Abortions performed by either trained or self-taught midwives not only maim the woman, they also often lead to death.
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This web log shall concern itself with the issue that Saint Arnulf of Metz struggled with his whole life: how to reconcile our Catholic faith with a life lived in the world.
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Saint Arnulf of Metz
Born near Nancy, to a Frankish noble family in 582 AD, Arnulf gave distinguished service at the Austrasian court under Theudebert II (595-612). Though a capable man, he was also very much a man of the world, renouncing his wife Doda after a quarrel and becoming known for being “full lusty and ready for all delights." At the age of thirty, repenting of his sinful ways, he wished to retire to a monastery where he could make his peace with God. Instead, in 614, he was made bishop of Metz, despite a layman at the time. Even while serving as a model bishop, Arnulf, along with with Saint Pippin of Landen, served as chief adviser to kings Clotaire the Great and Dagobert I. In 627 AD Arnulf was finally allowed to retire to a mountain site in the Vosges, to implement his lifelong resolution to become a hermit. His friend Romaric had preceded him to the mountains and had already established the monastery of Remiremont there. Arnulf settled there, and remained there until his death twelve years later.
Arnulf is known as the patron saint of brewing. His feast day is either July 18 or August 16.
Arnulf is known as the patron saint of brewing. His feast day is either July 18 or August 16.
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7 comments:
You've got to post more often, you seemed have almost halted about the point I started following a year or so ago! To this post though, I can't imagine that it was a poster actually advocating against abortion was it? Probably more towards non-professionals doing it?
Thanx for your kind words.
Abortion was made legal in the Soviet Union in 1920 and then re-criminalized after Stalin consolidated power. When I made the post, I thought it had been made illegal earlier, but it actually wasn't until 1936 when the Central Executive Committee of the USSR issued a decree that prohibited abortions, while increasing financial help to mothers, families with multiple children, expanding the availability of obstetrical services and childcare facilities, more strictly enforcing child support obligations, and providing for minor changes in the divorce law. Abortion was allowed only in exceptional cases, such as a severe threat to a woman’s life or health, or upon indication of debilitating hereditary diseases of the parents.
After Stalin’s death, the prosecution of women for abortions was stopped on August 5, 1954. On November 23, 1955, the ban on abortion was lifted, and abortions were allowed on request if performed in a medical institution.
For the record, Lenin and Trotsky were the pro-aborts, Stalin was against it.
Thanks, that's interesting and something I had frankly been ignorant of. But why was Stalin so interested in it; to ensure repopulation after his purges (the ones that had ocurred/were still ocurring/would be ocurring)?
Stalin was an ex-seminarian and, no matter how far left he was on economics, he was actually rather conservative on social matters. His taste in art and architecture was very traditional, he was rather prudish about family maters, he routinely criticized Shostakovich's "modernism." We even find this in his theoretical writings, where he adapts the Aristotelian categories he learned in seminary to Marxism.
I know a bit about Stalin and his time at the seminary and I'm not sure if I can buy into his experience there being a contributing factor in that, leaving me still wondering what the motive was behind that small bit of chosen morality. I tend to think his "conservatism" just happened to be coincidental to his need to stop any and all dissent. - Thanks for the conversation, I don't find many people interested in or willing to discuss history, let alone Stalin (one of those vague names from the past that kids ocassionally hear something or other about...)
I think it's pretty well accepted that Stalin was a social conservative. While Lenin was cosmopolitan and university educated, as were his urban associates Kaminev, Zinoviev, Trotsky, and Krupskya, the circles around Stalin were usually provincial and poorly educated. With the death of Lenin, cosmopolitans like Emma Goldman found themselves unwelcome and dreamers like Bukharin were replaced by hard-nosed commissars like Kaganovich, Ordzhonikidze, and Mikoyan, all of whom had fairly old fashioned views of sexual morality.
As if to prove this pattern, Stalin usually chose sexual deviants to head up the secret police, probably so they could be denounced at his pleasure for indulging in "bourgeois sexual excess." Yagoda was a compulsive gambler and womanizer, Yezhov was bisexual, and Beria was a serial rapist.
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