UNITED STATES
Christian Post
BY TYLER O’NEIL, CP REPORTER
March 6, 2014
WASHINGTON – Experts denounced the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child’s recent report in which it suggested the Catholic Church alter its positions on fornication, contraception, homosexuality, and abortion. The report, they said, is an attack on the Catholic Church and an overreach of U.N. power.
While the committee’s report emphasized the Catholic Church’s clerical sexual abuse scandals, it also called on the Vatican state to alter its positions on other, unconnected moral issues. The Geneva report criticized the Vatican’s opposition to contraception, homosexuality, and abortion in cases of child rape and incest.
Austin Ruse, president of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM), called the panel’s report “a dagger to the heart of motherhood,” and denounced it as an overreach of U.N. power. “A treaty-monitoring organization has told a religion to change its teaching on fundamental issues,” Ruse declared at a Family Research Council panel on Wednesday.
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