Posted on 09/01/2004 9:04:41 AM PDT by Willie Green
As Democrats and Republicans work hard to woo Catholic voters for the presidential election, Greensburg Bishop Lawrence E. Brandt is warning his flock to be wary of their "intellectual sleight of hand."
Months after other bishops in the United States announced they would withhold communion from elected officials who support abortion, Brandt spelled out the church's teachings -- and the Greensburg diocese's position -- in a pastoral letter last week to its 188,000 faithful.
The timing of the release of the letter -- one week before the Republican National Convention -- was coincidental, said Angela Burrows, executive director of infomedia services at the diocese.
Brandt would not comment on the letter, deferring questions to Burrows.
The bishop, who was ordained and installed in March, wrote that any public official who says, "I can vote for abortion and still be a Catholic in good standing," is being intellectually condescending to every Catholic by making himself or herself the sole judge of what "Catholic" means.
That "intellectual sleight of hand" is demeaning to the intelligence of any informed Catholic, he said
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Well, a lot of Catholics still support sKerry. Just like a lot of Black Fundamentalist Christians who would vote for the devil if he was on the Dim-o-rat ticket.
Correction, a lot of CINOs support Kerry.
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