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SPECIAL REPORT NO. 86 CHRISTMAS,1991 ISSN 0899-420X OFFICERS/DIRECTORS Rev. Paul Marx, OSB, PhD President Magaly Llaguno Treasurer • PRO-LIFE MISSIONARIES JOURNEY TO CENTRAL AMERICA Rev. Laubach, OSB Secretary Robert Lalonde • TROUBLE INPARADISE— THANKS TO P.P. Vice President Rev. Matthew Habiger, OSB, PhD • YOUR TAXES TRAIN MEDI-KILLERS Special Assistant Engler Special Consultant • H.L.I. MEETING STIRS COLOMBIA'S PRO-LIFERS Jean Guilfoyle Director o f International Studies • A MARXIST OIL SPILL WORSE THAN ALASKA'S Michele La Palm Director of Program Services William Marshner • DOCTOR SHOWS GOD'S PLAN FOR NATURAL FAMILIES Editor of HLI Reports James Miller Director of Research Rev. Raymond Mulhem Dear Pro-Life Apostle, Editor of Parish Notes Rev. Albert Salmon Consultant, Latin America Vernon Kirby August 13-19found me in beautiful, resource-rich, mountainous, Director o f Publications volcanic and earthquake-prone Costa Rica. HLI and our branch,t he FOREIGN ADVISORS Asociación para la Defensa de la Vida (ADEVI), co-spons ored a three- Ernesto Cardinal Corripio-Ahumada Mexico day Seminar on Morality and SexEducation in San José, the ca pital. Dominic Cardinal Ekandem Nigeria With me on thefaculty were HLI's incomparable Barbara Mc Guigan from Jaime Cardinal Sin California and Ruth Stearns of Catholics United forLife. Angelo Fernandes India Rev. Alphonse de Valk, CSB Costa Rica is the charming,democratic paradise of Central Canada H. P. Dunn, MD America. On histhird journey to theNew World in 1502, Christophe r New Zealand Columbus named Costa Rica (Rich Coast), assuming the landwas filled Sr. Lucille Durocher, CSJ Canada with precious metals. Her realtreasures include aquamarine waters, Siegfried Ernst, Sr., MD Germany glistening beaches, sprawling inland valleys that give way to vast Babette Francis Australia green savannas,mountain slopes canopied with majestic trees, ba lmy Lejeune, MD breezes caressing stunning plateaus and, down below, dense jungle France Claude and Glenys Newbury, MD stretching out under a blanket of mist. South Africa Peggy Norris, MD England Josef Roetzer, MD NEVER-ENDING SPRING The country's botanical and biological resources Austria are second only to Cuba's.Merck,theworld's largest pharmaceutical Philippe Schepens, MD Belgium company,is spending millions to screen plants,microbes and insects Johann Wilde, MD Austria from thelush tropical forests for possible uses in drugs. C osta Rev. Anthony Zimmerman, SVD Japan Rica has 12,000 square kilometers of protected lands.

USA ADVISORS Virginia Evers Colorful, vibrant flowersflourish everywhere and thousands of John Finn Virginia D. Gager varieties of orchids dazzle your senses. Scientists arestill Hymie Gordon, MD Carl N. Karcher discovering new and exotic flora and fauna. Costa Rica's soil is home Charles E. Rice, JSD to twice as many species oftrees as arefound in thecontinental USA. Ted Rowell Scheidler Elizabeth Stong Joseph Woltering At the heart ofCosta Rica is a jagged, mountainous spinethat runs through the country,tilting thelandscape steeply on the BRANCHES Argentina Nigeria Pacific side; the sloping terrain, etched with fast-flowing rivers , Austria Paraguay Brazil (2) Peru gives Costa Rica an abundance of electrical power,which ne ighboring Canada Philippines Chile Poland (2) countries buy. Costa Rica Singapore Czechoslovakia (2) Sri Lanka Ecuador South Africa (2) The country enjoys a perfect tropical climate,a kind of never- Great Britain (2) Sweden India (3) Trinidad Kenya Uruguay Malaysia West Germany (please turn) Mexico Yugoslavia

Pope John Paul II to Fr. Marx: 'You have much experience; you are doing the most important work on earth." 17 N ovem ber 1979 ALL GIFTS ARE FULLY TAX-DEDUCTIBLE. ending spring. Three outstanding wilderness areas (12% of the national territory) contain exquisite national parks and shelter almost all of the 12,000 varieties of plants, 237 species of mammals, 848 kinds of birds and 361 different reptiles and amphibians that are native to the country. Fascinating, too, are the 120 volcanoes (some are active), caves and hot springs.

