MACAU (UCAN): On April 24, the Church in Macau offered a special Mass, celebrated by Bishop Stephen Lee Bun-sang, paying tribute to unborn children who were denied the right to life due to abortion. A monument, called a Tribute to Unborn Baby Angels, was also unveiled at the diocesan funeral home.
Father Daniel Ribeiro, parish vicar of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Nativity, said the Church celebrated unborn children because it believes in the sacredness of the lives of everyone, including aborted fetuses.
“We should have a celebratory moment for the lives of the fetuses who were never born as they were aborted,” Jornal O’Clarim reported Father Ribeiro as saying.
“We as Catholics should pray for these children, these unborn babies,” he said.
A diocesan note, published ahead of the programme, said the Church’s plam for unborn children was a spiritual and pastoral campaign to raise awareness of the dignity of human life.
