Posted on 11/27/2006 4:54:01 AM PST by RightoLIfe
The Observer Dispatch reported Sunday that newly elected Congressman, Michael Arcuri, was honored after Mass for his service to the Church.
well God forbid anyone pro-abortion ever be considered of capable of doing good things!
good things or not, the Catholic Church should not laud those who break with its teaching. let the secular world praise him for whatever good he may do. it is time for the Church to call out those who work at cross purposes with Church teaching.
Paging Ted Kennedy, paging Ted Kennedy...
The parishioners should have got up and walked out. That message would have been heard loud and clear.
you know, several years back i was at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception here in DC, helping to chaperone my then Kindergartener's field trip and i saw him there [they were just opening the new JP2 center there] and i exclaimed aloud that i was expecting a thunderbolt from the sky at any minute.
I AM NOT CATHOLIC BASHING!
INSTEAD OF A RICK WARREN PING LIST,MAYBE A "ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL PING LIST"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1744480/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1744418/posts
7 SOLAS!
All churches need to start using their power to excommunicate members who support immoral acts especially ones who hold elected office. I'm not just saying the Catholic I'm saying all of them. The Christian Churches also need to openly denounce Apostate Churches such as the most liberal ones like United Church of Christ.
exactly. stop letting them hide behind the mantle of their religious faith, when clearly they are members of their respective faiths IN NAME ONLY.
"well God forbid anyone pro-abortion ever be considered of capable of doing good things!"
Abortion is one of those dogmas that are absolute. Satan is also willing to give you a worldly win so he can give you the boils to go with it.
I'm not saying that pro-abortionists are Satan, just that there is no good done with an unredeemed wrong fixed in place.
Why does not the Catholic Bishops practice what it preaches?
What is Cardinal Roger Mahony's position on this issue?
You can't possibly be serious?
It is impossible to find a single human on the planet that hasn't done something right at least a few times in life. Nevertheless, murdering the most defenseless in society for profit is a barbaric practice deserving of condemnation by all sentient beings.
No Im not entirley serious, however some of the reactions here show that maybe i shouldve been serious.
You're right, I mean Hitler liked dogs.
it strikes you as unreasonable that adherents of a faith propose to hold lawmakers of that same faith to the tenets thereof? let the kiwanis club fete him for his good deeds, or the Italian-American club, if they are so inclined. It is not appropriate for the Church to laud him when he is NOT IN COMMUNION with the Church.
"it strikes you as unreasonable that adherents of a faith propose to hold lawmakers of that same faith to the tenets thereof?"
As long as they aren't surprised when the populace won't elect them. I do not want my legislators to legislate based on a faith I do not hold. I support the death penalty; if a Catholic politician follows the increasing voice of his church to strike it down, he loses my vote. That's just one example.
And a Southern Baptist who tries to bring back Prohibition is out of the question.
The Catholic Catechism provides for the death penalty. Vote for whomever you please. Catholics in name only who hold office should be unmasked as such. I vote for lawmakers who best represent my views irrespective of their faith. One cannot be Catholic and vote prochoice. One can only be catholic in name only, in such an instance.
Well, the bishops keep clearing their throats about it, whatever the Catechism says. I also vote for those who represent my interests, irrespective of faith, but you are proposing a situation in which I might have to automatically not consider people of certain faiths.
if you are prochoice and vote on that basis then by all means vote for those candidates who share your view. Catholics, authentic catholics, do not share that view and if that means you vote against them on that basis, so be it. I am telling you that the Catholic Catechism provides for the death penalty, Catholic bishops spew a lot of crap, unfortunately. i have no problem with people who are prochoice, i DO have problems with people who try to pass themselves off as Catholics who are prochoice.
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