This diminutive country (smaller than West Virginia) is just 10 degrees north of the Equator. At the narrowest point (east to west), just 75 miles separate the Atlantic Ocean from the mighty Pacific; the widest span is only 180 miles. From north to south, Costa Rica stretches 275 miles.

At 12,606 feet, Mount Chirripo is the highest mountain in Costa Rica. Twelve miles from San José is the famous Ojo de Agua (Eye of Water), a natural fountain that spouts 6,300 gallons of water per minute from an undergound river.

Costa Rica's first export is coffee; she's second only to Ecuador in exporting bananas, and is the world's second-largest producer of macadamia nuts, after Hawaii. From her flat northern plains, the country also exports a great deal of frozen beef, mainly to Europe.

A NATION WITH NO ARMY Invading Spaniards massacred the fiercely resisting Guaymi Indians. So few survived that Costa Rica today is unique among Latin American countries; almost all her people are of European descent, mostly Spanish. With 2.7 million ticos (the local name for the inhabitants), Costa Rica is one of the oldest democracies in the Americas. After a civil war in 1948-49, the nation abolished her army. The commitment to maintain peace and democratic freedoms has earned Costa Rica the reputation of being "the Switzerland of the Americas"; in fact, the varied terrain and the beautiful, sloping green mountains with their grazing animals do remind you of Switzerland.

As early as 1848, the country established a free but compulsory educational system. Next to Chile, she has the highest literacy rate in Latin America (93%-plus), an extremely low infant mortality rate, and an average life expectancy of more than 70 years. Having a large middle class, Costa Rica is the most stable country politically in Latin America, and the best off economically, even if she does bear a fearsome $4 billion foreign debt.

Kindly, peace-loving Costa Ricans took in 400,000 refugees from Panama and Nicaragua during the '70s and '80s. The government estimates 40,000 illegal Nicaraguan immigrants are living in the country. Former Contra guerrillas rob, rape and rustle. Planned Parenthood (PP) tells Costa Ricans they have too many people, but fully one-third of the land isn't being used; the year-round growing season could support many more people.

Costa Rica's telephone system is one of the best in Latin America. There are six Spanish-speaking TV stations, including one operated 24 hours a day by evangelical sects; one English-language cable channel from the USA is now available in most of the central valley. There are more than 100 radio stations and three daily newspapers.

In 1969, the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) established an affiliate deceptively called "the Asociación Demográfica" (AD), under the leadership of a "Catholic" doctor, Victor Morgan. The eloquent, very wealthy Morgan can be found lecturing for IPPF all over the world. (Strangely, his daughter appeared as a sincere volunteer at a meeting promoting chastity.) The man is subtle and dangerous.

As in other countries, AD-PP networks with various groups, including the "gay" movement, which surfaced last year; AD-PP hides behind many fronts. Because it's had

-2- little opposition, it's become very bold, suggesting a pornographic sex "education" program for the schools. Strangely, Abp. Román Arrieta Villalobos, a pleasant and gracious man, approved of it. However, the intervention of the papal nuncio and a group of alert Catholic laymen stopped it. A committee of the latter was to study the issue and propose a good program. According to the latest reports, though, they were unable to prevent the réintroduction of the AD-PP plan.

The condom is advertised freely as the great preventer of VD and AIDS. An AD-PP- affiliated company calling itself "Pro Familia" (!) has highway billboards showing a father with one child, above the caption, "Have only as many children as you can make happy." The same company sells baby foods and baby clothes, but apparently believes it can make more money on birth prevention paraphernalia.

A university law professor told me a doctor offered him 10,000 free condoms if he'd give them out to students at a campus fiesta. Who paid for them? You did, most likely, through grants from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and tax- supported IPPF.

