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Vatican Caves In To German Bishop On
Abortion Certificates
by Christopher A. Ferrara
 Although Pope
John Paul II has ordered the German bishops to cease issuing “counseling
certificates” which allow German women to obtain abortions, the Bishop of
Limbourg, Franz Kamphaus, is defying the Vatican’s order and will continue
issuing the certificates. [See CWNNews.com, Jan. 22, 2000]
After more than
a year of haggling with the Pope, all the other German bishops have ceased
issuing the certificates. Without a “counseling certificate” no
abortion is permitted under German law. Issuance of the certificates is thus
material cooperation in an abortion, as the Pope recognized in forbidding any
further involvement of German bishops in the counseling scheme.
In typical
neo-modernist fashion, Kumphaus has feigned obedience by meeting with Cardinal
Ratzinger and Cardinal-elect Giovanni Battista Re (head of the Congregation for
Bishops) at the Vatican to express his “agreement” with “the
Pope’s objective” of ending Church involvement in Germany’s
counseling scheme. Instead of ordering Kumphaus to stop issuing certificates
which are virtual death warrants for the unborn, however, Ratzinger and Re
apparently did nothing to stop him.
Instead, on
January 22 both Kumphaus and the Vatican issued statements to the effect that
Kumphaus would continue to allow “counseling centers” in his diocese
to issue the death-warrants for another year, after which he would
“compare” his “experience” with that of the bishops who
obeyed and stopped issuing the certificates. In other words, the Vatican caved
in.
Giving a woman a certificate she needs to get an abortion, after counseling her
not to abort her child, is rather like handing a loaded revolver to someone you
have counseled not to commit suicide: “Counselor: I implore you not to
commit suicide. Counselee: I’ll think it over, but I’ll take the
loaded gun.” Kumphaus directly facilitates murder in the womb, yet the
Vatican does nothing but issue a press release, while giving him permission to
go on facilitating abortions for another year.
Meanwhile, the
head of the German Bishops’ conference, Bishop Karl Lehmann of Mainz,
Germany, was suddenly added to the list of new cardinals to be invested on
February 21—a week after John Paul II had published what was
supposed to be the definitive list. Lehmann has openly dissented from Church
teaching on the admission of divorced and remarried Catholics to Holy
Communion, and in his theological writings has questioned the Bodily
Resurrection of Christ. His reward is to be made a cardinal.
And so it goes
in the post-conciliar Church: neo-modernist termites are coddled and even
rewarded with red hats, while Father Nicholas Gruner receives a threat of
excommunication from the Congregation for the Clergy. Excommunication for what?
For nothing. In the post-conciliar Church it is safer to facilitate abortions
than to preach the Message of Fatima.
Sister Lucia
spoke of a “diabolical disorientation” in a number of those who have
great responsibilities in the Church. What more proof do we need that Sister
Lucia spoke the truth?
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