Pope = Arch-Reactionary Fool

As I wrote before in a previous post:

Dogma makes people believe the strangest things.

As the UK activist/comedian Mark Steel wrote of the then new Pope Benedict way back in April 2005:

So if the new Pope's going to stick to papal traditions, he could manage to be the one person in history of whom it could be said as a child he was in the Hitler Youth, but once he grew up he went further to the right.

Catholic Church - dogma first and foremost

Well, whaddayaknow...

Catholic church prefers nine-year old to die rather than to see any of "God's Laws" broken.

The regional archbishop, Jose Cardoso Sobrinho, pronounced excommunication for the mother for authorising the operation and doctors who carried it out for fear that the slim girl would not survive carrying the foetuses to term.

"God's law is above any human law. So when a human law ... is contrary to God's law, this human law has no value," Cardoso had said.

I wonder if there's anything in the bible that mentions abortion.
Or if previously the Catholic church had held different beliefs?

What about the alleged rapist - the girl's stepfather?

He (Cardoso) also said the accused stepfather would not be expelled from the church. Although the man allegedly committed "a heinous crime ... the abortion - the elimination of an innocent life - was more serious".

Therefore, according to the Catholic church raping a nine-year old girl is not as bad as aborting the fetuses in trying to save that girl's life.

Dogma makes people believe the strangest things.