Speaking the Truth From the Land Down Under

Cardinal Pell has warned Australian Catholic politicians for the second time that receiving the Eucharist and voting for embryonic stem cell research are not compatible. The Catholic Church supports adult stem cell research but holds that the in-vitro creation and experimentation on human embryo's is an affront to life itself in its earliest stages and needs to prohibited.

"All Catholics who continue to reject important Catholic teachings, even in areas such as sexuality, family, marriage, abortion, euthanasia, cloning where 'liberals' claim the primacy of conscience rules, should expect to be confronted, gently and consistently, rather than comforted and encouraged in their wrongdoing."

Thank God for shepherds in the Church who aren't afraid of warning the flock in order to save souls, regardless of the "political correctness." Let's keep Cardinal Pell in our prayers as well as the politicians who find it easy to disobey their own faith's teachings.