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Pope Francis opposes abortion.
McKenna 14
Josephine McKenna. Pope Francis Speaks Out On Abortion. Huffington
Post Religion News Service. April 26, 2014.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/26/pope-francisabortion_n_5215862.html
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis reiterated his strong opposition to
abortion on Friday (April 25), saying it compounds the grief of many
women already succumbing to what he called the pressures of
secular culture. The popes remarks, to a group of bishops from South
Africa, Botswana and Swaziland, represented a departure of sorts for
Francis, who has kept a relative silence on the issue as he tries to
redirect the churchs energies toward combating poverty and income
inequality. Francis expressed concern about the challenges the African
bishops faced in their communities, from abortion and divorce to
violence against women and children. Abortion compounds the grief
of many women who now carry with them deep physical and spiritual
wounds after succumbing to the pressures of a secular culture which
devalues Gods gift of sexuality and the right to life of the unborn, the
pope said. The rate of separation and divorce is high, even in many
Christian families, and children frequently do not grow up in a stable
home environment. We also observe with great concern, and can only
deplore, an increase in violence against women and children. All these
realities threaten the sanctity of marriage, the stability of life in the
home and consequently the life of society as a whole. Only two weeks
ago, the pope told members of Italys anti-abortion movement that
human life was inviolable and abortion was an unspeakable crime.
It must be therefore reiterated the strongest opposition to any direct
attack on life, especially innocent and defenseless life, and the unborn
child in the womb is the most concrete example of innocence, he said
at the time. Let us remember the words of the Second Vatican
Council: From the moment of its conception, life must be guarded with
the greatest care while abortion and infanticide are unspeakable
crimes.
Historical consistency confirms papal infallibility.
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Catholic Answers (Nihil obstat: Reviewed for doctrinal accuracy by
Censor Librorum Bernadean Carr [Licentiate in theology at the
University of Fribourg, Switzerland; Former editor and current columnist
of the San Diego diocesan newspaper, The Southern Cross; Diocesan
Director of Media Ministry; Instructor for the San Diego Diocesan
Institute]. Imprimatur ("let it be printed") issued by Robert H Brom
[Bishop of San Diego]). "Papal Infallibility." August 10, 2004.
http://www.catholic.com/tracts/papal-infallibility.
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Knox wrote to Arnold Lunn (a future convert who would become a great
apologist for the faiththeir correspondence is found in the book
Difficulties): "Has it ever occurred to you how few are the alleged
failures of infallibility? I mean, if somebody propounded in your
presence the thesis that all the kings of England have been
impeccable, you would not find yourself murmuring, Oh, well, people
said rather unpleasant things about Jane Shore . . . and the best
historians seem to think that Charles II spent too much of his time with
Nell Gwynn. Here have these popes [have] been, fulminating
anathema after anathema for centuries certain in all human probability to
contradict themselves or one another over again. Instead of which you get this
measly crop of two or three alleged failures!" While Knoxs observation does
not establish the truth of papal infallibility, it does show that the
historical arg ument against infallibility is weak.

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Disad outweighs and turns case. The McKenna ev quotes Pope
Francis strong opposition to abortion. And, historical
consistency confirms papal infallibility as there has been very
few contradictions from the Pope and between popes thats
CA.
Any risk Catholicism is true means we negate outweighs any other impact.
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Donald Gene Williams Jr. (PhD student at Trinity Theological Seminary;
Director of Evangelism and Apologetics at DTW Ministries).
DEFENDING THE WORD OF GOD BY EQUIPPING CHRISTIAN LAY PEOPLE
TO HAVE A MORE EDUCATED, INFORMED, AND STRONGER FAITH IN
JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD. Thesis. March 10, 2014.
http://defendtheword.com/uploads/3/3/1/9/3319720/layman_apologetic
s_thesis_10-31_14.pdf
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was a French Catholic mathematician and
Writer who argued; one cannot come to the knowledge of God's
existence through reason alone, so the Wise thing to do is to live your
life as if God does exist because such a life has everything to gain and
little to lose. If we live as though God exists, and He does indeed exist,
we have gained heaven. If He doesn't exist, we have lost little. If, on
the other hand, we live as though God does not exist and He really
does exist, we have gained hell and punishment and have lost heaven
and bliss. If one weighs the options, clearly the rational choice to live
as if God exists is the better of the possible choices. Pascal even
suggested that some may not, at the time, have the ability to believe
in God. In such a case, one should live as if he had faith anyway.
Perhaps living as if one had faith may lead one to actually come to
faith. Some have also called this the Pragmatic Argument. This
approach to apologetics deals with the issue of proving God in a very
pragmatic way. Pragmatic by definition means to deal with the
problems that exist in a specific situation in a reasonable and logical
way instead of depending on ideas and theories.172
Two impacts:
1. Disad is most probable The affs link chains are a bunch of
ifs, mights, and coulds. While, papal infallibility means
that abortion is wrong is most likely true. And, cross-apply
Williams try or die.
2. Disad has most magnitude Eternal suffering outweighs any
material impacts since its forever and the worst imaginable
experience.

