Posted on 11/17/2008 10:37:08 AM PST by Alex Murphy
The elections weigh heavily on the hearts of America's Catholic bishops who gathered in Baltimore last week for their annual meeting. Not only do the bishops remain conflicted about how to contend with pro-choice politicians -a topic on their agenda - but they are also conflicted with their own Catholic colleges and professors, who played a vital role in turning the Catholic vote to Barack Obama.
Despite the Catholic bishops' clear disapproval of Mr. Obama's support for abortion rights - including his pledge to sign the Freedom of Choice Act - which would nullify state restrictions on abortions - many Catholics were persuaded that they could vote for Mr. Obama in good conscience. Exit polls show that he won over self-described Catholics 54 percent to 45 percent, better than the 52-46 split among all Americans. He even made inroads with Mass-attending and white, non-Hispanic Catholics.
For that, Mr. Obama has liberal Catholic professors and Catholic colleges to thank. It was Catholic academics who made the argument for Mr. Obama in the media and in lectures to Catholic audiences. Vocal Obama supporters include Pepperdine law professor Douglas Kmiec, a former dean of the Catholic University of America law school; Boston College theology professor Lisa Sowle Cahill; Duquesne law professor Nicholas Cafardi (former dean of Duquesne's law school); Notre Dame theology professor Cathleen Kaveny; and a St. Peter's College humanities professor, Jesuit Rev. Raymond Schroth.
The argument: that Mr. Obama will do more than John McCain to reduce abortions by fighting poverty, reforming health care and otherwise helping Americans in need. Mr. Cafardi has gone so far as to claim that "we have lost the abortion battle, permanently" and therefore Catholics should not be swayed by Mr. McCain's opposition to Roe v. Wade.
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Douglas Kmiec has also stated "that the legal fight against abortion is lost".
Sounds like the schools need a major cleanup before 2012.
Exit polls.
LOL
Vicious anti-Catholic fetishism proceeds apace.
It is no surprise that big name Catholic Universities are pro-big government above all other considerations. Just a review of who are acceptable campus guest speakers, especially commencement speakers, illustrates that the faculty ideology is just as Left as any other university in the USA.
The idea that helping the poor by keeping abortion readily available is widespread among many Catholic ‘helping’ agencies.
Now ... it's quite clear that the democRat Party is the Party of Death. Voting for them is unacceptable. It would appear that some people, at least, want the Republican Party to still be the Party of Religious Hate. They apparently don't want our votes; I suggest we (Catholics) should take them elsewhere. Comments?
Conflict? Why should there be conflict? It is really very straight forward. A Catholic or any other Christian should never, under any circumstances, vote for a candidate promising abortion and even infanticide.
If these bishops are "conflicted" it is because their consciences are trying to reconcile their sinful behavior with God's truth.
As for their CINO colleges and professors they should be renounced and completely disassociated from the Catholic or any other Christian church. If the bishops are "conflicted" about this, it is because they are wedded to sin.
Of course, I'm pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, pro-female Priests, pro-married Priests, I don't take The Host, don't believe in Papal Primacy, and don't go to Mass either.
Oh, and I think the whole "Jesus" thing is a myth.
But I participated in the exit poll.
Owl_Eagle
“When the stock market crashed,
Franklin Roosevelt got on the television
and didn’t just talk about
the princes of greed, he said,
‘Look, here’s what happened.’"
-Slow Joe Biden
Any believing Catholic who sends a child to my alma mater, Villanova University, is NUTZ in my opinion. If you do not believe this, please do a Google on the words: Villanova University, Vagina Monologues, and Michele Obama.
If the Catholic Church is ever turned around, it will be by the many God-fearing conservative Catholics who practice **ALL** of their religion.I wish we had a nation full to the brim with them. These will be the people who will prod and push their Jello-like bishops into doing what is right. Hopefully, it will be their sons who in the next generation will reform their corrupted seminaries.
The above in post #9 should have been italicized.
Loyala in Baltimore is my Alma Mater, and every year when someone phones for donations, I tell them I am embarrassed by their dormitory codes of conduct, and by their roster of guest speakers, and cannot in good conscience contribute to what I see as gross moral failings in the protection of our youth.
My father, uncles and numerous cousins all went there. The Jesuits are still just Liberation Theologists. They refuse to acknowledge that a country that will not protect the Most Innocent of all, the pre-born, has no future.
Oops, I meant to type Loyola.
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