You CAN'T Be Catholic
and
Pro-Abortion!
Posted on 08/03/2011 11:24:55 AM PDT by rhema
Live Action President Lila Rose is leading a protest this coming Thursday, August 4, at Mercy Regional Medical Center in Durango, CO. The event, which will include a press conference, is intended to draw attention to the fact that Mercy Regional, a Catholic hospital, employs an abortionist on its staff.
Dr. Richard Grossman is a Quaker, an adherent of the Protestant Christian sect famous for its aversion to violence. He is 67-years-old, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, and spends his Fridays perpetrating abortions at the Durango Planned Parenthood.
It’s undeniably true that one does not have to be Catholic or even Christian to be pro-life. It is also equally true that one cannot be Catholic without being pro-life. To quote from the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
”Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law… Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life. A person who procures a completed abortion incurs excommunication latae sententiae, ‘by the very commission of the offense.’”
Abortion is different from other sins because of its gravity. It is the most final and audacious act — the taking of a human life — committed against the smallest, weakest, and most completely innocent of humans, the unborn child.
For this reason, the Church hands down the serious judgment of excommunication for anyone who willingly participates in abortion. You can disagree with the Church on a whole host — pun intended — of issues, and still remain in communion with the Catholic Church. But if you have an abortion, or take someone to have an abortion, or encourage someone to have an abortion, you’re persona non grata as far as Rome is concerned.
As long as they employ Dr. Grossman on their staff, Mercy Regional is grossly misaligned with Catholic teaching.
When a person is confirmed a Catholic, as I was in 2007, she agrees to adhere to the teaching of the Church. She submits to the authority of the Church as the body of Christ on earth. She professes faith in the Catholic Church as “holy.” And as far as the Church is concerned, there is no such thing as a “conscientious objector” when it comes to the issue of abortion. This is one issue — and maybe the only one — on which Rome allows no wiggle room in the belief of the faithful. You can walk around Catholic secretly believing in women priests, gay weddings, and free condoms for teenagers, but if you are walking around Catholic secretly — or not secretly — believing in “abortion rights,” you’ve got a deadly serious problem.
“The reason I perform abortions is because I’m a Christian,” Dr. Grossman has said in print. I haven’t read the doctor’s reasoning behind this statement, but I would imagine it’s short on reason. If there’s one thing almost all Christians are in pretty close agreement about, it’s that the murder of innocent children is wrong. Dr. Grossman then goes on to say that he believes the woman “empowers” the fetus, in other words, that the fetus is not a child until the woman says it is. This is such unscientific, nonsensical drivel it makes me wonder how on earth the man is qualified to wield a scalpel.
But no matter what Dr. Grossman thinks, feels, or believes, the fact remains that Mercy Regional is a Catholic hospital. It is therefore not just important but absolutely necessary that the hospital sever all ties to Dr. Grossman, or sever all ties to the Church.
The hospital’s website proclaims in its mission statement:
”We celebrate the value of each person’s life… In this manner, we strive to create healing sanctuaries that carry on the ministry of Jesus Christ.”
Well, Mercy Regional, step one in your “mission” of carrying on the ministry of Jesus is firing that guy who takes the day off every Friday to go kill babies.
By the way, Mercy’s website has a publicity section called “Mercy In the News,” but no mention is made of the ongoing controversy. I guess that’s not the kind of publicity they’re looking for, but it’s exactly the kind we need to give them. This hospital needs to be told, and loudly, that the pro-life and the Catholic faithful of this country will not abide the resources of a Catholic hospital being used by a murderer, nor will we stand for women seeking a healing sanctuary in a Catholic hospital encountering a man who wounds their bodies and souls and kills their children.
Dr. Grossman’s phone number at the hospital is 971-382-8800, and his fax number is 970-382-0122. The hospital’s main number is 970-247-4311. They will not enjoy hearing from you. Call them anyway. Be polite, but tell them you are pro-life and think the idea of the Catholic Church, the single most important, vocal, and stalwart pro-life force on the planet, allowing an abortionist to operate within one of its hospitals is unconscionable. Tell them that until they fire Dr. Grossman (who by the way could not be reached for comment) you will be using social media to spread the word that Mercy Regional cannot be trusted and should not be relied on for medical treatment of any kind. If you happen to live in Colorado and have 4,000 Facebook friends, make sure they know that.