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Pope Francis opposes physician-assisted suicide.
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Josephine McKenna. Pope Francis Calls Abortion, Assisted Suicide A
Sin Against God. Huffington Post Religion News Service. November
17, 2014. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/17/pope-francisassisted-suicide_n_6172982.html
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis has warned doctors and ethicists on
several hot-button social issues, attacking abortion, embryonic stem
cell research and euthanasia as playing with life and a sin against
God. In a strongly worded address that marked a departure for a pope
who tends to focus more on social justice issues, Francis denounced
what he called the false sense of compassion that was used to
promote abortion and those who regarded euthanasia as an act of
dignity. We are living in a time of experimentation with life. But a bad
experiment, the pope told members of the Association of Italian
Catholic Doctors at the Vatican Saturday (Nov. 15). Francis also
condemned in vitro fertilization, which he said promoted children as a
right rather than a gift to welcome, and embryonic stem cell research,
which used human beings as guinea pigs to presumably save
others. This is playing with life, he said. Be careful, because this is
a sin against the Creator: against God the Creator, who created things
this way. Francis has spoken out several times against the assisted
suicide movement, which he considers to be a symptom of todays
throw-away culture that views the sick and elderly as a drain on
society. On Saturday, the pope said it was unlawful to take a life and
warned of the dangers posed to the elderly by hidden euthanasia in
our culture of waste. The Vaticans top bioethicist recently
condemned as reprehensible the doctor-assisted death of 29-year-old
American Brittany Maynard, who said she wanted to die with dignity
because she was suffering from terminal brain cancer. This woman
did this thinking she would die with dignity, but this is a mistake, said
Monsignor Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, the head of the Pontifical
Academy for Life. Maynard, who moved to Portland, Ore., to take
advantage of the states assisted suicide law, took a lethal prescription
provided by a doctor and died on Nov. 1 after leaving family and
friends a final farewell message. The pope did not mention the
Maynard case but urged doctors to think carefully about their work and
take courageous decisions in their care of the elderly, ill and disabled
while protecting the sanctity of human life. Your work wants to
witness by word and by example that human life is always sacred,
valuable and inviolable, the pontiff said. And as such, it must be
loved, defended and cared for.
Historical consistency confirms papal infallibility.
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Catholic Answers (Nihil obstat: Reviewed for doctrinal accuracy by
Censor Librorum Bernadean Carr [Licentiate in theology at the
University of Fribourg, Switzerland; Former editor and current columnist
of the San Diego diocesan newspaper, The Southern Cross; Diocesan
Director of Media Ministry; Instructor for the San Diego Diocesan
Institute]. Imprimatur ("let it be printed") issued by Robert H Brom
[Bishop of San Diego]). "Papal Infallibility." August 10, 2004.
http://www.catholic.com/tracts/papal-infallibility.
Knox wrote to Arnold Lunn (a future convert who would become a great
apologist for the faiththeir correspondence is found in the book
Difficulties): "Has it ever occurred to you how few are the alleged
failures of infallibility? I mean, if somebody propounded in your
presence the thesis that all the kings of England have been
impeccable, you would not find yourself murmuring, Oh, well, people
said rather unpleasant things about Jane Shore . . . and the best
historians seem to think that Charles II spent too much of his time with
Nell Gwynn. Here have these popes [have] been, fulminating
anathema after anathema for centuries certain in all human probability to
contradict themselves or one another over again. Instead of which you get this
measly crop of two or three alleged failures!" While Knoxs observation does
not establish the truth of papal infallibility, it does show that the
historical arg ument against infallibility is weak.

