The following comes from a June 16 LifeSite News article by Father Mark Hodges:
Bishop Thomas J. Tobin took a tiny child, abandoned and literally thrown into the sewer to drown, and named him “Francis” before providing him a dignified burial.
The preborn Baby Francis was found January 12 at Bucklin Wastewater Treatment Facility, when a worker saw what he thought was a doll floating in the sewage. He was discarded at about 20 weeks gestation.
Police investigated for months, but could not find his mother or father.
On June 5, after giving up their investigation, the police released the body to the Catholic Diocese of Providence.
On Wednesday, Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence, Rhode Island, buried Baby Francis.
He explained that he chose the name “Francis” in honor of Pope Francis, who encouraged the faithful to change the “throwaway culture” of abortion.
“This child is certainly a victim of that throwaway culture,” he said.
“Every child bears the face of Jesus. This child does as well.” the bishop said.
While we do not know a lot about Francis, he said, “we do know this is a child of God, created in the image and likeness of God, and it’s in that spirit of honoring this child and…all the children who die of abortion, that we come together to bury Baby Francis.”
“We entrust the soul of Baby Francis to the abundant mercy of God, so that this beloved child may find finally a home in His kingdom,” the bishop prayed before a gathering of about 20 pro-life Catholics.
Seminarian Peter Cotnoir, who assisted in the service, reflected on the aborted children who never get a Christian burial. “It’s almost like they disappear,” he said. “Even after an abortion, there is still a body somewhere.”
Logical result of the satanic culture we live in, introduced by the wretched 60’s and 70’s generation….here is your real result of “free love”
The 60’s were the flower, not the seed.
Agreed, Anonymous: “The 60’s were the flower, not the seed.” It was “The Greatest Generations” (ha!) that raised the “Flower Power” generation. Why was there such a huge crop of children who descended so quickly into Hell? Something happened (or, rather, didn’t) at home – yet everyone wants to blame the ’60s generation. It was awful to live through this period of time.
I lay a lot of it at the feet of the advent of the birth control pill — no birth, no control and a whole lot of much younger women getting different types of female cancers and other medical problems from it. Then abortion became the back up when the pill failed. Pope Paul VI was right in his warnings.
What a contrast between Bishop Tobin of Providence who reached out to one single aborted baby and Archbishop Mahony of Los Angeles .
During the 1980’s, a cargo container with more than 14,000 bodies of aborted infants was found and the courts allowed for burial despite the howls of attorney Gloria Allred and the Feminist abortion chain,
Archbishop Mahony was invited to attend the funeral but he said he had a meeting in Florida, so he sent an auxillary bishop instead.
When the “pioneer” of Partial Birth Infanticide Abortion, Dr. Thomas McMahon of Los Angeles died, he was buried in Archbishop Mahony’s cemetery, Holy Cross, in the Field of Martyrs.
Catholics in Providence have a wonderful shepherd.
I wish someone had taken photos of Baby Francis so that the world could see.
We need more photos of the reality of the preborn baby.
Recently, Jesuit priest, Fr. Martin, proclaimed to a graduation class that God does not make cr-p. I wish Fr. Martin had shown those students a photo of Baby Francis so they could see reality of Martin’s message..
Very touching. Something that was organized by Joe Scheidler with the Pro Life Action League over 25 yrs ago in Chicago with the bodies of preborn babies retrieved by “dumpster diving” in the back of aboruarties. God bless those that executed that grizzly chore.
Would not more publication of this not increase the FACT that preborns are babies? I think so!
Amen to that, Canisius. So-called free love is never really truly free. People are always damaged in the process. God bless Bishop Tobin for doing this.
God bless all our bishops who defend and speak up for the unborn.
Amen to that one, too.
Bishop Tobin is correct, of course, we live in a throwaway society. we throw everything away. We threw prayer in schools away in the 60’s, we started throwing away unwanted pregnancies away in the 70’s, we threw away our conscience in the 80’s, in the 90’s our human dignity, and in the new millenium, we are throwing away our souls. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.