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Ping to you.
"But at least one member of the congregation dislikes being told how to vote"
So let's spend a third of the article quoting this one person.
*Unless she repents, Frances will have eternity to chat with Satan about her interpretations of the First Ammendment
The Church is clear: Voting for a pro-choice candidate is cooperation with evil. If that's not a mortal sin...
No, this is wrong. Sounds like it should read "A lifelong cafeteria Catholic"...
I see a good man in our president. Kerry is the epitome of everything I don't like. I have been taught by this very same faith to always confront evil, to stand up as a man. Consider the decline in morality of the faithful, even to the point of what people wear to Mass. When our president went to visit the pope, this good Catholic boy was wondering if Bush shouldn't be scolding the pope about not fighting evil not the other way around.
""There are five pre-eminent issues -- abortion, euthanasia, fetal stem-cell research, human cloning and so-called homosexual marriage,"
This isn't political. This is doctrine. To disagree is to disagree with eternity.
As I've said before, if you refuse to live by the teachings, why are you still there?
More minnions for my furnace!
"Will Work for Food"
"Will Kill for Sex"
It is good not to read any nonsense about the death penalty, especially since the Vatican had one through 1969.
Realistically, what does the president have to do with abortion being legal or not? No matter who is elected, it won't go away.
In his Gospel of Life (1995) the Pope described church teaching on abortion as an infallible part of our tradition. He also reiterated the Catholic moral teaching on formal and material cooperation in evil actions. The first is always wrong; the second is not. If politicians, for example, vote for a bill favoring abortion with the intent of taking innocent life, they would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil. If they do so for some other grave reason (?!!), they would not be guilty of this formal and forbidden cooperation.All I can say is, wow. That is some moral pretzel bending/hair spliting. Disgraceful. I think my pastor should be ashamed of putting that pap in our bulletin.
Rome,’s Cardinal Ratzinger applied the same principle to voters. Voters would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil if they voted for candidates precisely because of their permissive stand on abortion. If voters do not share that view, they may vote for the candidates for other proportionate reasons. (???!!!!) Their vote would not constitute the formal cooperation in evil forbidden by the natural law.
The Task Force concluded by urging persuasion rather than penalty. The bishops, it said, must renew their efforts “to teach clearly, to advocate effectively, and to engage, persuade and challenge Catholic politicians to act on the moral teaching of the Church.” In sum, therefore, the bishops point to persuasion rather than penalty as the most effective way of publicly engaging the tragedy of abortion.
How far has Amchurch sunk if this even needs to be said? Of course voting for a pro-abort is a sin. Such a vote constitutes participation in a (gigantic) conspiracy to commit murder.
Of course it's a sin.
Oxymoron...they are not Catholic.
Just wait: If John Kerry is elected, within about ten years it will become a Hate Crime to teach traditional Christian morality. Sound ridiculous? Who would have guessed how far down the PC road we have gone in the past ten years.
They're actually putting their personal feelings on our religion," she said. "I don't think we should be judged on the personal feelings of a priest."
I don't think she gets it...The priest isn't stating his personal feelings. He is stating what God says in the Bible. These people think they can go to church on Sunday and not live their faith through the week. They may be surprised when they stand before God..A priest or pastor is a teacher of the gospel. He would be derelict (sp) if he didn't preach his understanding of the Bible.
Amazing how really thick and dumb some people are.
Pinging .... a real Catholic priest
This has always been the Church's position when the choice is between a pro-life and a pro-abortion candidate.