Posted on 01/22/2015 11:46:03 AM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: ‘Glamorization of promiscuity’ must end before abortion can, Cardinal O’Malley tells 11,000 at March for Life vigil
Abortion will not end until the “glamorization of promiscuity” is reversed, Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley told an overflow crowd of over 11,000 pro-life pilgrims attending the National Prayer Vigil for Life at the Capitol’s Catholic Basilica Wednesday evening.
“People who favor legal abortion claim they want to reduce the number of abortions. One of the logical ways to reduce the number of abortions would be to discourage the promiscuous behavior that is rampant in our culture,” he said in his homily to the crowd consisting largely of young people.
“The glamorization of promiscuity needs to be reversed by having people speak out against it,” he said.
O’Malley said practicing chastity, which the Church speaks about as an integration of sexuality within the person that is applicable to every state of life, is a way to be pro-life by “protecting] the transmission of life.”
The annual Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, in which Cardinal O’Malley was principal celebrant and homilist, drew six cardinals, 44 bishops, 343 priests, 100 deacons, and 530 seminarians.
The cardinal mentioned abortion 31 times in his homily, referring to it as a “barbaric practice” that devastates the lives of women.
Unjust laws governing abortion must be changed, he said, but “we must work even harder to change hearts, to build a civilization of love.”
The cardinal said that politicians need to be “brought up to date” on data showing that a majority of Americans favor restrictions on abortion.
“Even a majority of so-called pro-choice Americans actually favor informed consent for mothers, abortion bans in the third trimester, bans on partial-birth abortions, required parental consent for minors, 24 hour waiting periods and even abortion bans in the second trimester. These are polls by Gallup, CBS, and the New York Times, not by EWTN, Catholic University and the Vatican,” he said.
There are many myths that are circulating and cause a lot of harm, especially since politicians often espouse them, Cardinal O’Malley said. He listed first the myth that abortion is a woman’s issue, second, that most Americans are “pro-choice,” and last, that young people are overwhelmingly in favor of the pro-abortion position.
“But you know there are some people who are using these American myths: that the majority of women, the majority of Americans, the majority of young people are pro-choice,” the cardinal said. “It is a lie that is being foisted on the American people to try to convince people to embrace abortion with the flag and apple pie.”
The cardinal mentioned in passing the necessity of “preserving the family as the sanctuary of life,” but mentioned nothing about current attacks facing the family, especially resulting from the state-by-state redefinition of marriage to include same-sex attracted persons.
He said that unmerited laws should be changed, but indicated that greater focus is needed on changing hearts.
“We must work tirelessly to change the unjust laws,” said Cardinal O’Malley. “But we must work even harder to change hearts, to build a civilization of love.”
It's really not about glamorization...it's about stupidity and "I don't care"...
True. A fornication society must have abortion.
uhhhh....if abortion weren’t allowed, maybe promiscuity wouldn’t seem all that glamorous.
January 22. The day each year when Catholic bishops give rip-roaring speeches in favor of chastity and against abortion.
January 23. The day they can go back to being photographed snuggling and cuddling and giving Communion to pro-abortion politicians.
Consequences are a deterrent. The reason so many laws fail is because so many get around the punishment. The fear and inconvenience of raising a child is the reason behind most deaths of the preborn, so why not use that fear and inconvenience as motivation to abstain for both sexes?
I forgot to lead in with “I agree.”
Uh oh, The Pope seems to be deviating from the script. I am sure his copy of Global Communism and Cultural Marxism for Puppets said nothing of the sort.
No, the promiscuity began before abortion was legal.
Cardinal Sean O’Malley is not the pope.
True. In the end, promiscuity is not about glamor but squalor.
I wonder how many homilies those ordained men have given altogether.
I wonder how many of those have been on the subject of chastity?
Honestly. I can’t believe that this man has the you-know-what to even show up at a pro-life vigil let alone speak at it.
At least not yet.
O’Malley’s shamelessness is no shock. What’s wrong with the folks who run the March for Life that they invite the pro-life movement’s WORST ENEMIES for these events. If you look back at the Vigil Mass for the last 42 years, you will find the worst back-stabbers of the pro-life movement preaching. IIRC, Bernardin was among them. Dolan, for sure. Wuerl.
Aack!
Cardinal O’Malley, just one more fraudulent US Bishop/Archbishop/Cardinal. You want a real Bishop who truly stood up for Catholicism, here are the words of the late great Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen:
“WHO IS GOING TO SAVE OUR CHURCH? NOT OUR BISHOPS, NOT OUR PRIESTS AND RELIGIOUS. IT IS UP TO THE PEOPLE. YOU HAVE THE MINDS, THE EYES, THE EARS TO SAVE THE CHURCH. YOUR MISSION IS TO SEE THAT YOUR PRIESTS ACT LIKE PRIESTS, YOUR BISHOPS, LIKE BISHOPS, AND YOUR RELIGIOUS ACT LIKE RELIGIOUS.”
True. Good point. And one that would not been lost on me if I had better reading comprehension. Or weren’t doing ten things at once. Or just didn’t have a big mouth. (:
We vote for our laws, why doesn’t he just make sure that Catholics switch to voting pro-life?
I think they could change the Catholic vote if they wanted to.
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