KNOW YOUR ENEMY As in other countries, PP has its tentacles in the media and government, particularly in the health and education departments. I pleaded with all my audiences to know who their enemy is, told them about IPPF's tactics all over the world, and begged them to picket the home of Dr. Morgan (Costa Rica's Public Enemy No. 1) and the AD-PP headquarters— satan's nerve center in this beautiful land.

The most common means of birth control are the abortifacient Pill, the condom and the abortifacient IUD (Copper-T), in that order. Strangely, there's no organized Natural Family Planning (NFP) program; a U.S. couple, the Timothy Robinsons, made a good start, but the bishops refused to support them financially, so they left to work with the great Fr. Aloysius Schwartz in Mexico. (By the way, please pray for him— he's gravely ill.)

Besides the Archdiocese of San José, the country has five dioceses. I spoke to all the of the Archdiocese (80-90 men), with the Archbishop and his auxiliary present. They listened attentively as I described the anti-life situation around the world, the various activities of IPPF, and the remedies: promoting chastity and preparing people for truly Christian marriage (including NFP). We armed them all with pro-life literature (provided by your generosity) and promised every pastor anything he needed. Because many Costa Ricans speak English, we sent a mountain of English-language material in advance and lugged in as much as we could, with our office in Miami supplying the Spanish-language literature and audiovisuals.

Costa Rica's one major seminary has 190 theologians; there are six minor seminaries, some of which teach philosophy also. The number of vocations compares very favorably with other countries in Latin America. In this small country there are 500 priests and some 1,300 , all in habit. Good Catholic parents told us how, in the late '60s, Franciscan nuns and priests from the USA set up two high schools, St. Francis for boys and St. Clare for girls. They introduced a strange, heterodox liberalism; the local sisters refused to imitate the modernly-dressed gringo nuns.

Our seminar was a huge success, drawing 420 paid participants from all over the country. Besides Barbara, Ruth and yours truly, local doctors and university professors gave talks. Theirs was a high-quality performance, and audience response was magnificent.

WE WARN THE FIRST LADY One highlight of our trip was an evening when I spoke to 60 university students housed by priests. Another was a half-hour chat with Pres. Rafael Angel Calderon's gracious wife, Gloria. We left key pro-life/family literature

-3- (please turn) with her; she's wined and dined by IPPF, whose false statistics she cited. I showed her the pornographic sex ed that IPPF taught to the children of her nation.

Costa Ricans, like all Latin , find it difficult to understand chastity. They often trace the problem to the freewheeling Spanish invaders who abused many local women. Chastity, knowledgeable locals told me again and again, means celibacy, as if there were no chastity in married life. We emphasized again and again that if there's no chastity before marriage, there'll be none after. People were shocked by our abortion films, pictures and posters, all of which they'll use well against their mortal enemy.

Barbara spoke to 5,000 Catholic high school girls, who gave her a standing ovation. She also did several radio interviews. I appeared on TV once and did three programs for the national Catholic radio. Most gratifying was the large number of nuns attending. Fewer than 10 priests came; low priestly turnouts are typical worldwide.

We couldn't have come at a more opportune time: the battle over sex "education" is raging. I'm afraid the bishops don't understand the dangers of sex ed in the schools, where contracepting/sterilized teachers are often in charge and where the immoral ideas of AD-PP have already been implemented. There are some Catholic grade schools and high schools, but most Costa Rican children go to public schools. By law, two hours of religion must be taught; an Institute of Religion trains the teachers.

I saw AD-PP's proposed books on sex "education." Their content is subtly satanic. Because AD-PP faces little resistance, it's much bolder and takes advantage of the local situation, brazenly spreading its lies. At least one high school gives condoms to the students. Thanks to AD-PP, condoms are sold at subsidized prices in grocery and liquor stores, gas stations— everywhere. Radical feminists are coming on strong, and meet little resistance. ADEVI-HLI has shown "The Silent Scream" some 250 times, though.

KILLERS FLOUT THE LAW I never did have my planned meeting with an active Protestant pro-life organization which has enthused over contraception as a remedy for abortion. The push is on to legalize abortion in cases of rape and incest; the current law allows abortion only to save the mother's life. No one will guess the number of abortions, but there are many, 99% of them being committed in doctors' offices, pro-life doctors assured me. One ex-abortionist admitted to us that he was making $5,000 a week as a sideline. Any doctor can receive, free of charge, the latest suction equipment to commit early abortions. Most likely, the baby-killing tools come from North Carolina's International Projects Assistance Service, but who pays for them?

