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16 Catholic Senators Vote to Fund Abortion
Post Chronicle ^ | September 17, 2007 | Deal W. Hudson

Posted on 09/17/2007 10:57:56 AM PDT by yorkie

Last Thursday, 16 of the 25 Catholics in the U. S. Senate voted to overturn the "Mexico City Policy" to allow funding to overseas health clinics providing abortions. One of the 16 was freshman Sen. Bob Casey, Jr. (D-PA) who ran against, and defeated, Sen. Rick Santorum as a "pro-life" candidate. It's doubtful whether Casey, son of the legendary pro-life Pennsylvania governor Bob Casey, will ever be able to convince voters of his pro-life label again.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 110th; abortionfunding; babykillers; bobcasey; catholicpoliticians; cinos; excommunication; pennsylvania; scranton
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To: Campion

Interesting views, but they mean so little in the end. Everyone has 24 hours a day to do whatever, with “needs” being our main limitation.

Despite efforts, nothing much changes. Peripheral issues (embryos, bioethics, etc.) seem more fluid somehow. Perhaps by winning those battles, the abortion debate could be better framed in our favor.


41 posted on 10/07/2007 4:37:53 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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To: darkangel82
So Collins is a CINO as well as being a RINO.

Yup. Apparently. It appears also that to call oneself a democrat and a Catholic are contradictions in terms given the pro-abortion stance of the democrat party.

42 posted on 10/07/2007 4:46:14 PM PDT by mc5cents (Show me just what Mohammd brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman)
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To: Scotswife
You cannot honestly think the Vatican is capable of tracking down every offender worldwide and issuing decrees of official excommunication.

It would take many letters, a good volume of office supplies, and a couple hours a week from every priest.

A very high percent of offenders could be given the chance to recant, or else suffer some degree of shame and humiliation for quarreling with their own chosen faith.

43 posted on 10/07/2007 4:49:34 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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To: yorkie

Why do you call them Catholics? They do not follow Catholic doctrine.


44 posted on 10/07/2007 4:52:08 PM PDT by BillT
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To: SteveMcKing

“It would take many letters, a good volume of office supplies, and a couple hours a week from every priest. “

Really?
How did you come up with those figures?

The teaching is already there - it’s been there for a long time and catholics who don’t abide by it will eventually answer for it in the end.

I’m wondering why a non-catholic is so caught up in trying to tell the Church how to handle these matters.


45 posted on 10/07/2007 4:53:53 PM PDT by Scotswife
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To: taxcontrol
"shouldn't that read:“16 Senators, who profess to be Catholics, fund abortion”

You got it. Anyone can call themselves a Christian but the proof is in the walk. "By their fruits you shall know them". Using this standard these are not Christians. It's one thing to slip, sin and repent for it. These people made a conscious decision to reject Christ for worldly gain and admiration.

46 posted on 10/07/2007 4:57:59 PM PDT by joebuck
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To: yorkie

I live in the second most Catholic state in the nation, yet it is also the most pro-death. We must, as always, distinguish between Catholics and CINOs.


47 posted on 10/07/2007 5:00:34 PM PDT by Clemenza (Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
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To: SteveMcKing
These people excommunicate themselves. Here is the link to the Catechism of the Catholic Church:

Catechism of the Catholic Church and what it says about those who support abortion

So what do you think this says about these congressmen?

48 posted on 10/07/2007 5:00:58 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: taxcontrol

CINOs all.


49 posted on 10/07/2007 5:01:30 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Salvation

Without the church publicly chastising them in some dramatic fashion, they will continue to get Catholic votes while being directly responsible for promoting abortion.

Simply informing them of their after-life penalty doesn’t seem to be working. I am quite certain they chuckle at it.


50 posted on 10/07/2007 5:12:21 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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To: SteveMcKing

I agree that the Bishops should publicly call these proabortion Catholics on the carpet. There aren’t too many Bishops today who have the cojones to declare a public excommunication.

I miss men like the late Cardinal O’Connor.


51 posted on 10/07/2007 5:31:19 PM PDT by Palladin (Satan to Fidel: "Let me light your cigar.")
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