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O/V
Disad outweighs and turns case. The McKenna ev quotes Pope
Francis strong opposition to physician assisted suicide, a.k.a.
the right to refuse life-saving treatment. And, historical
consistency confirms papal infallibility as there has been very
few contradictions from the Pope and between popes thats
CA.
Any risk Catholicism is true means we negate outweighs any other impact.
Williams 14
Donald Gene Williams Jr. (PhD student at Trinity Theological Seminary;
Director of Evangelism and Apologetics at DTW Ministries).
DEFENDING THE WORD OF GOD BY EQUIPPING CHRISTIAN LAY PEOPLE
TO HAVE A MORE EDUCATED, INFORMED, AND STRONGER FAITH IN
JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD. Thesis. March 10, 2014.
http://defendtheword.com/uploads/3/3/1/9/3319720/layman_apologetic
s_thesis_10-31_14.pdf
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was a French Catholic mathematician and
Writer who argued; one cannot come to the knowledge of God's
existence through reason alone, so the Wise thing to do is to live your
life as if God does exist because such a life has everything to gain and
little to lose. If we live as though God exists, and He does indeed exist,
we have gained heaven. If He doesn't exist, we have lost little. If, on
the other hand, we live as though God does not exist and He really
does exist, we have gained hell and punishment and have lost heaven
and bliss. If one weighs the options, clearly the rational choice to live
as if God exists is the better of the possible choices. Pascal even
suggested that some may not, at the time, have the ability to believe
in God. In such a case, one should live as if he had faith anyway.
Perhaps living as if one had faith may lead one to actually come to
faith. Some have also called this the Pragmatic Argument. This
approach to apologetics deals with the issue of proving God in a very
pragmatic way. Pragmatic by definition means to deal with the
problems that exist in a specific situation in a reasonable and logical
way instead of depending on ideas and theories.172
Two impacts:
1. Disad is most probable The affs link chains are a bunch of
ifs, mights, and coulds. While, papal infallibility means
that abortion is wrong is most likely true. And, cross-apply
Williams try or die.
2. Disad has most magnitude Eternal suffering outweighs any
material impacts since its forever and the worst imaginable
experience.

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AT: Pope Bad Teacher

The Pope is infallible on the matter of interpreting Jesuss teachings.
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Catholic Answers (Nihil obstat: Reviewed for doctrinal accuracy by
Censor Librorum Bernadean Carr [Licentiate in theology at the
University of Fribourg, Switzerland; Former editor and current columnist
of the San Diego diocesan newspaper, The Southern Cross; Diocesan
Director of Media Ministry; Instructor for the San Diego Diocesan
Institute]. Imprimatur ("let it be printed") issued by Robert H Brom
[Bishop of San Diego]). "Papal Infallibility." August 10, 2004.
http://www.catholic.com/tracts/papal-infallibility.
Given these common misapprehensions regarding the basic tenets of
papal infallibility, it is necessary to explain exactly what infallibility is
not. Infallibility is not the absence of sin. Nor is it a charism that
belongs only to the pope. Indeed, infallibility also belongs to the body
of bishops as a whole, when, in doctrinal unity with the pope, they
solemnly teach a doctrine as true. We have this from Jesus himself,
who promised the apostles and their successors the bishops, the
magisterium of the Church: "He who hears you hears me" (Luke 10:16),
and "Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven" (Matt.
18:18). Vatican IIs Explanation Vatican II explained the doctrine of
infallibility as follows: "Although the individual bishops do not enjoy the
prerogative of infallibility, they can nevertheless proclaim Christs
doctrine infallibly. This is so, even when they are dispersed around the
world, provided that while maintaining the bond of unity among
themselves and with Peters successor, and while teaching
authentically on a matter of faith or morals, they concur in a single
viewpoint as the one which must be held conclusively. This authority is
even more clearly verified when, gathered together in an ecumenical
council, they are teachers and judges of faith and morals for the
universal Church. Their definitions must then be adhered to with the
submission of faith" (Lumen Gentium 25). Infallibility belongs in a
special way to the pope as head of the bishops (Matt. 16:1719; John
21:1517). As Vatican II remarked, it is a charism the pope "enjoys in
virtue of his office, when, as the supreme shepherd and teacher of all
the faithful, who confirms his brethren in their faith (Luke 22:32), he
proclaims by a definitive act some doctrine of faith or morals.
Therefore his definitions, of themselves, and not from the consent of
the Church, are justly held irreformable, for they are pronounced with
the assistance of the Holy Spirit, an assistance promised to him in
blessed Peter." The infallibility of the pope is not a doctrine that
suddenly appeared in Church teaching; rather, it is a doctrine which
was implicit in the early Church. It is only our understanding of
infallibility which has developed and been more clearly understood
over time. In fact, the doctrine of infallibility is implicit in these Petrine
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texts: John 21:1517 ("Feed my sheep . . . "), Luke 22:32 ("I have
prayed for you that your faith may not fail"), and Matthew 16:18 ("You
are Peter . . . ").

