every time a human egg and sperm unite? Yes.
Is destruction of a fertilized egg therefore an act of murder? Yes.
When our physical bodies die, do our souls go to heaven (or hell) forever? Yes.
Danny H
It was 9 Supreme Court judges that legalized abortion 36 years ago, and it will probably take 9 Supreme Court judges to criminalize it today. The Catholic Church nor any other entity has the power to change that. If the Church did, abortion would have been outlawed way back then. All anyone can do, the Church included, is work to influence and educate the nations to overturn abortion.
God bless.
irishlady
It's not the Catholic Church nor the Vatican fault that people get abortions it's the People's fault & what has money got to do with it?