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Movie Star Catholic Dad Puts It On The Line

August 26th, 2009

Pro-Life Convictions Worth Risking Career For: “The Passion” Actor Jim Caviezel

Caviezel gave an interview with the US magazine Catholic Digest, in which he spoke about the challenge he received from a colleague to adopt a disabled child as a demonstration of his well-publicized pro-life stand. Earlier this year Caviezel adopted his second child – a five-year-old girl with a brain tumour from the Guangzhou region of China.

Reflecting on the 51.5 million surgical abortions to date in the US since Roe v. Wade, Caviezel began by saying, “I was listening to Johnny Mathis the other day and I said, ‘What an amazing voice’. I have yet to hear another person sound like Johnny Mathis.

“Look, I am for helping women. I just don’t see abortion as helping women. And I don’t love my career that much to say, ‘I’m going to remain silent on this’. I’m defending every single baby who has never been born. And every voice that would have been unique like Johnny Mathis’s. How do we know that we didn’t kill the very child who could have created a particular type of medicine that saves other lives?”

Caviezel told interviewer Julie L. Rattey that the Christian is obliged to act in accordance with his faith, regardless of the risks. He compared the injustice of abortion to that of the mistreatment of women in some Arab countries.

I have encountered a bit of that lately; a challenge to be silent or acquiesce. What Christian doesn’t? It is wonderful to see high profile examples of folks living their faith in spite of what consequences may follow from that. I it reminds me of Matthew 5:13-16 – you know, that light of the world, salt of the earth thing.

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