Posted on 10/15/2008 9:58:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
George Weigel, the prominent conservative Catholic writer best-known for his authoritative biography of Pope John Paul II, offers in the new issue of Newsweek a detailed and thoughtful rejoinder to the anti-abortion academics who have endorsed Obama. In the piece, Weigel reflects on the energetic response some bishops have mounted this year to statements by abortion-rights supporting Catholic Democrats, and turns his attention to the challenges the bishops, and anti-abortion Catholics, might face in an Obama administration. Weigel even raises the specter of some kind of tax protest. An excerpt:
"Many U.S. bishops...seem exasperated with Catholic politicians who present themselves as ardent Catholics and yet consistently oppose the Church on what the bishops consider the premier civil-rights issue of the day. It seems unlikely that the bishops, having found their voices after discovering the limits of their patience, will back off in an Obama administration—which could raise some interesting questions for, and about, a Vice President Joe Biden, whose fitness to receive holy communion may well be discussed in executive session at the bishops' annual meeting in mid-November. Biden is not the only Catholic who will be seriously challenged by an Obama administration bent on reversing what its pro-choice allies regard as eight years of defeat; pro-life Catholics will face different, if equally grave, dilemmas. The bishops already find themselves defending the Catholic integrity of Catholic hospitals under pressures from state governments; those pressures, as well as pressures on doctors and other Catholic health-care professionals, will increase in an Obama administration, especially if FOCA succeeds in knocking down state conscience-clause protections for Catholic health-care providers and institutions. And should an Obama administration reintroduce large-scale federal funding of abortion, the bishops will have to confront a grave moral question they have managed to avoid for decades,
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
IMO, NO Christian could look God in the eye after voting for the evil one.
Bump for the morning — am substituting for someone’s 6:00 AM Adoration hour. Good-night.
You have perpetual Adoration?
I am sorry, but this is just pure evil. Obama and pro-baby killers are completely under the spell of satan.
The Freedom of Choice Act will make every doctor, hospital and clinic be made to perform abortions.
What about the individual rights of the doctors who don’t believe in abortion. I guess it is only pro-choice when they tell you what your choice is.
I don’t know what it will take, except for God Almighty to come blazing out of the sky, before these people understand the genocide that they are allowing to take place. Even at our expence.
I can only hope that McCain becomes president, and Sarah takes the hatchet to PPH. In fact, make that a flipping wrecking ball.
Wow.
An awful lot of posters are giving if/and/but “pro choice” rationalizations on there.
Amazing how people will rationalize an evil issue and refuse to take the actions and consequences to logical conclusions.
Yes, a small church — but growing — about 1000 families now.
550 English bulletins and about 150 Spanish bulletins. (I know the English ones disappear each week.)
On the Perpetual Adoration, have a priest from Missionaries of the Blessed Sacrament come to your parish and do a Mission during Lent.
We had one speak about three years ago (maybe it was two) during Lent, and by the first week in May we had our Perpetual Adoration set up.
They bring all the materials, but someone at the parish needs to coordinate it.
You Tube - Over 1,500 Black Babies Per Day Are Killed In The USA / Pro-Life Anti-Abortion Video PSA
Somewhere, Margaret Sanger is smiling.
[whilst desperately trying to extinguish the hell fires that are consuming her]
And Obamanation doesn’t even realize that his future voting block is being annihilated.
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