The Linacre Quarterly

Volume 20 | Number 3 Article 6

8-1-1953 Invocation Delivered by Cardinal for American Medical Association Francis Spellman

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Recommended Citation Spellman, Francis (1953) "Invocation Delivered by Cardinal for American Medical Association," The Linacre Quarterly: Vol. 20 : No. 3 , Article 6. Available at: https://epublications.marquette.edu/lnq/vol20/iss3/6 88 THE LINACRE QUAR'l'ERLY THE LINACRE QUARTERLY 89

temporary sterility in order to amid conception, the action would e,·en then he sinful for them by reason of that sinful direct intent. INVOCATION DELIVERED BY CARDINAL FOR . Hence, fertility control, as it is presently enYisioned, derives its initia I AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION all(l essential malice from its opposition to the fifth commandment in its The following invocation was given by His Eminence Franci Cardinal precept against that form of self-mutilation known as direct sterilization. � Spellman, Archbishop Fat· from confounding Catholic morality, as one prominent educator has of New York, at the inaugmal convocation of. the already implied that they ,,•ould, these antifertility techniques are patently American Medical Association in the Hotel Commodore, Manhattan, on at oc'l