"An unspeakable tragedy"
So read the statement issued today on behalf of Dr. George Tiller’s family. My heart, my sympathy, my prayers of consolation go out to Dr. Tiller’s entire family. Setting aside the unspeakable tragedies Dr. Tiller himself is the author of I must say that there is nothing, NOTHING about this murder that is good or right. Dr. Tiller, just like the innocent babies he killed, did not deserve this violent death. I mourn the loss of Dr. Tiller just as I mourn the loss of the hundreds of children Dr. Tiller killed or caused to be killed.
I’m certain that Dr. Tiller’s murderer will be found to have been somehow, someway, “linked to the anti-abortion movement” – there is no doubt in my mind that this will happen. Having said that I will say firmly and frankly that the murderer is also insane and is *not* by any measure a Christian. The true Christian knows, and the Catholic Church plainly teaches, that “the ends do not justify the means”.
Dr. Tiller’s murder will do nothing whatsoever to change the number of innocent lives lost to abortion — it will do much to cause the vitriol of pro-abortionists to increase. Ironically, the very people who assure us that it is okay to murder an innocent child, will shout loudly and longly that it is the pro-life movement who is to blame for inciting Dr. Tiller’s murder. May God have mercy on Dr. Tiller and on his murderer. I pray for consolation for Dr. Tiller’s family and for the family of the person who killed him. On this Pentecost I pray:
Come, Holy Spirit, fill the
hearts of Your faithful and
enkindle in them the fire of
Your love.
V. Send forth Your Spirit and
there shall be another creation.
R. And You shall renew the
face of the earth.
Let us pray. O God, You have
instructed the hearts of the
faithful by the light of the
Holy Spirit, grant us in the
same Spirit to be truly wise,
and rejoice in His consolation.
Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.