Need for ‘holy lawmakers’

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Sydney
30 May 2004

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BETTER LAWS: Bishop Fisher

By Chris Lindsay

The world will need “holy lawmakers” if the better laws on the sanctity of life are to be preserved and the worse laws improved, says Sydney Bishop Anthony Fisher.

Such lawmakers would be holy “in the sense of well-informed, courageous, determined, prudent and effective ones ... who inform their consciences well, pray, judge and act”, he said.

Bishop Fisher said he had no doubt that the constant proclamation of the Gospel of life by Pope John Paul II and the activities of bodies such as the Pontifical Academy for Life and the Pontifical Council for the Family are having an effect.

However, the legal situation regarding matters such as abortion, cloning, stem-cell research, and euthanasia was far from consistent.

“In some places the laws are improving,” he said.

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