Archbishop [Vlazny] criticizes Kulongoski on abortion rights fundraiser (Oregon)

Oregonian ^ | Tuesday September 30, 2008, 2:34 PM | AP/Oregonian

[Salvation]

Archbishop criticizes Kulongoski on abortion rights fundraiser

by The Associated Press

Tuesday September 30, 2008, 2:34 PM

Brent Wojahn/The OregonianJohn G. Vlazny, Archbishop of Portland, walks away from the Dambana, The Filipino Shrine at the Grotto, last Sunday following a dedication ceremony. Saint San Lorenzo Ruiz is honored there.

SALEM -- Archbishop John Vlazny is criticizing Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski, a Catholic, for playing host to an abortion rights fundraiser Friday night in Portland.

Vlazny, head of the Archdiocese of Portland, said it's an embarrassment and a scandal for Catholics that Kulongoski is hosting the event two days before the church conducts its annual "Respect Life" mass in Portland to show opposition to abortion.

"For a Catholic governor to host an event of this sort seems a deliberate dissent from the teachings of the church," Vlazny said in a statement today.

Kulongoski is a longtime supporter of a woman's right to choose an abortion.

[Salvation]

FYI, Gov. Ted Kulongoski, is a dimocrat. But you probably knew that.

Not sure how much I can post of an AP story

[Salvation]

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[Clemenza]

Kulongoski is also “Catholic.” Good for the Archbishop!

[Salvation]

“The archbishop is the governor’s pastor, and he has only respect and admiration for the archbishop,” Kulongoski spokeswoman Anna Richter Taylor said. “They obviously disagree on the issue of choice.”

Kulongoski and his wife, Mary Oberst, are the honorary hosts of Friday night’s fundraising dinner for NARAL Pro Choice Oregon. U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is among those scheduled to speak. The event is to be held at a Portland hotel.

[ArrogantBustard]

To: Archbishop John Vlazny
From: A. Bustard

Re: Abortion supporting politicians

Your Excellency, the words “excommunicate”, and “mortal sin” come to mind ...

[Salvation]

Kulongoski and Wyden are among those who need to be un-elected/kicked out of office.

[Salvation]

You are so right!

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[3AngelaD]

The Knights of Columbus are running some excellent radio election spots here the in metro Washington, D.C. media market.

[Salvation]

Another Catholic bound for excommunication:

1:

CCC Search Result - Paragraph # 2271  (618 bytes )  preview document matches 1 Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, URL: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2271.htm

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2:

CCC Search Result - Paragraph # 2272  (580 bytes )  preview document matches 2 Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life. "A URL: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2272.htm

96%

3:

CCC Search Result - Paragraph # 2322  (290 bytes )  preview document matches 2 From its conception, the child has the right to life. Direct abortion, that is, abortion willed as an end or as a means, is a "criminal" practice (GS 27 § 3), URL: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2322.htm

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4:	CCC Search Result - Paragraph # 2274  (554 bytes )  preview document matches gravely opposed to the moral law when this is done with the thought of possibly inducing an abortion, depending upon the results: a diagnosis must not be the equivalent URL: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2274.htm

[Salvation]

Wish we had them here in the northwest too.

[sitetest]

Dear Salvation,

“Not sure how much I can post of an AP story”

I believe that the rule is the title and the first two sentences.

Admin Mod - you may wish to edit to bring this in accord to the AP rule.

sitetest

[Salvation]

I had heard of that rule, but since this came from the Oregonian I wasn’t sure. I just excerpted it. Onlt four sentences! LOL!

[Salvation]

Onlt four sentences

Only four sentences

[3AngelaD]

From Lifenews.com. link to audio at bottom: Washington, DC -- The Knights of Columbus...has started airing a radio ad that urges Catholics to vote pro-life. The 30-second radio spot encouraging people to "vote pro-life" in the November elections begins running on radio stations around the United States today....

ad features the sound of an unborn baby's heartbeat at 10 weeks. The voice of a woman says, "Listening to this makes me wonder - why would anyone question that her life has begun?" It concludes with the words, "Vote your heart. Vote Pro Life..."

The presidential election features a stark contrast between Barack Obama, who favors abortions throughout pregnancy for any reason and funded at taxpayer expense, and John McCain, who opposes abortions. The radio ad follows newspaper advertisements taking pro-abortion Barack Obama running mate Joe Biden to task for misrepresenting Catholic teaching on abortion and the beginning of human life.

Biden, who is Catholic, has a long pro-abortion voting record and came under fire for some recent statements. In a recent interview, Biden said he personally believes that human life begins at conception but wouldn't make public policy protecting unborn children from abortion based on those views....The ads will run in such leading newspapers as USA Today, the Washington Times, Philadelphia Inquirer and his hometown Delaware News Journal....

KOC radio ad - http://media.kofc.org:8080/ramgen/prolife_ad.mp3? usehostname

[Salvation]

Thanks for the info.

[3AngelaD]

Happy to oblige. I made a mental note to send them some money this morning so they can buy more ad time.

[Danae]

Like Ted cares.

[Pyro7480]

I heard one this morning on WMAL as I got up this morning! I was so excited!

[mimaw]

If one were excommunicated would it be done publicly or privately? Wouldn't it be instructive to the flock to see the results of purposeful disobedience of the tenets of the Church?