Posted on 07/25/2004 1:46:16 PM PDT by quidnunc
Catholics are used to having people protest outside their churches. Because Catholics are one of the last socially acceptable objects of bigotry, it seems as though activist groups are always showing up at their churches. Gay and women's rights groups make up the usual crowd, although these days it's common to find hecklers there to beat up on Catholics for the priest sex-abuse scandals. However, today may mark the first time a Catholic church has been picketed by anti-abortion protestors.
Dozens of such protestors were gathered on Park Street in front of the Paulist Center an hour before Sunday's 10:00 a.m. Mass. They strummed guitars, sang hymns, drew slogans on the sidewalk in chalk, and carried placards saying "Stop Killing My Generation" and "You CAN'T be Catholic & Pro-Abortion." Some of the protestors hailed from Operation Rescue, other were from the American Life League. All of them were respectful and cheery as they stood in the morning sunshine, down the block from the Massachusetts statehouse.
The reason for their protest is that the Paulist Center is John Kerry's home church.
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Good article. Worth reading the whole thing.
But it raises an important question: Why does the Catholic Church allow this church to call itself Catholic?
Money.
Arch Bishop O'Malley needs to withdraw his permission for them to hold Mass that is open to the public.
End of story.
Well, if the worst comes to worst, kerry could always institute his own private palace chapel. It is an ancient tradition.
Wow.
That is a very good question, and I don't know the answer, only to say that one church I used to belong to was an ofshoot of the Seventh-Day Adventists, and it was called the Church of God Seventh Day. They had a lot of little ofshoot churches, one of whom still called themselves Church of God Seventh Day, but they had their own little community, pretty self-contained and self-sustained. I suspect many churches also have this.
This so totally fits John Kerry, though, belonging to such a church. He IS Catholic, but yet he ISN'T, and he SUPPORTED the war in Iraq before he DIDN'T, and on and on.
Towards the end of Mass on Sunday, Father John Ardis (who will be giving the consecration at the Democratic convention on Thursday) made an announcement about the anti-abortion protestors on his front steps. Defiantly, he read the Center's Mission Statement. The parishioners burst into applause.I wondered who the Dems had gotten to bless their unholy gathering. I'm surprised it isn't at least an archbishop.Which explains why John Kerry feels so comfortable at the Paulist Center. His fellow parishioners aren't gritting their teeth and looking away while he fights for abortion and defies the Catholic Church. They're cheering him on.
Kerry staunchly resists restrictions on abortions. (Apr 27)
Partial-birth abortion ban undermine women's right to choose. (Nov 2003)
No criminalization of a woman's right to choose. (Jun 2003)
Voted NO on criminal penalty for harming unborn fetus during other crime. (Mar 25)
Voted NO on maintaining ban on Military Base Abortions. (Jun 2000)
Voted NO on banning partial birth abortions. (Oct 1999)
Voted NO on disallowing overseas military abortions. (May 1999)
If you are looking for this church to provide a moral center for the faithful, forget it. It is much more into moral relativism, situational ethics, goody-goody feelings, etc. No wonder the church bulletin is filled with ads from psychotherapists including "Jungian psychoanalysts" who offer counseling, "body psychotherapy," and even "dream interpretation."
I wish this were distributed far and wide, so that all those Catholics who think Kerry is faithful have an idea of how far he has strayed. They don't even say the Nicene Creed the approved way, for Pete's sake! Does it still really count as Mass? It sounds far enough from the real thing that they might rather consider themselves ecumenical vs. Catholic. It's no wonder Kerry takes his faith teachings so lightly!
It's sad that the Paulists have succumbed to Leftism. I have such a fond attachment to their bookstores.
I bet that when Teddy goes to the great gin mill in the sky at least an archbishop if not a cardinal will do the honors of burying him.
I think O'Reilly is right. It will take several generations, and not in our lifetime, for the Catholic Church to recover from all the scandals. As far as I am concerned, both Kerry and Kennedy are creating scandal within the Catholic Church. It sounds like the place Kerry goes to is a sect. He is an embarrassment. the Catholic Church needs to deal with him once and for all. Kerry's church does sound like a Unitarian Church.
At times the Mass departs from the Catholic text. During the Nicene Creed, for example, the sections on believing in only "one Lord" ("We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God . . .") and only "one holy Catholic and apostolic Church" are excised from the prayer.
Right. Obviously, the Paulists take seriously the obligation of obedience to duly constituted eccliastical authority -- NOT!
Why do you think the archdiocese gets any money from the Paulists?
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