Avid Maria Radio presents Christ is the answer with Father John Ricardo.

Knowing Jesus is the best gift that any person can receive.

That we've encountered him as the best thing that's happened in our lives.

And making him known by our word and deeds is our greatest joy.

Then join me and dig into the scriptures and the teachings of the church so that we can find

the life that Jesus has made us for.

The first recorded crime after the fall of Adam and Eve was the murder of Abel by his brother,

Kane.

The prohibition of murder was understood throughout the Old Testament.

The killing of an innocent person was forbidden.

Kane's punishment reveals the gravity of the sin.

The Fifth Commandment, You Shall Not Kill, deals not just with murder, but also abortion, fetal stem cell killing, euthanasia, capital punishment, war, and speech that causes others to fall into sin.

Here is Father John Ricardo.

Well, tonight we look at the Fifth Commandment, You Shall Not Kill, which I have subtitled both in life and death, we belong to the Lord or to God.

That's a quote from St. Paul.

I'm not going to go into detail necessarily in everything there, but just so that you have a small condensation of everything that the catechism lays out about the Fifth Amendment. In beginning, though, I want to do a couple of things. One is to say my regrets that this isn't a very applicable topic for us today, because we value life so highly that this is going to be rather abstract.

Just the other day, I don't know how many of you saw, but Planned Parenthood launched a campaign against

Pope Benedict the 16th to challenge him on his backward views on abortion.

Just yesterday in the Senate or in the House, President Bush's limit on embryonic stem cell research was resoundingly defeated.

238 to 194. It's rather resounding anyway. That's in today's paper. So now we're going to

potentially anyway create embryos for the purposes of stem cells. Just the other day, South

Korea announced that they have cloned a human embryo for the purpose of therapy.

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