700 54 aatidxyz …~…According to a Catholic priest cited below the “Roman Catholic Church nor any Christian denomination or Faith offers as an Institutional Body, any pronouncement, dogmatic or otherwise, as to exactly when God infuses the immortal soul in the human person in the womb.”
whut I say aatidxyz00754 …~…Admitting they do not know when the sanctity of life begins, the Catholic Church spent a million dollars in Ohio to try to defeat the reproductive freedom amendment to the Ohio Constitution. They failed in a Republican run state. It’s a shame that all God’s money is being spent on a cause to save unborn souls when they don’t know when the soul and body are merged by God into one person.
We know there is material life before conception which means there is material life during and after conception when the live sperm and the live egg unite to become one live cell splitting and cell creating organism. But what about the spiritual body of the unborn? There is consensus among civilized people that protected life begins when separated at birth
The soul need not be present for the material fetal body to be alive. Mammals live without being made in the image of God.
Rev. James M. DiLuzio says “The unity of soul and body is so profound that one has to consider the soul to be the ‘form’ of the body. “Of course, the moment of ensoulment is unverifiable.”
whut I say aatidxyz00754 …~…About half of those living organisms never see the light of day as a breathing organism until moments after exiting the birth canal normally recording human history as the date of birth. Post Apr 14, 2025
whut I say aatidxyz00754 …~… if sanctity of life and ensoulment have no place in this discussion then it’s definite that you are a cruel human being when you want to arrest women in order to shame them if they have an abortion. Where do you think human beings get a right to life? The Man on the moon? Post Apr 14, 2025
whut I said rftmaraw01193 …~… I believe Nature’s God breathes spiritual life / soul into the body of a fetus and as the first breaths of air cause the lungs to start to expand and the ductus arteriosus and the foramen ovale both close. The fetus experiences ensoulment and then the baby's circulation and blood flow through the heart now function like an adult's.“ …~… Post Oct 17, 2024
whut I say aatidxyz00754 …~… This Catholic Priest says religious anti-abortion fanatics want government to force full term gestation on all woman just in case God maybe creates persons prior to birth. Post Apr 14, 2025
# 364: “The human body shares in the dignity of ‘the image of God’: it is a human body precisely because it is animated by a spiritual soul, and it is the whole human person that is intended to become, in the body of Christ, a temple of the. Spirit.
[5] GS 14 s 1 See :
Gaudium et spes (vatican.va)
# 365: “The unity of soul and body is so profound that one has to consider the soul to be the ‘form’ of the body: [6] i.e., it is because of its spiritual soul that the body made of matter becomes a living, human body, spirit, and matter, in man (sic), are not two natures united, but rather their union forms a single nature.”
This last statement that the soul and material body are inseparable, makes the Catholic sensibility that God, The Creator, infuses the immortal soul as sperm and ovum together create a zygote more tenable.
Of course, the moment of ensoulment is unverifiable.
As far as I know, neither the Roman Catholic Church nor any Christian denomination or Faith offers as an Institutional Body, any pronouncement, dogmatic or otherwise, as to exactly when God infuses the immortal soul in the human person in the womb.
Truly there is mystery here.
But, again, this fact does not mitigate the Catholic position that life begins at conception, and that humanity must respect every child’s right to develop and prosper