Who is this lady lecturing cardinals and other prelates on the virtues of world peace? And where is she speaking?
The woman is Simone Veil, a Holocaust-survivor who thanked God for saving her life by liberating abortion in France. The bill was proposed by Veil, then a deputy in the French National Assembly, was backed by then prime-minister Jacques Chirac, signed into law by President Giscard d'Estaing (the "father" of the dead "European Constitution") and it is one of the prides of the French Republic, which has dedicated a whole governmental website to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the "Loi Veil", this glorious "landmark law" (loi fondamentale). It is a law filled with exceptions, but it obviously became the legal basis for abortion on demand, as it has happened in all abortion-friendly nations (abortion has been since then commonly called in France "IVG", from the French euphemism for "Voluntary Interruption of the Pregnancy").
She is lecturing cardinals and bishops in the virtues of peace on the meeting "The courage of a Humanism of Peace" (Le Courage d'un Humanisme de Paix), promoted by the bizarre Communità di Sant'Egidio in Lyon, France, on September 9-13, 2005, under the auspices of Cardinal Barbarin, Archbishop of Lyon.
Sant'Egidio is, of course, famous for promoting the strangest events of the pontificate of John Paul II: the Assisi meetings of 1986 and 2002. The very strange things which happen inside this pseudo-Catholic community are described by Sandro Magister in this article (in Italian), including the widespread use of contraceptives ("contraccettivi") by the most "advanced" married members of the community, "because our children are the poor". You can see some of the allies of Sant'Egidio in this pre-conclave article (in English) and its ideology here (in English). It may be said with reasonable certainty that the unexpected Dominus Iesus declaration (unexpected because it was issued during the "ecumenical" Jubilee of 2000) was a direct doctrinal response to the universalist claims made by Sant'Egidio and its allies.
And now Sant'Egidio proudly presents the most famous abortion-promoter of Europe as an example to follow in its pursuit of a "Humanism of Peace"... And did the cardinals and bishops who were in this "assembly", held on September 11, including the host, Cardinal Barbarin, Primate of France and successor of Saint Irenaeus of Lyon, present any objection? Not at all, they just listened.
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Tip of the hat to XA, of the Forum Catholique.
