The US Ambassador to the Vatican, Miguel H. Diaz, was not the best choice for the job and his recent comments, although not horrible, could have been improved with some basic moral substance. Benedict in his usual firm, and absolutely clear fashion communicated his concerns about the freedom of conscience and government mandated abortion on demand in the new health care bill. CNA reports:
One area that the Pope highlighted as in need of “clear discernment” was that of “issues touching the protection of human dignity and respect for the inalienable right to life from the moment of conception to natural death, as well as the protection of the right to conscientious objection on the part of health care workers, and indeed all citizens.”
Pope Benedict concluded his speech by quoting from the “prophetic words of the late Pope John Paul II” to insist upon the “unbreakable link between an ethics of life and every other aspect of social ethics.”
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