GOD’S LAW VS. CATECHISM
With respect to population control through government intervention, Vatican ll Council
(1962-1965) stated in its Document “The Church Today” (Gaudium et Spes), “[T]his Council
exhorts all to be aware against solutions contradicting the moral law”[5] [fifth commandment,
Exod. 20:13]. They failed to do this when they changed the fourth commandment of the moral
law (the seventh-day Sabbath).
[1]
Hector Macpherson, The Jesuits in History (Pricess Street, Edinburgh: MacNiven & Wallace, 1914), 36.
[2]
Hector Macpherson, The Jesuits in History, 43-59.
[3]
Edwin de Kock, Christ and Antichrist in Prophecy and History: From Nebuchadnezzar to Justinian (Edinburg, TX:
Diadone Enterpreses, 2001), 1: 221. The comparison of the two Decalogues is quoted from 219-220; cf. The Ten
Commandments in Traditional Catechical Formula in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (Liguori, MO; Liguori
Publications, 1994), 496-497.
[4]
Catechism, 1994, 496.
[5]
Vatican ll, 302