Every time a “Catholic” organization endorses legislation that will endanger the lives of the unborn, help to uphold abortion “rights,” or place women in the path of more pro-abortion counseling and harmful birth control pills, I cringe. The pro-life movement has enough opposition to contend with from unrepentant pro-abortion radicals. We shouldn’t have to fight lukewarm, post-modernized “Catholics” as well, although we routinely do. It’s not enough to just call yourself Catholic, or call yourself pro-life, or both. If we believers in the rights of the unborn fail to loudly, unabashedly stand up for those rights, this movement is simply doomed.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn said, “Let evil come into the world, even dominate the world, but not through me.” Solzhenitsyn wrote from prison camps in which he was incarcerated by a ruthless, Godless, corrupt, and unjust government. We don’t have that kind of government in the United States — not yet. And we will not as long as the people keep a very close eye on our leaders. Apathy, though, can be our downfall, in our country and in our Church. To the Catholics reading this: It’s our Church. It belongs to the faithful, not the faithless. It belongs to the obedient, not those who pervert and stretch and ignore its teachings. In short, the Catholic Church is a pro-life Church, with no exceptions.
Refuse to participate in the kind of apathy that allows a hospital to call itself Catholic while ignoring the most important tenets of the faith. It’s the same kind of apathy that has let abortionists get away with murder.
Do what I just did: Call Mercy Regional and tell them what you think. Then post it to your Facebook. Link this article on your Wall. Tweet your head off. Whatever you need to do. But get the word out.
Because I want him to have something to read in between abortions, I just faxed Dr. Grossman a copy of this article. I hope he enjoys it.
Dr. Richard Grossman is a Quaker, an adherent of the Protestant Christian sect famous for its aversion to violence.
“The reason I perform abortions is because I’m a Christian,” Dr. Grossman has said in print.
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??? ...he thinks Jesus would approve?!?
and abortions are not “violence”?
Sun-Tzu says to win, you must understand your enemies.
but understanding Grossman, is beyond me...
But, but, but, a woman has the right to choose! //sarcasm off
As I’ve always told my kids, if you want to belong to the club you have to follow the rules. There are a lot of things I do not like about the church, but I get up every morning with the intent and desire to follow the rules. Because I believe that will bring me salvation. Because I made a promise before God that I would make that effort.
Your mileage may vary.
But you cannot, for a second, think that its OK to pick and choose which part of the rules you will follow. This is not a Chinese menu.
Something to keep in mind when you find yourself not liking the “rules” .... look what decades of changing or getting rid of a lot of those rules has done.
May God bless this group in their efforts to remove this “doctor” from the Mercy staff.
I beg to differ. You can be Catholic, Baptist, or of any other denomination and be “pro-choice”. There are millions of people who attend churches sporadically and consider themselves of that denomination. However, you cannot be a Christian and be pro-choice.
Ditto to that headline!
Exactly!
Are you saying being pro-choice is a requirement for salvation now?
HUH????
“However, you cannot be a Christian and be pro-choice.
Are you saying being pro-choice is a requirement for salvation now?”
Again, HUH???
As a Christian you should value life. The murder of an innocent child is still murder. As a Christian you should not support murder (if you don’t believe it is murder do a web search for 3rd term, partial birth abortions) but you should pray for the person who made that decision. That decision is between them and God and isn’t my business. Because it is a personal decision I don’t believe my tax dollars should support an act that has murdered millions of innocent children.
I'm Pro-Choice.
We should be free to choose whether to carry a pistol, or a revolver.
We should be free to choose among 9mm, .45 ACP, .357 Mag, or whatever else we might desire.
Black, blue, pink, camouflage, wood, plastic ... all free choices we have a right to make.
Yep, I'm pro choice ...
It was kind of a yes or no question.
Your point is non-sensical. You are essentially claiming a person cannot be Christian if they are Catholic or Baptist. I doubt that was your intention, but that is the logic of your statement.
Huh?
Not what I said at all. Perhaps I should have said that you cannot be pro-choice and follow Christ.
Satan is everywhere!
http://www.lifenews.com/2011/08/02/pro-life-physicians-group-to-defend-kansas-abortion-law/
Since you were Catholic can you explain self-excommunication? The RCIA process fails when prospective Catholics, Inquirers, are taught that they can wonder off the reservation at will. Other Catholics who are poorly catachized and are in the Church today are ignorant entirely of the Faith.
If your argument is going to be that you follow your conscience on human sacrifice, as abortion is, then the Church will properly tell you that you lack an informed conscience and you need to go inform it. Soon. You know better than to lend your self to arrogant bustardness on the barbary of human sacrifice. Some matters leave us without excuse. This is one of those.
John 6 was hard for followers of Jesus and many protested and left. The first protestants.
err.. Rita, AB was being sarcastic. He is very Catholic in his beliefs. He was pointing out that he’s pro-GUN-choice.
” err.. Rita, AB was being sarcastic. He is very Catholic in his beliefs. He was pointing out that he’s pro-GUN-choice.” <<<<
Oops, the dunce jumped out again. My apologies to all. Embarrassing to miss the point entirely and fire off a round that hits my sidekick.
i make the same goofs all the time. Welcome to the club Rita :)
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