Many of the killer doctors were trained in the USA to sterilize people and kill babies. They came home to practice on Costa Rican babies and, when they became expert, their country became a training center for Latin America, financed by U.S. money. Today the birthrate has fallen to 3.1 children per family. Although Costa Rica has the fewest slum dwellers of any country in Latin America and the best division of wealth, almost one-third of the families have only one parent.

Our efforts brought us invitations from a diocese in Panama and from nuns in Nicaragua to repeat the seminar; we continue to be overwhelmed with requests for help from all over the world. By the way, because we publish in three languages— English, French and Spanish— HLI is being quoted and reprinted worldwide. You make all of this possible.

P.P. & REDS VS. COLOMBIA In October, 1990 HLI sponsored a weekend pro-life seminar in Colombia's largest city, Bogotá. In Special Report No. 76 I gave you a picture of this resource-rich but very undeveloped and violent country of 30 million people, and of her

-4- Church. This September I spent eight days in Colombia for another HLI seminar in Medellin, the country's second-largest city and the world's drug capital.

The only Latin American country to honor Columbus by name is plagued with poverty, high unemployment, hundreds of thousands of street children (many the offspring of prostitutes), violence of every kind (including frequent kidnappings), a shortage of clergy and religious and many other problems.

A recent report of the World Bank maintains that 13 million people out of 30 million live in utter poverty, deprived of education, health care, housing and public services. The country needs a large army to control the many leftist guerrilla groups that inflict enormous damage on the country's productivity and order. (The army dispatched 60,000 troops across the country to make possible a recent national election. You see soldiers and police everywhere. For $10 you can have someone murdered (it costs much more to have a policeman "hit"). Colombians joke that there are two ways to lose your money: getting robbed on the street or taking a taxi.

While I was there, rebels dynamited the oil pipelines, spilling 19,000 barrels of raw petroleum. Such attacks have spewed 35 million gallons of crude into rivers and jungles, three times the amount spilled in the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska.

Every week since 1986, the National Liberation Army has bombed the Catatombo River, one of scores of riverways, marshes, lakes and forests polluted by Red attacks on the country's main oil pipeline, the 500-mile long Cano-Limon. Millions of impoverished peasants are caught in a bloody, 35-year-old war pitting government soldiers against the guerrillas.

In Medellin alone, 50 people are killed every night. From 6:30 p.m. on Friday to 7:30 a.m. on Saturday when I was there, 100 were killed. A took me to a morgue, where I saw 27 victims, post-autopsy. One died of natural causes; four died in car accidents; a man brought in a dead, three-month-old baby girl; six were killed with knives and 16 with guns. Most of the victims were innocent. When I asked the pastor of a parish of 45,000 how he handles all the funerals, he replied, "Well, people are often not buried; they just disappear."

God blessed Colombia with enormous water resources, no change of seasons (and therefore 365 days of crop production), varied terrain and coastlines on both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Virtually everything grows in this beautiful country, which is as big as Texas and New Mexico combined. Coffee is the chief export, followed by bananas, other fruits and flowers, of which Colombia is one of the world's chief exporters.

A CITY IN THE SKY Because of her flowers and pleasant weather, beautiful Medellin is known as the "City of Eternal Spring." She's also known as the drug capital of the world, a reputation this city of three million people high in the Andes is trying to change. The province of Antioquia, where Medellin is, is the richest and also the most religious, producing the most priestly and religious vocations. However, the archdiocese has only 450 secular priests and 250 religious priests. The cathedral is the seventh largest in the world, containing 1.2 million large bricks. Many seminaries grace the area, including that of a Colombian foreign mission society that has 150 seminarians, as well as 2,000 priests working in 10 countries.

PP, known as "Pro Familia" (!), has been more successful in Colombia, perhaps, than in any other Latin American country. Its anti-baby programs have so reduced the birthrate and the population that in 1989 the U.N. Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) gave it a special award. The bishops protested, but to no avail. The many abortions and sterilizations are committed not in hospitals and so-called clinics but

-5- (please turn) in numerous "houses" owned by PP.

