Posted on 11/10/2008 8:19:20 AM PST by Publius804
Bishops will not skip debate on abortion and politics
What will really happen this week at the USCCB meeting
Baltimore, Nov 9, 2008 / 11:08 pm (CNA).- Since the election of Barack Obama as the next President of the United States, several Catholic commentators have speculated on how the original agenda of the annual Fall General Assembly of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) will change.
According to bishops involved in the organization of the three-day meeting, which starts this Monday, the agenda, including a public discussion of abortion and politics, is fully on track.
Speculation that the agenda might change came late last week when several prominent Catholic commentators argued that the bishops had "lost authority" by speaking out strongly against Catholics voting for pro-abortion politicians, like Sen. Barack Obama and other mostly Democratic candidates, who were elected to office last Tuesday.
On Friday, Religion News Service reported that the USCCB “has scuttled plans to discuss abortion and politics next week in Baltimore,” citing the bishops' spokeswoman, Sister Mary Ann Walsh. RNS also quoted Sister Walsh saying that the agenda had yet to be finalized.
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Cardinal George of Chicago has just given his opening address.
It is a testimony to the bishops’ good manners that the place didn’t explode in guffaws.
Here is a Cardinal held hostage by one of his own priests and parishes - Father Pfleger and Saint Sabina’s - giving the entire National Conference of Bishops a challenge to be true leaders?
What a pathetic charade.
Funny, our racist, extremist, liberal archbishop down here from Atlanta is scared not to /afraid of not making/proud to make EVERY statement he can praising Obama and illegal immigrants.
No, it wasn't a repudiation. It was the result of nearly four decades of mixed signals, timidity and fawning at politicians' feet from AmChurch. You reap what you sow. That won't be reversed with one month of intense anti-abortion rhetoric. The damage is by now systemic and deep-seated.
The correct response to the pro-Obama Catholic vote is not to throw in the towel and clam up. Quit the opposite. It's to roll up the sleeves and get to work to educate lapsed, indifferent and liberal Catholics.
“quit”=quite
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You are speaking of a man who is out there on the firing line despite the fact that he has cancer. Please apologize.
| Over 100 Bishops Have Spoken Out on Priority of Life Issues Posted on October 28, 2008, 11:59 AM | Deal W. Hudson |
And the one I like best: Bishops listed by state
On what firing line?
He slapped Pfleger on the wrist.
Pfleger is now back, louder than ever, a continuing scandal, contumaceously disobedient, and utterly defiant.
I am sorry Cardinal George has had cancer. If he cannot fulfill his episcopal responsibilities because of that, Canon 401 has a section 2 that anticipates that eventuality and provides for it.
I will not apologize for pointing out the truth.
And anyway, who the hell are you to instruct me to do so?
I am completely aware of the number of bishops who - to varying degrees - spoke out and saw this list elsewhere on FR.
I was commenting solely on Cardinal George’s apparent failure to exercise episcopal oversight in the case of Father Pfleger’s and Saint Sabina’s apparent embrace of a religion other than Roman Catholicism.
Listen to the audio of Pfleger’s “sermon” - while the rest of the Church was celebrating the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica and he was canonizing the Obama Family - and read Saint Sabina’s website.
See what conclusion you come to.
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