Friday, January 20, 2012 at 06:27 AM

We hold at the center of our Catholic values the inherent respect and dignity for all human life, especially the lives of the most vulnerable, the unborn. Please keep the pro-lifers attending the March on Monday in your prayers as they attempt to evangelize the world through their presence at this important event.
A recent question from an adult student asked: “Can a person be pro-contraception and pro-abortion and still demand to be recognized as a practicing Catholic?”
Even Jesus Christ couldn’t give a simple answer to a complex question. When the lawyer asked him what the single greatest commandment was, He answered that the first greatest commandment is to love God, and the second greatest is to love neighbor. He presented the issue of love as a two-sided coin. You really can’t have one side of a coin without the other. The issue of life is the same. Abortion is one side of the coin; Contraception is the other side of the coin. Yes, we Catholics must fight abortion, but at the same time we must be engaged in the clear exposition of Catholic moral teachings on contraception. Many people in our culture recognize this implicitly by claiming that abortion is the most effective form of birth control. Imagine that!?
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