Seven years ago, through the national Health and Education Departments, Pro Familia (typically) invaded the schools with its horribly graphic sex ed. They freely give students abortifacient Pills, often with little instruction; condoms are so easy to get that they're not given out in the schools. They're promoted there, however, and also on TV, with the slogan, "If you love your girl, use a condom." The many slum dwellers are showered with free Pills and condoms. The poor can buy a cycle of Pills from many sources at the subsidized price of 10 cents.

Obviously, the aim is to get young people to start fornicating; the more fornication, the greater the damage to family life and the lower the birthrate. As a result, Latin America today is in a strange situation: there are many teens but comparatively few small children. In the future there'll be many old people and not enough workers to support them— thanks to "Planned Hell."

Poor couples still average four children, but middle and upper class couples have barely two. The most common means of birth control for the latter groups are sterilization, the Pill, the IUD and the condom, in that order. Estimates of illegal abortions run between 400,000 and 500,000. Last July the nation adopted a new constitution that condemned divorce and proclaimed the unborn child protected, but later slipped in that a woman has the right to control her own body. This opens the way to legal abortion in the future.

PROBLEMS IN THE CHURCH Hours of conversation with 10 wonderfully Catholic women who teach NFP and do other archdiocesan family/welfare work truly proved to be a revelation. Colombian NFP began 15 years ago and is quite sophisticated, but only about 5,000 couples practice it in the archdiocese. The ladies said priests often say NFP "doesn't work," but the clergy haven't worked to learn it. Priests rarely preach on contraception, sterilization or abortion; some dismiss baby-killing as inevitable or a necessity.

The women confirmed what I've often sensed when in Latin America: the clergy and religious aren't trained to handle the gigantic onslaught of sexual sins encouraged by the ubiquitous PP and fueled by millions of dollars from wealthy countries (especially the USA and England).

My contacts decried the immorality of Catholic teachers. They said upper class Catholic mothers often provide their teen daughters with Pills. They insisted that some girls as young as nine have intercourse, and the grim joke was that "the only in Latin America is the Blessed Virgin." They told me that rampant primiscuity and VD are rather recent phenomena, arriving with Pro Familia, condoms and the Pill.

Being on the front lines, these women knew the problems: too few priests and religious; the evil media, which extol and advertise sterilization, condoms and the Pill; and advertisements featuring naked women. Again and again, they emphasized how vicious the moral environment was, how hard it was for young people to be virtuous, how little the truth is known and taught and learned, and what masterful and Satanic deceptions abound. Meanwhile, cable TV is slithering through the country, bringing pornography into home and school.

PRO-LIFERS BATTLE BACK Marriage preparation courses are poor, but caretaker auxiliary Bp. Carlos Prada San Miguel assured me the Archdiocese of Medellin is trying to build a total marriage prep course, no small task in a country and city where immorality is king. The Archdiocese has little money or equipment for this gigantic task; it has virtually no pro-life literature, films, audiotapes or videocassettes. Meanwhile, the sects are making serious inroads, as they are in all of Latin America— in fact,

-6- throughout the developing world.

The archbishop's seat is now vacant. Last January the appointed the energetic, 48-year-old Alfonso Cardinal Lopez Trujillo as President of the Pontifical Council for the Family in Rome. Once President of the Colombian bishops' conference, Cdl. Lopez Trujillo was an articulate foe of liberation theology. In 11 years he reportedly built 120 parishes.

The rector of Medellin's major seminary, which has 140 major seminarians, told me liberation theology is only a theme in a strictly orthodox theological course. But I found not a bit of pro-life literature in the library; I assured them that Magaly Llaguno of our Miami office would ship them all they need (provided by you).

By shipping the best pro-life materials to the seminaries of the developing world, where there are so many vocations, we're defending God's babies and families at the very nerve center, because future priests desperately need to know how to promote family life, to prepare young people for holy marriages, to foster chastity and to resist the incredible onslaught of anti-baby forces such as PP and its many international cohorts, which include the entire U.N. and, not least, contraception-pushing UNICEF.

