Posted on 04/20/2005 8:13:14 PM PDT by neverdem
Maybe we should call him "the Hammer".
Patrick Leahy, a prominent Catholic!!!! OMG! PROMINENT???
Catholic Liberal Universal Brotherhood - C. L. U. B.
Well, heck yes -- that's all Catholicism is to them -- a club, membership in which can get you a few votes here or there, as long as you're not too "selective" about actually believing in anything.
Kind of like Satan is a prominent angel, don'tchaknow!
That quote is just SO rich!
And the bish says back: "Yes, Mario, LET'S NOT BE SELECTIVE in what rules you at least try to live by!"
Leahy, Kennedy, Kerry, McAwful and co. are all pro-choice.
They have a choice: they can believe in the teachings of the Church OR they can get their miserable asses out the door!
I'm sooooo sick of Dems posing as Catholics. It's sickening.
One has to ask oneself who is best served by aborting millions of future productive citizens and soldiers of this nation, and why would organizations or other nations willingly support such actions?
Whatever it takes to destroy this grand experiment we have had for nigh on 230 years,, the cost is inconsequential to our enemies, both foreign and from within.
LOL!
This is such a revealing comment from Leahy. For crying out loud, I'm a Jew and even I understand Catholic teaching better than Leahy does.
The Catholic Church opposes the death penalty on essentially practical grounds: Life should only be taken when there is no other workable alternative, and in the Church's view, there are workable deterrents short of the death penalty. Support or opposition to the death penalty, just like support or opposition to a war, is thus a matter of judgment and discernment; as long as your opinion is properly grounded on a moral bedrock that acknowledges life as sacred, you can disagree with the official judgment of the Church.
The context of abortion in American politics, however, has moved far beyond this sort of practicality. If we were debating when precisely it's acceptable to let a baby die to save the life of the mother, the matter would be comparable to the death penalty. Catholic teaching is that the doctor must at all times try to save both lives. If pro-abortion American Catholics agreed with this basic teaching, and were merely debating the practical question of when it's tolerable for a doctor to accept defeat and focus his limited resources on saving just one life or the other, that would be a legitimate area to dissent from the official judgment of the Church. But we're way, way beyond that point—pro-abortion Catholics make the baby's entire right to life subject to the whim of the mother. That's not a judgment question, that's rejection of basic moral doctrine of the Church. There's a word for people who do that, and it's called "Protestants." Leahy should just become Episcopalian and stop worrying about what Catholic bishops think of his politics.
hey, hey, hey; Don't come down hard on ALL protestants: I for one am a born-again protestant and I love your new Pope: Congratualtions ;)!
There are those even :on" our side" who think that a declining population is OK. Fact is that the shrinking of any gene-pool is an invitation to extinction. We are dependent not only on the labor of Mexicans but the fruit of their loins.
Leahy and the democraps depend on the votes of fellow CINO's to get elected! Must keep up the sham of 'being a Catholic' while serving Satan for the empowerment.
I have heard that as well, that a diverse population is one more likely to survive.
Sehr Gut! But Leahy needs to be joined by the priests who mistaught him, who never told him as you have so eloquently done the authetic teachings of the Church.
Benedict XVI understands it durn well: relativism.
I think they used to call it racial invigorization. No accident that the leaders of both indian and African communities are, so often, men of mixed race.
Both Luther and Calvin would have lined up far closer to this new pope than they would have to the mainline protestants of today.
If we were debating when precisely it's acceptable to let a baby die to save the life of the mother, the matter would be comparable to the death penalty. Catholic teaching is that the doctor must at all times try to save both lives. If pro-abortion American Catholics agreed with this basic teaching, and were merely debating the practical question of when it's tolerable for a doctor to accept defeat and focus his limited resources on saving just one life or the other, that would be a legitimate area to dissent from the official judgment of the Church. But we're way, way beyond that point—pro-abortion Catholics make the baby's entire right to life subject to the whim of the mother. That's not a judgment question, that's rejection of basic moral doctrine of the Church.
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