Posted on 08/27/2014 6:54:47 PM PDT by marshmallow
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I confess that I don't know anything about Sensenbrenner's voting record - is he pro-life?
Congressman Sensenbrenner converts to Catholicism in Milwaukee with 3 Bishops present.
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NOW gave him a 13 rating (out of 100).
How is he on immigration & amnesty? What about taxation and other "growth of government" issues?
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“As the saying goes, there the Catholic Church, the giant mustard tree, and then everything else like wild mushrooms that sprout out from the ground and before long wither and die”.
Great description. I also like to say the Catholic Church is like the Pacific Ocean, with all the other Christian faiths little currents flowing in different directions.
Looks like I have a new friend! Hopefully I'll get invited over for barbeque.
It's like the world's largest fish toilet?
Convert Sensenbrenner joins Newt Gingrich, Congressman Walter Jones, Governor Sam Brownback, to name a few. All conservatives.
I am not aware of any democrat converts to Catholicism that use to be evangelicals. I’m sure there out there, but just not aware of any.
Tony Blair would be the equivalent of a Democrat.
As far as I am concerned, no Democrat can be or become a Catholic, for precisely the same reason no Communist or Nazi could be or become a Catholic.
Ted Kennedy was allowed a Catholic funeral because a Mafia priest was seen skulking around the Kennedy compound, satisfying the legal requirement of some semblance of the practice of the Faith. If I had heard Kennedy’s confession, a condition of absolution would have been a public statement expressing contrition for and renunciation of the wickedness he championed publicly for decades.
Some toady priest received Blair (nominally) into the Catholic Church without requiring him to renounce his pro-abortion position. And when his wife got pregnant at 40 or a little beyond, she let everyone know they were using birth control.
At William Brennan’s funeral, Fr. Milton Jordan of the Washington Archdiocese declared of the man who engineered Roe v. Wade, “Bill left the world a better place than he found it.”
Fr. Rutler coined a term for the religion of the Kennedys, Cuomos, Pelosis, Cardinal Wuerl, Cardinal McCarrick Cardinal O’Malley, Cardinal Dolan, etc.: “surreal Catholicism.”
The loudest ones, the ones on the various committees of the USCCB, know exactly what they are doing. The bishops' conference has always been an appendage of the Democrat party, and it has been Marxist and Alinskyite since at least the days of Bernardin. There are Catholics among the bishops, but they have done nothing to expose or thwart the Marxists.
“At William Brennan’s funeral, Fr. Milton Jordan of the Washington Archdiocese declared of the man who engineered Roe v. Wade, “Bill left the world a better place than he found it.”
Roe v. Wade passed by a 7-2 vote. Even if Brannan had not not voted, it would have still passed. The court was dominated by liberal protestants. The only two dissenting votes were JFK appointed Byron White (Episcopalian) and Nixon appointee William Rehnquist (Lutheran).
So I don’t really know what you mean by saying Brennan, who was a liberal (another wasted republican appointee), was the “engineer” of Roe v. Wade. I think Harry Blackmun, who wrote the opinion, was the architect. He never saw an abortion he didn’t like and wrote the opinion on Roe v. Wade.
The story as I have frequently heard it, and read at the time, is that Blackmun wrote the opinion in Roe v. Wade, but that he was kind of a dim bulb who didn’t entirely realize what he was doing. Many accounts have said that it was Brennan who egged him on and told him what to do, from behind the scenes. Or even that Brennan wrote most of it, but told Blackmun to take the credit.
Senselessbrenner
I like your metaphor even better
Whoever wrote the opinion makes no difference. The Supreme Court had 9 members, 8 of them being protestant. By a 7-2 count they gave the country abortion on demand. Catholics didn’t do it, protestants did.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/al-eisele/the-quite-man-who-wrote-r_b_812677.html
Brennan did not want to be the author of the decision because he was a Catholic, but he was the mastermind behind it. It was, of course, written by Blackmun.
Brennan was pro-abortion. That’s the bottom line. He was a monster—and therefore not a good Catholic.
Fr. Milton Jordan is all-too-typical of American clergy: He loves the Democrat party with all his mind, and all his soul, and all his strength, and the Catholic Church might be made to help the party in some way.
In '64 when I was 12 my mom wanted to sing in the choir of a Catholic church in Hialeah FL. Yet she had to attend instruction in the faith to do so, and I went with her.
The text was "Father Smith Instructs Jackson" which I still have. I seem to recall it going on for about ten weeks. After that time, converts were admitted in a special congregation wide mass.
Neither Mom nor I converted. But it sure was interesting.
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