Posted on 06/29/2007 3:35:19 PM PDT by wagglebee
The letter continued, “Similarly, today legislators who truly think abortion immoral could vote to keep it legal since greater evils, multiple deaths of women (especially poor women) from botched abortions as seen before Roe v. Wade, would follow.”
3500 murders a day IS NOT the "lesser of two evils"!
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Bishops are “ordered” not to harass certain US politicians.
Who does this guy think he is, the Pope? Where does he get off, giving commands he has no authority to issue?
Imperfect men making imperfect decisions and drawing imperfect conclusions.
What could be more evil then killing a human being?
Moral edicts from the gang of lefties running Marquette University are meaningless.
So women dying from botched abotions is more evil than putting to death a helpless baby, or really all helpless babies? I don't understand the (il)logic.
Especially when you consider that the drop in abortion deaths was underway BEFORE Roe v. Wade, it was due to antibiotics, not legalized infanticide.
“In a letter to the New York Times on Monday, Daniel C. Maguire, a professor of moral theology at Marquette University, stated that bishops should stop harassing Catholic politicians who vote in favor of abortion.”
Time for the bishop’s to start threatening university professors.
It’s on a slightly different issue, but that’s what the Archbishop of Omaha has done.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1858508/posts
I think it is also academically dishonest, heinous and grievous to use the teachings of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas to support an immoral position that proportionally is not even close to what they were originally teaching.
Looks like his theological “tenure” should be terminated.
Maguire is a heretic, plain and simple. It’s long past time that Marquette removed this aging hippie from its theology department.
The Cardinal Newman Society has recently been trying to put pressure on the president of Marquette to take action.
Smoking in public. Voting Republican. Opposing abortion. Driving an SUV.
The New York Times gets zillions of letters from crackpots of all stripes. So why did they pick this one to publish? Obviously, because Maguire comes with the label CATHOLIC THEOLOGIAN which allows the NYTimes to do yet another “in your face” to the institution they loathe the most. But why is Maguire allowed to continue advertising himself in this deceptive way? Because the bishops are too wimpy to stop him from it. After all, the only ones who really suffer from this nonsense are those who actually believe what they teach.
"Greater evils" like voting Republican,perhaps?
Stop harassing them? You mean they started and I missed it??!! :(
Yes, the professor seems a bit confused about his order in the RCC chain of command!
Time for Archbishop Dolan to come down hard on this heretic.
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