[C. Edmund Wright]

Sal, what say you?

[pgkdan]

GOP...tell them to get stuffed and mind their own damned business!

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Are they asking Democrats to heed the words of the pope regarding abortion? Since 44 million babies have been put to death since 1973, this seems to be a more grave and obvious problem.

Yes, I know that the bishops do great pro-life work, but when have they ever publicly confronted Democrap politicians?

[BerniesFriend]

uhhh...they gay mafia is about to open a full frontal assault on your church...and you worry about this garbage?????

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Catholics need to impeach their Pope.

[Cowboy Bob]

Now they speak up...

Where were they when homosexual priests were raping young boys?

Screw 'em

[jjotto]

Iowa airwaves are being flooded with ‘Pope or Kochs’ ads from Citizens United.

[justa-hairyape]

This is all you need to know.

OPEN LETTER To the Academicians of The Pontifical Academy of Sciences

[MrEdd]

You know, because a denomination which has just about lockstep voted for the Democrats since the Kennedy presidency will switch to voting Republican if they drink the socialist kool-aid.

Or something.

[Vigilanteman]

Sure, once you guys start practicing what you profess to believe. The best antipoverty program ever invented is . . . capitalism. If tempered with moral teaching and principals, it can be a powerful force for good.

But too many of you are too busy excusing pro-abortion socialist politicians who are allowed to wear the Catholic fig leaf, that you can't see you are hamstringing your own church, much less Christianity in general.

You call yourself leaders, but if global warming was really real, don't you think it would do a lot more good to find wholly or nearly uninhabited areas to divert rising sea levels (there are a lot of them), raise seawalls and other protections near inhabited coastal areas and do something other than silly carbon trading schemes and giving more money and power to self-appointed experts and tyrants?

Your blatant hypocrisy is also on display when you address only the weakest and most impotent of America's two major political parties.

[mulligan]

Stupid follows stupid

[Hugin]

F the commie pope.

[pleasenotcalifornia]

The Catholic bishops should have worked this hard on abortion. It is difficult for me as a Catholic to have much respect for them.

[Alex Murphy]

"These are going to be difficult decisions that have to be made," said the Rev. Bud Grant of Davenport, joined at a news conference by bishops from central and eastern Iowa. "Politicians have to have the courage to do the right thing, and not necessarily the politically expedient thing." The push from bishops threatens to disrupt the historically reliable alliance of evangelical Christians and conservative Roman Catholic voters, putting pressure on Republicans who have leaned on their religious faith to guide them on social issues. It will also focus attention on how the six Roman Catholics seeking the 2016 Republican presidential nomination will wrestle with a pope's teachings on economics and climate change that clash with traditional Republican ideology. Bishops beyond politically important Iowa plan to do so as well. Church leaders in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Richmond, Virginia, plan events related to the encyclical in August, according to the Catholic Climate Covenant, which works with American bishops on the environment....In Florida, Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski is planning sermons and events to amplify the pope's call for action to curb global warming....

PFL

[HarleyLady27]

...the Pope needs to stick his nose in ‘Church’ business and keep his nose out of ‘State’ business....

[Red in Blue PA]

Trade in your Popemobile for a bicycle.

Lead by example.

If you don't you are simply another hypocrite.

[icwhatudo]

Why not put pressue on GOP to to heed Church on Pro-life and Man/Woman Marriage issues?

[afraidfortherepublic]

What about gay marriage? God takes care of the climate, and the poor we shall always have, according to Jesus. It seems to me that theonly thing the GOP could do would be to save the populace from sin.

[kenmcg]

“U.S. Catholic bishops have publicly asked those seeking the White House to heed the admonitions of Francis’ June encyclical”

Those seeking the presidency should strike a blow for democracy and tell the Pope to shove his encyclical where the sun don’t shine.

[jch10]

And the rest of the world would be where if not for America??? The Vatican and the Pope need better educations.