This makes me sick

[conuly]

Because she valued her unborn child more than her life, her other children went motherless. What sort of thing is that to do to your family, to tell them that somebody else who may not even live is more important than they are, that you love their little brother or sister more than you love them, that your god doesn't value your life enough to keep you with them? And now she's considered a saint. I'm sure this is a great comfort to her children now that they're grown up without her.

It's also nonsense, really. Traditionally, the fetus wasn't considered to have a soul until it moved... it "quickened" and quick in this sense means "live". So because she took an exceedingly strict view of life, she died. And the pope says she gave a "great sacrifice", but she didn't. She's dead. If she's right, she's happy in heaven, and if she's not, she's just dead. Her children and her husband, her friends and family, those are the ones who sacrificed for her.

Comments

[ril-chan.livejournal.com]

Women die in childbirth. Why aren't we canonizing them? Why just her?
I assume it would have something to do with intent...she knew that she had a very good chance of dying, and took a stand about it, whereas I assume it's not quite the same with most women who die in childbirth (and if I'm assuming wrong, then it's just because this one happened to be Catholic and happened to catch the Catholic Church's attention. ::shrugs:: ).

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

That's exactly why they're doing it, I know.

It's a bloody stupid reason.