Catholic Cardinal Slams BBC for Attacks on ‘Traditional and Christian Morality’

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Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.

Cardinal Wilfrid Napier, the redoubtable Archbishop of Durban in South Africa, has denounced what he calls the devious “tactic” used by the BBC to undermine traditional and Christian morality.

Using his Twitter account, the African cardinal warned that the BBC is “determined” in its war against Christian morality, daily hammering home its agenda on key moral issues such as homosexuality and abortion.

The cardinal, who played a critical role in the defense of marriage and the family during the Synod of Bishops held in Rome in 2015, sketched what he considers to be the tactic used by the largest UK news network in its battle with traditional morality.

The method, he said, basically consists of identifying countries that have not fallen in line with modern “enlightened” positions on certain moral issues and then isolating them as out of touch and “abnormal”:

The Cardinal’s words came just as a battle is heating up in Ireland over a George Soros-funded drive to legalize abortion in the predominantly Catholic country.

As Breitbart News reported Tuesday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is the latest leader to join the crusade to pressure Ireland into overturning its pro-life Constitution. Trudeau has urged his Irish counterpart, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, to work to make abortion in Ireland a “fundamental” human right.

During a three-day meeting in Canada between Mr. Trudeau and the openly gay Irish prime minister, the two leaders spoke about Mr. Varadkar’s intention to hold a referendum next year aimed at repealing the Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constitution, which protects the right to life of the unborn child.

Mr. Trudeau said that he had advised Mr. Varadkar to push “reproductive rights” as a fundamental human right.

Billionaire George Soros has been financing the pro-abortion effort in Ireland through his Open Society Foundations (OSF), DCLeaks.com revealed last year. Soros reportedly intends to use Ireland as a prototype to overturn anti-abortion laws in Catholic countries around the world.

Another country targeted by the abortion lobby has been the South American nation of Chile, which until recently had stringent anti-abortion laws on its books. This week, the BBC aired news highlighting celebrations over a new ruling by Chile’s Constitutional Court, which loosened the country’s pro-life laws by allowing “therapeutic” abortions in certain cases.

Cardinal Napier has been a warrior for the pro-life cause and last year called for an apology from the U.S. abortion industry for the disproportionate number of black babies that have been aborted, which he refers to as “genocide.”

Quoting figures from Planned Parenthood’s own Guttmacher Institute, estimating that since the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, more than 57 million babies have been legally aborted in the United States, the Cardinal asked, “Isn’t this something we should be apologizing for?”

This year, Napier responded to President Obama’s farewell address to the nation by reminding people that Obama was a global advocate of abortion-on-demand, as well as an enemy of religious liberty.

Cardinal Napier underscored the irony of Obama as a “son of Africa” funding illegal abortions in Africa, as well as Marie Stopes International, the notorious abortion promoter that works throughout the African continent.

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