* The Pope’s remarks came during a reflection on the Fifth
Commandment Oct. 10
VATICAN CITY — In his general audience Wednesday, Pope Francis
said that abortion “suppresses innocent and helpless life in its
blossoming.”
“Is it right to take a human life to solve a problem? It’s like
hiring a hitman,” Pope Francis said in St. Peter’s Square Oct. 10,
in a departure from his prepared remarks.
“Violence and the rejection of life are born from fear,” the
Pope added.
For this reason, parents who learn that their unborn child will
have a disability need “real closeness, true solidarity to face
reality, overcoming understandable fears,” he explained.
Pope Francis lamented that parents receiving a difficult
prenatal diagnosis often “receive hasty advice to stop the
pregnancy.”
It is contradictory to suppress “human life in the womb in the
name of safeguarding other rights,” the Pope insisted.
“How can an act that suppresses innocent and helpless life in
its blossoming be therapeutic, civil or simply human?”
The Pope’s remarks on abortion came during a reflection on the
Fifth Commandment, “Thou shall not kill.” In recent weeks, the Pope
has dedicated his weekly general audiences to a series of lessons
and reflections on the Ten Commandments recorded in the scriptural
books of Exodus and Deuteronomy.
“One could say that all the evil done in the world is summarized
in this: contempt for life,” Pope Francis told the pilgrims
gathered in St. Peter’s Square.
“What leads man to reject life? They are the idols of this
world: money, power, success. These are incorrect parameters to
evaluate life. The only authentic measure of life is love, the love
with which God loves it!”
The positive meaning of the Fifth Commandment is that “God is a
lover of life,” he continued.
“In every sick child, in every weak old man, in every desperate
migrant, in every fragile and threatened life, Christ is looking
for us; he is looking for our heart to disclose the joy of love. It
is worthwhile to accept every life because every man is worth the
blood of Christ. We cannot despise what God so loved!” Pope Francis
said.
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Chief Judge Releases 46 Prison Inmates in
Zamfara
As part of the effort to decongest the Nation’s Prisons, the
Zamfara State Chief Judge, Kulu Aliyu Gusau has released fourty six
inmates.
Kulu Aliyu Gusau while releasing the inmates in Gusau urged them
to be useful to their communities and desist from any wrong
doings.
She however warned the released inmates that anyone caught again
in illegal act who be made to face the wrath of the law.
In his address the Controller of Prison Zamfara State command,
Sani Adamu Potiskum who lauded the Chief Judge on her gesture to
decongest the State Prison solicited her support to urge all judges
in the state on speedy judgement of awaiting trials in a continued
effort to decongest the State Prison.
Meanwhile, top dignitaries in the State were in attendance.
Dalhatu Abdullahi Jangebe,
Public Relation Officer
Zamfara state Command