Vatican cardinal calls on Catholics to stop funding Amnesty

[major.tom]

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"How can we say that killing a child in some cases is good and in other cases it is evil?"

Can it be the Vatican is going to start preaching "thou shalt not kill" during their sit-downs with such pious "leaders" as George W. Bush?

Either killing is wrong or it isn't, so which stance will the Pope take? "It's wrong unless we don't like the victims, in which case God understands?"

[DavidGig]

Abortion is one thing, but you really can't fault the Catholic church for not speaking out forcefully enough against the war. All the the mainstream churchs publicly opposed the war, but it was John Paul II who really led the campaign. He and Annan were the war party's chief opponents.

John Paul told the world that the idea of pre-emptive war was immoral.

[major.tom]

This is very true. Point taken, DavidGig.

[luke]

well hopefully this won't have much if any effect to donations, i mean, i don't think any sensible person could go along with this;