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AT: Problem of Evil

Free will explains why humans suffer.
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Lee Strobel (Evangelism and Apologetics ministry co-director at Cherry
Hills Community Church in Highlands Ranch, Colorado). Why Does
God Allow Tragedy and Suffering? Christian Post. July 22, 2012.
http://www.christianpost.com/news/colorado-church-sunday-servicenotes-why-does-god-allow-tragedy-suffering-78737/pageall.html
This answers the question you hear so often: "Why didn't God merely
create a world where tragedy and suffering didn't exist?" The answer
is: He did! Genesis 1:31 says: "God saw all that he had made, and it
was very good." But if God is not the author of tragedy or evil or death,
where did they come from? Well, God has existed from eternity past as
the Father, Son and Spirit, together in a relationship of perfect love. So
love is the highest value in the universe. And when God decided to
create[d] human beings, he wanted us to experience love. But to give
us the ability to love, God had to give us free will to decide whether to
love or not to love. Why? Because love always involves a choice. If we
were programmed to say, "I love you," it wouldn't really be love. When
my daughter was little, she had a doll with a string in the back, and
when you pulled it the doll said, "I love you." Did that doll love my
daughter? Of course not. It was programmed to say those words. To
really experience love, that doll would need to have been able to
choose to love or not to love. Again real love always involves a
choice. So in order for us to experience love, God bestowed on us free
will. But unfortunately, we humans have abused our free will by
rejecting God and walking away from Him. And that has resulted in the
introduction of two kinds of evil into the world: moral evil and natural
evil.

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AT: Evolution
The Pope says evolution can coexist with Christianity.
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MSNBC.com news services, contributed to by Reuters. Pope: Creation
vs. evolution clash an absurdity. July 25, 2007.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19956961/ns/world_newseurope/t/pope-creation-vs-evolution-clash-absurdity/#.UMpyt2882So
Pope Benedict XVI said the debate raging in some countries
particularly the United States and his native Germany between
creationism and evolution was an absurdity, saying that evolution
can coexist with faith. The pontiff, speaking as he was concluding his
holiday in northern Italy, also said that while there is much scientific
proof to support evolution, the theory could not exclude a role by
God. They are presented as alternatives that exclude each other,
the pope said. This clash is an absurdity because on one hand there is
much scientific proof in favor of evolution, which appears as a reality
that we must see and which enriches our understanding of life and
being as such. He said evolution did not answer all the questions:
Above all it does not answer the great philosophical question, Where
does everything come from? Benedict also said the human race
must listen to the voice of the Earth or risk destroying its very
existence.
Give this 100% truth-value since the Pope is infallible on
religious issues cross-apply CA.

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AT: Excludes Gays

The Bible doesnt justify excluding homosexuals.
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John Shore (Founder of Unfundamentalist Christians; Ordained as
reverend by The Progressive Christian Alliance). The Best Case for the
Bible Not Condemning Homosexuality. Huffington Post. April 3, 2012.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-shore/the-best-case-for-the-biblenot-condemning-homosexuality_b_1396345.html
The Bible's clobber passages were written about same-sex acts
between heterosexual persons, and do not address the subject of
homosexual acts between a committed gay couple, because the
concept of a person being a homosexual did not exist at the time the
Bible was written. It is also critical to our reading of the New
Testament's three clobber passages to understand that while of course
Paul knew about sex acts that took place between persons of the same
gender, he had no concept whatsoever of homosexual persons.
Virtually no one in Paul's time was "out"; no one lived, or in any way
publicly self-identified, as a homosexual. Paul had no concept of an
entire population of people who, as a fundamental, unalterable
condition of their existence, were sexually attracted to persons of the
same gender, and not sexually attracted to persons of the opposite
gender. Here is the opening of the OCD's article on homosexuality: "No
Greek or Latin word corresponds to the modern term 'homosexuality,'
and ancient Mediterranean society did not in practice treat
homosexuality as a socially operating category of personal or public
life. Sexual relations between persons of the same sex certainly did
occur (they are widely attested in ancient sources), but they were not
systematically distinguished or conceptualized as such, much less were
they thought to represent a single, homogeneous phenomenon in
contradistinction to sexual relations between persons of different
sexes. ... The application of 'homosexuality' (and 'heterosexuality') in a
substantive or normative sense to sexual expression in classical
antiquity is not advised." We can be confident that Paul was not writing
to, or about, gay people, because he simply could not have been, any
more than he could have written about smart phones or iPads. We do
not know what Paul might write or say today about gay people. All we
know is that in the New Testament he wrote about promiscuous,
predatory, non-consensual same-sex acts between heterosexuals. If we
are to rely on the Bible, then we must take its text as it is. It does
condemn homosexual (and heterosexual) sex that is excessive,
exploitive and outside of marriage. It does not, however, address the
state of homosexuality itself -- much less the subject of homosexual
acts between a married gay couple. Christians therefore have no Biblebased moral justification for themselves condemning such acts.
Because there was no concept of gay marriage when the Bible was
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written, the Bible does not, and could not, address the sinfulness of
homosexual acts done within the context of gay marriage. The Bible
routinely, clearly and strongly classifies all sex acts outside of the
bonds of marriage as sinful. But, because there was no concept of gay
people when the Bible was written, the Bible does not, and could not,
address the sinfulness of homosexual acts done within the context of
marriage. Christians therefore have no biblical basis for themselves
condemning such acts. In fact, by denying marriage equality to gay
people, Christians are compelling gay couples to sin, because their
intimacy must happen outside of marriage, and is therefore, by biblical
definition, sinful.

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