| Pope Benedict XVI caresses a koala at the Kenthurst Study Center in Sydney, Australia where the World Youth Day is being held. With him are Cardinal George Pell (second from left) and pastoral secretary Georg Gainswein. (Photo/”L’osservatore Romano,” Released via Ap) |
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CEBU Archbishop Ricardo Cardinal Vidal yesterday urged legislators who support the “Deaths” bills to search their conscience and decide whether or not to receive communion.
“If they think they have not sinned, it is up to them. I cannot judge their conscience, it is only God who can judge their conscience. I just tell them there is no such a thing as a lesser evil,” said the archbishop.
He acknowledged that a House bill that defines a national policy on “reproductive health, responsible parenthood and population development” does not support abortion.
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