Posted on 10/23/2016 1:35:47 PM PDT by NYer
October 21, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – Once again a leading opponent of Catholic moral teachings, this time Hillary Clinton, has cited Pope Francis to give credibility to her actions. In a Fox news interview, Fr. Gerald Murray gives clear reasons why some of Clinton's remarks at the Al Smith dinner were highly inappropriate and that she should have used the event to publicly disown the anti-Catholic bigotry in her staff emails revealed by Wikileaks.
Fr. Murray said, "there should have been a statement" by Mrs. Clinton "right at the start" of her remarks at the Al Smith dinner, "saying, 'I disown everything that was read in those emails and I'm not going to try to defend them.'"
The prominent U.S. Catholic canon lawyer continued that he hoped Clinton would "turn around and say she cannot tolerate anti-Catholic bigotry in her campaign and at the same time as she last night quoted Pope Francis to defend her positions on ecology and the like. You can't have it both ways."
After the interviewer noted Fr. Murray "took offense that she evoked Pope Francis at the end," the Catholic priest responded,
"I got upset because the night before she defended partial-birth abortion and that this is just between a doctor and a woman. Wait a minute, what about the baby? Pope Francis defends the right to life...Don't try and pretend the pope is endorsing her in some way by quoting him selectively. It's not good. Partial-birth abortion is a horrendous crime. It should end...Her defense of it two nights ago really upset me, because we're talking about babies here."
This improper citing of the current pope has become an unprecedented, on-going epidemic throughout the world, both within the Church by numerous moral dissidents and outside the Church by leading enemies of authentic Christian moral teachings, such as Elton John, UN leaders, Barack Obama and hundreds, if not thousands, more.
Thank God for faithful, straight-talking priests such as Fr. Murray who is a regular on EWTN, as well as on other media. This courageous canon lawyer consistently proclaims what ALL authentic Christian clergy should be proclaiming at this dangerous time in history.
Although it is thankfully finally beginning to change, the vast majority of priests, and especially bishops and cardinals, have seemed to be in hiding, hoping that their negligence will somehow not be noticed.
Clinton, and many other political and other leaders assaulting life, family and faith, must be strongly called out by Church leaders, as Fr. Murray and a growing number of other clergy are now doing.
The laity must demand that all clergy speak out NOW, provide desperately needed moral leadership and endure the criticsms from the world that will result. That was the example that Jesus Christ gave of what he expects of them. This is especially true at this time when we are likely facing imminent, great persecution for their having been silent, and even complicit in many cases during the past decades of decline in the practice and belief of faith and resulting cultural collapse.
Fr. Murray has appeared as a commentator on religious topics on various television and radio outlets, including EWTN, EWTN Spanish, Fox News, Fox Business News, MSNBC, NY1, Radio Maria, Relevant Radio, Fox News Radio and the Voice of America. He is fluent in French, Spanish and Italian, and has a working knowledge of Portuguese. He served in US Naval Reserve Chaplain Corps from 1994 to 2005.
Video at link. Catholic ping!
If she had claimed that she disowned everything that her campaign said about Catholics, she would have been lying again. Good grief, didn’t the hierarchy listen to her opening statement the night of the 3rd debate? That statement, alone, should have gotten her scrubbed from the guest list, even if they haven’t paid attention to her record in the past.
The Al Smith dinner always invites the 2 candidates, every 4 years. Cardinal Dolan did ask for a retraction but later said that such a statement would not be appropriate at the dinner. So far, she has retracted nothing. The "happy clappy, back slapping" Dolan will never change his style. He is uncomfortable in serious situations. During the last conclave, I watched him enter the Sistine Chapel. He was decidedly uncomfortable at the pomp and seriousness; it was evident from the expression on his face.
I distinctly remember Hillary saying, after visiting Mother Theresa, that MT WANTS women to have an abortion.
Can it get any more absurd?
What probably happened is HC asked MT what happens to the souls of the aborted babies, and the answer was they go to Heaven. In HRC’s mind, since MT wants everyone to go to Heaven and aborted babies go to Heaven, therefore she wants abortion.
Is he equally upset that the Bishops and College of Cardinals is so corrupt and heretical that this dull-normal heretic could ever become a Bishop much less the Pope?
He's uncomfortable wherever a Catholic rather than his fellow CINOs might confront him, that's the bottom line.
Father Gerald Murray is a courageous man who is not afraid to go after even the Pope when he disagrees with him, as can be seen in these earlier two examples, where he appeared on multiple episodes of "The World Over" show on EWTN, and openly expressed his strong disagreement with Pope Francis on several current key issues.
We need more priests like Father Gerald Murray.
World Over - 2016-06-23 – Pope Francis on marriage-Fr Gerald Murray, Robert Royal w/ Raymond ArroyoWorld Over - 2016-09-15 – Pope Francis, Communion for Remarried Divorcees with Raymond Arroyo
Thanks for the links and info.
They don’t ALWAYS invite the 2 candidates. Exceptions I’m told are the 2 elections when Clinton ran because of his pro-abortion stance, and when Kerry and Bush ran because of Kerry’s stance.
I stand by my statement that her strong statements at the debate favoring “abortion at 9 months” should have gotten her cancelled. Did you watch the third debate?
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