Home Page Fr Aidan Nichols  Further Book Information Extracts on both web pages are taken from Abortion and Martyrdom edited by Aidan Nichols, O.P. Published by Gracewing, Herefordshire, England. E-mail: gracewingx@aol.com Tel 44 (0)1568 616835 Fax 44 (0)1568 613289 First published in 2002 UK ISBN 0 85244 543 1 FURTHER BOOK INFORMATION NIHIL OBSTAT Monsignor Gerald Chidgey,J. C. D. Censor IMPRIMATUR Most Revd. Peter Smith, Ll.B.,J. C. D. Archbishop of Cardiff Date 7 December 2001 The Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur are official declarations that a book or pamphlet is free of doctrinal error. No implication is contained therein that those who have granted the Nihil Obstat and Imprirnatur necessarily recommend or endorse the book or pamphlet. +Cardinal Cahal B. Daly writes-: I find the argumentation impressive ... I am sure that this study could continue and would be of real service to the Church. It would certainly be of direct relevance to the plague of abortion, which is not only evil in itself, but also conducive to a climate and culture which can really be called a 'culture of death' and which manifests itself in so many ways in today's world, particularly in the field of biogenetics and so-called theurapeutic cloning. The practice of abortion has not only killed unborn children, it has also killed, or at least anaesthetised, consciences in respect of the sacredness and inviolability of human life. Contents Abbreviations vii Introduction 1 Aidan Nichols, O.P. 1 Setting the question 4 Philippe Jobert, O.S.B. and Aidan Nichols, O.P. 2 On whether aborted children should be claimed as members of the Church 8 John F. McCarthy 3 King Herod and the Martyr-Children 32 Peter Kwasniewshi 4 Can the Church declare 'holy martyrs' little children slain by abortion? 51 Denis Biju-Duval 5 The martyr status of the aborted child: a share in Christ's witness to the Father of mercies 63 Michele M. Schumacher 6 'Associated with this Paschal Mystery': Gaudium et Spes 22, Tradition, the Magisterium, and the question at hand 79 Hugh Barbour, 0. Praem. 7 Aborted infants as martyrs: are there wider implications? 103 Brian Harrison, 0. S. 8 Holy Innocents in our times 120 Philippe Jobert, 0. S.B. 9 The Way of the Lamb 126 John Saward 10 An appeal to the Church: the Agreed Statement of the Solesmes Consultation, and some supplementary theses 130 A postscript to the Agreed Statement and supplementary theses 134 Philippe Jobert, 0.S. B. Appendix: sources in the Magisterium and St Thomas 136 John F. McCarthy Index of Names 163 Note on Contributors Hugh Barbour is Prior of St Michael's Abbey, Orange Denis Biju-Duval is Professor of Pastoral Theology at the Lateran University Brian Harrison is Professor of Moral Theology at the Catholic University of Puerto Rico Philippe Jobert is Professor of Dogmatic Theology at the Abbey of S. Pierre de Solesmes Peter Kwasniewski is Instructor in Philosophy at the International Theological Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at Gaming, Austria John. F. McCarthy is Capo Ufficio in the Roman Congregation for the Eastern Churches John Saward is Professor of Dogmatic Theology at the International Theological Institute (a Papal institute of graduate theology in Gaming, Austria). Aidan Nichols is Prior of Blackfriars, Cambridge Michele M. Schumacher is collaboratrice scientifique externe in the Faculty of Theology of the University of Fribourg Compilation and editorial material Copyright © Aidan Nichols OP 2002 Copyright for individual chapters resides with the authors. Version: 18th July 2009 Home Page Fr Aidan Nichols  Further Book Information