(LifeSiteNews) — Cardinal Gerhard Müller has said that the U.K.’s ban on prayer in front of abortion mills is comparable to persecution under Nazi rule of Catholic prelates who prayed for the Jews.
Müller sent a written address to the conference Le Tavole di Assisi on September 6, with the topic “The new U.S. presidency. Throne and altar together again? An opportunity for the Christian West?”
Kath.net published Müller’s words in the original German.
“The Nazi ideologues knew in their hearts that killing innocent people was a crime before God and man,” the German prelate and former head of the Congregation (now Dicastery) for the Doctrine of the Faith stated.
“But they numbed their consciences with their racial ideology, which held that Jews and other peoples (such as Slavs) were not fully human and that therefore the law inscribed in the heart of every rational being, ‘Thou shalt not kill’ (Ex 20:13; Deut 5:17), did not apply in this case.”
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“Similarly, abortion ideologues know that the child in the womb is an individual human being who must not be killed,” he observed. “But in order to conceal the crime, they claim that children in the womb are not yet fully human beings and can therefore be killed if necessary.”
“To numb their consciences, they criminalize those who defend the right to life of the unborn,” Müller continued.
“In England, you can go to prison for praying for the lives of the unborn in front of an abortion clinic, just as in Nazi Germany, Berlin Cathedral priest [Blessed Fr. Bernhard] Lichtenberg died in Gestapo custody in 1943 simply because he had prayed for the persecuted Jews,” he concluded.
“This also applies to gender madness, which persuades adolescents that they can change their gender and drives them into lifelong physical misery and mental suffering through assisted self-mutilation,” the German cardinal added.
“That is why every Catholic in the United States, and especially the episcopate, should be grateful to the Trump administration for restoring the natural moral law, which is recognizable as a moral standard in the reason of every conscientious person, as the basis of government action in the leading power of the free West.”
The U.K. has introduced so-called “buffer zone laws” around abortion facilities, forbidding any pro-life activism and even silent prayer. U.K. pro-life activist Isabel Vaughan-Spruce was famously arrested and investigated several times for silently praying inside these “buffer zones” close to abortion mills. In June, the U.K. Parliament voted in favor of a bill that completely decriminalized abortion, allowing it up to the moment of birth.