Attending the seminar in Medellin were 200 leaders, including a dozen priests and 40 religious. We had to turn away more than 20 people for lack of space. Listeners were shocked by my description of the worldwide anti-life/family mess. I left them a clear picture of what they needed to do to save their country, which is still the healthiest one spiritually in Latin America, considering the many vocations and seminaries, among other things. Next year we'll hold a similar seminar in Cali. Please pray for Colombia!

COLOMBIANS NEED PRO-LIFE ARSENALS I promised the rector of the major seminary in Medellin a complete Spanish-language pro-life library, including the best pro-life films ($300 each), videocassettes ($25 each) and a film projector ($800). Could you send the cost of one video ($25) as your Christmas present to the future priests of Colombia?

I promised the 10 wonderful ladies who work gratis for family life in Medellin a complete arsenal of literature, audiocassettes, videocassettes, films and projectors. We'll include multiple copies of our bimonthly newsletter, Escoge la Vida. All of this will cost at least $8,000. Can you give one percent— $80? Half of” that— $40?

WORLD CONFERENCE SCHOLARSHIP NEEDED We also want to bring at least one of these great, apostolic ladies to our World Conference in Ottawa, 29 April-3 May 1992, to connect her with our global network. This will cost about $2,500, including tuition, hotel, air fare, meals and as much pro-life/family material as she can carry back. Every dollar you send will help her save more babies, souls and marriages when she goes home.

PRO-LIFE BISHOP COUNTING ON US And then I promised the acting Bishop, Carlos Prada, that HLI would equip his little pro-life effort with all he needs— and he needs much! I estimate the cost to be at least $5,000. Also, he'd like to send an influential priest to the Conference, and we'll have to pick up the tab ($1,500). Can you send $30? $50? $100? You'll help save his country's future.

Christmas is giving time, because it reminds us of the greatest Gift the world has ever received, the Son of God Himself in the lovely helplessness of infancy. Jesus was born in a very pagan time, like ours, with much fornication, contraception and abortion.

A beautiful way to bring Jesus to our world is to help save babies from abortion

-7- (please turn) and adults from the sins that lead to abortion. Please be generous to HLI's work during this season of giving. We have so much to show gratitude for, including life itself !

On All Souls Day I offered the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for all of HLI's deceased supporters. On Christmas Day I shall offer all three of my Masses for you and those like you who make possible the missionary work of Human Life International. May your Christmas be filled with peace and joy, dearest friend!

Gratefully yours in the Infant Jesus,

Rev. Paul Marx, OSB

P .S. I have a gift for you that took 50 years to create: Human Ecology— A Physician1s Advice for Human Life, by child health expert Robert Jackson, MD.

Dr. Jackson, one of our best World Conference speakers, has put his 50 years of Catholic medical and marital experience into a priceless guide for marriage preparation, pregnancy, birthing, breast-feeding, NCR (Natural Conception Regulation), nutrition, family problems and child-rearing. If the last two generations had followed the wisdom in this treasure-house of a book, we could have prevented most of the problems afflicting children, families and society today.

You'll learn why the decline in breast-feeding helped lead to the contraceptive era; how breast-feeding aids child-spacing; 14 reasons why "breast is best" for baby and parents; five elements of successful breast-feeding; when to use artificial feeding; advantages of natural birthing; good and bad birthing techniques; bad advice doctors give to pregnant mothers; 13 advantages of natural fertility regulation; the history of the birth control movement; harmful effects of the Pill; why it's bad to mix natural and artificial birth control; Pope John Paul II's profound insights into Humanae Vitae; how modern families can cope; nine rules for family and maternal nutrition; advice for the health care professions; and much more.

You'll be fascinated by Dr. Jackson's description of how experts have damaged babies, mothers, couples, the family and society. The solution? Follow God's plan for natural sex, birth and family life. Modern science has proven that He was right all along.

This great new book is compact and easy to "digest." It'll be a lifelong blessing to any engaged or married couple, anyone aiming at marriage, any doctor or nurse, any pro-lifer, and any priest, minister or counselor. A marvelous gift, too!

It sells for $8.95, and I'll send it to you as my thank-you gift for your Christmas offering of $30 or more for HLI's work.

To make sure you receive your book, please use the Business Reply Envelope with the coded address label on the back; the code tells us which book or tape to send you. If you must use another envelope, please write "ECOLOGY" on the envelope. Thank you!