Module 5B - Current Issue (Body Paragraph 2)

Question 1

1. Topic Sentence

Answer 1

The Catholic Church’s response to abortion from the Church’s most recent ecumenical council, the Second Vatican Council has clearly condemned abortion as a moral evil through various papal encyclicals and Catholic letters

Question 2

2. Elaborating Sentence

Answer 2

In the Second Vatican Council’s 1965, ‘Gaudium et Spes’, the Catholic Church strongly criticises abortions as an “unspeakable crime” (CCC#51) and a grave violation of human dignity.

Question 3

3. Example 1

Answer 3

According to the Church’s teachings, life must be safeguarded from the moment of conception, as God, the “Lord of life,” (CCC#51) entrusted humanity with the responsibility of human dignity.

Question 4

4. Example 2

Answer 4

Additionally, the Australia Catholic Bishops Conference Letter endorses the Catholic Church’s firm opposition to abortion.

The bishops state, “Every human life is sacred and must be treated with the utmost dignity and respect, from conception until natural death.”

Question 5

5. Example 3

Answer 5

They reject abortion as a violation of this principle asserting that “the unborn child is not a potential life but a human life with potential.”

Question 6

6. Explain 3

Answer 6

This expresses the Church’s unwavering commitment to the protection of unborn life.

Question 7

7. Link Sentence

Answer 7

The Catholic Church explicitly condemns abortion as a grave moral evil, affirming the sanctity of life from conception through its official teachings and various authoritative documents.