‘Manipulation of man’

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33878, 25 June 1975, Page 15

‘Manipulation of man’

(N.Z.P.A.Reuter—Copyright) ROME, June 24.

Pope Paul yesterday strongly criticised birth control, euthanasia, and abortion, all of which, he said, would be considered by history as a contemporary world debit. The Pontiff was speaking to the College of Cardinals to mark his birthday, and the twelfth anniversary of his coronation on June 30. “We would not want to forget the assaults perpetrated today, in the name of a misunderstood freedom that offends God and debases man, by a society that does not want to recognise any other moral law than that of its own sufficiency and its own affirmations,” he said. “W’e are referring to artificial birth control, to abortion, to euthanasia, and to all those forms, whether open or disguised, of manipulation of man, which now indicate, and will indicate in the future, a grave debit for the contemporary world on the quadrant of history.’’ Mission completed I North and South Vietnam have notified the four member nations of the International Commission for Control and Supervision in South Vietnam —Poland, Hungary, Indonesia and Iran—of the completion of its work— Tokyo. June 24. Arms cache blast A clandestine arms cache' in the small town of Monte; San Pietro, in north-central; I Italy, exploded during the i night. First reports say that I !the weapons and explosives! iwere hidden in a house; ; belonging to the custodian of I la local cemetery.—Monte San; IPietro, June 24. *