Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

Imagine if aborted babies were declared martyrs

ROME, May 31, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sitting around a dinner table in Rome at the Human Life International prayer conference where I was speaking last year I was confronted with the concept of the Catholic Church declaring aborted babies martyrs.  Liking a good theological debate, I politely suggested it was not possible since aborted babies are not even baptized, nor do they have a free will in offering their lives. 

The reply was intriguing as it surmounted at least those counterpoints.  “They’d be just like the Holy Innocents,” I was told: the babies killed at the time of Christ when Mary and Joseph fled with the baby Jesus from Herod’s terrible order to kill all children under the age of two.

The Martydom of the Holy Innocents

King Herod sought to eliminate the King of Kings, said Patrick Kelly, known also by his religious name David Mary Joseph. He spoke of the great potential for healing for mothers and fathers who have aborted their children to be able to be freed from their guilt knowing that their aborted children were in the loving arms of God.  He also noted the great intercessory power of this veritable army of countless souls of babies killed in their mother’s wombs.

read the rest here: http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/imagine-if-aborted-babies-were-declared-martyrs1

and here is a previous post where I addressed this issue: http://reclaimingourchildren.typepad.com/lumina_a_ray_of_light_aft/2009/10/be-not-afraid.html