Posted on 11/13/2017 5:16:44 PM PST by marshmallow
One of the most closely watched elections during the upcoming fall assembly for the U.S. bishops will be over the head of the pro-life committee. Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City is up against Cardinal Blase Cupich to replace outgoing chairman Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York. The election is viewed by many as a referendum on both the conference's approach to pro-life policies and Pope Francis.
NEW YORK - When the U.S. bishops meet in Baltimore this week, one of the most closely-watched elections will be for the head of the pro-life committee, as its outcome likely will be viewed as a bellwether for the direction of the conference as a whole.
Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago will be up against Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, a contrast in both style and substance as to how the Church engages on the pro-life front in the era of Pope Francis and President Donald Trump.
Cupich is largely representative of the consistent ethic of life caucus within the conference, which attempts to connect the dots between debates over abortion, capital punishment, euthanasia, and the range of issues that are typically categorized as life issues.
Such an approach traces its roots to Cardinal Joseph Bernardin who in the 1980s famously argued for a “seamless garment” of life. During the 1990s and 2000s, this view largely found itself as the minority view within the conference.
However, under Francis, it’s been making a comeback. Most notably, in his 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’, Francis argued for a philosophy that evidences how “everything is connected.”
Naumann, on the other hand, is from the mold of the more traditional pro-life school, with an elevated focus on the issue of abortion. This approach has largely been reflective of the conference’s broader engagement in pro-life political and cultural.......
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Satan at work.
The bishops need to vote Naumann.
“The bishops need to vote Naumann.”
Yes they do! And if you ever meet him personally ask him to explain why he has a diamond encrusted or embedded in the base of the chalice he uses in his personal chapel. A very nice family story.
They will vote cupich..Liberals always stick with liberals..I’m willing to bet most of the bishops are liberal...
I know of many who are very conservative. Don’t be too quick to judge.
If there were a sufficient number of pro-life bishops,the Catholic universities wouldn’t be promoting abortion and birth control...Cardinal Newman society did a study a number of years ago and found 151 out of 197 Catholic universities and colleges promoting abortion and/ or PLANNED PARENTHOOD.....Too many pro abortion Catholic universities,not enough pro-life bishops to set them on the correct path....
I was wrong..Naumann was chosen...The howls of pain and misery of pro liberal/ abortion Catholics is all over the internet...It was worth being wrong,just to hear their wailing and gnashing of teeth.......
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