Vatican official calls for more just relationship with animals

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Vatican official calls for more just relationship with animals

 

By John Thavis

Catholic News Service

 

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Human dominion over the natural world must not be taken as

an unqualified license to kill or inflict suffering on animals, a Vatican

official said.

 

The cramped and cruel methods used in the modern food industry, for example, may

cross the line of morally acceptable treatment of animals, the official said in

an article Dec. 7 in the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano.

 

The article, titled " For a More Just Relationship With Animals, " was written by

Marie Hendrickx, a longtime official of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the

Faith.

 

She said that in view of the growing popularity of animal rights movements, the

church needs to ask itself to what extent Christ's dictum, " Do to others

whatever you would have them do to you " can be applied to the animal world.

 

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