“At just 11 weeks in the womb, “an unborn child smiles,” Archbishop Robert Carlson of St. Louis wrote in a column this week. “Skeptics say this is simply an involuntary contraction of face muscles. People of faith know better. We believe that this unborn child has already begun his or her lifelong journey as a child of God.”
He was picking up on a quote from Pope Benedict VI that “every child brings us God's smile.”
“Because we are confident that every child brings us God's smile, we believe that the smiling child in his or her mother's womb is telling us something important,” the Archbishop said.
God, the archbishop taught, is “not cold or uncaring,” but “loving and joyful,” creating the universe and every human person for the sake of love. Archbishop Carlson expressed his thoughts in the St. Louis Review, in anticipation of this year's Respect Life Sunday on October 3.
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Sunday, October 3, 2010
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