"Today Unborn Children Are Being Killed in the Millions"

During a sermon in the Cologne cathedral on Epiphany, Joachim Cardinal Meisner declared:

"First there was Herod, who ordered the children of Bethlehem to be killed,

then there was Hitler and Stalin among others, and today unborn children are being killed in their millions."

So? No problem there, right? Wrong! The cardinal was set upon by Liberalists, who objected to abortions being compared to the Nazi concentration camps and demanded an "apology."

But let's look at the numbers.

Every year around the world, 46,000,000 abortions are conducted. The total number lost in the concentration camps has been estimated from 6,000,000-12,000,000.

So, the concentration camps are a comparative blip compared to the firestorm of abortions. That's a fact.

What, then, did this cardinal do in response to the attacks? Stand by his statement -- which was true?

No.

In "oecumenical" fashion, he capitulated and "apologized," saying that "he would never have made such a comparison if he had thought it could have been open to misinterpretation." What misinterpretation?

The Liberalists, who stand four-square for free speech (not!), included Claudia Roth, the co-president of the Greens party, which is in coalition with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's Social Democrats, and by the president of the Central Council for Jews in Germany, Paul Spiegel, who told the press that he "cannot in any way understand how anyone could compare abortion and euthanasia to the crimes of the Nazis." This beknighted individual just doesn't have any imagination!

Then, too, the Oecumenical Movement "Initiative Kirche" got all out of joint. "Meisner has completely lost his authority as a bishop and has publicly done a great wrong to the Catholic Church and to dialogue between Jews and Christians," it said. Oh, yes, oecumenical "dialogue" must trump the truth, must trump Catholic teaching. You see how eating the phony Novus Ordo cookie has affected these peoples' minds? It seems that there was a little too much vanilla in the Cologne batch!