Archbishop
Calls On Catholic
Lawmakers To Reject
Anti-Life Measures
The president of the
Bishops' Conference of
Costa Rica, Archbishop
Hugo Barrantes of San
José, exhorted Catholic
lawmakers to reject
measures currently under
consideration in the
National Assembly that
attack the family and
human life.
During a meeting with
Catholic lawmakers, the
archbishop expressed the
Church's concern about
some measures that would
modify the law to make
room for same-sex unions
and so-called "sexual
and reproductive
rights," which mean
nothing more than the
promotion of abortion,
sterilization,
contraceptive methods
and the introduction of
the morning after pill.
Archbishop Barrantes
said believers cannot
lead two parallel lives,
one "spiritual" and the
other "secular."
"The branches, connected
to the vine which is
Christ, bear good fruit
in every sector in which
we act and exist. Thus
the rupture between
one's faith and one's
life is avoided," he
said.
He urged lawmakers to
"promote the objective
moral and inalienable
truth that implies
defending human life and
dignity from conception
to natural death," to
protect the family
founded upon the union
between a man and a
woman, to defend the
right of parents to
educate their children,
to work for the common
good and to watch over
religious freedom and
non-discrimination.
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