Catholic Charity Assisted with Child's Abortion?

Federal authorities are investigating the actions of a Catholic charity in Richmond which helped a 16-year-old Guatemalan girl to receive an abortion in January, in possible violation of Virginia law.

And Federal officials notified the USCCB about this grave matter.

Four employees of Commonwealth Catholic Charities, Richmond, (CCR) have been fired and one supervisor with the bishops' Migration and Refugee Services agency has been suspended....

This is so unbelievable! How does one express feelings of frustration and anger? Is there relief that the employees have been fired! Perhaps now, they'll get the picture?

Assisting in the procurement of a directly willed abortion results, as I understand it, in a latae sententiae excommunication. And at least for some, it also results in termination of employment at a Catholic facility. Thanks God for that! Unfortunately, I would not be surprised if, in some places, they might be promoted.

The unnamed girl, who already had one child, had been fitted with a contraceptive device provided by CCR two months earlier, the letter said. CCR members signed the consent form necessary for a minor to have an abortion and had someone drive her to and from the abortion clinic.

Direct cooperation in the evil of abortion by a Catholic agency...How sad and revolting! After years and years, how could these people do this? Was it ignorance of the highest magnitude, or deliberate rejection of Church teaching and the natural moral law?

Nonetheless, let us pray for the teenage girl, her murdered baby, and those who facilitated in this crime.