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As a Catholic, I feel the Church needs to speak out more forcefully. They should not allow any politician who support legal abortion to remain in the Church. The Catholic Church needs to tells it’s members to take a stand or leave!!! I lovingly remember my Irish grandmother saying the rosary in between her soap operas. If she knew that 40 million babies were killed, disabled babies born alive and allowed to die, she would know what to say to these so called pro choice Catholics. It is time that the Church leaders do the same. To have Andrew Greeley, a Jesuit priest, writing editorials condemning Sarah Palin, a woman who has chosen life, is unbelievable to me.

I agree. The bishops need to stop being so weak. They need a no-nonsense, unequivocal message.

Here’s an email I sent to Bishop Chaput:

To Bishop Chaput:

God bless you, Bishop!

I always look forward to reading your articles on this subject, and you always hit a homerun with it.

I am deeply saddened and disgusted with the way Catholics, even one of my best friends, rationalizes this issue. There is nothing more important than protecting the life of the unborn. I deeply fear what will happen to our nation if we elect Obama.

Please continue to be vocal in this crusade and bring more people with you.

I will pray for you that you can be a strong, fervent voice for the other U.S. Bishops, when you get together with them next month.

I strongly believe that the bishops need to have a much more committed, convicted, and unequivocal message on how this issue predominates a decision to vote for a candidate. More than ever, we need the bishops’ leadership on this issue. Please don’t let them get away with weakening that message.

Thank you again for your devotion.

Not the first time something written by the walking dead Greeley has made me sick. He's a Jesuit so I question weather he's a real Catholic anyway. However I think the Church should put the decrepit old creep in a rest home somewhere and not let him communicate with the outside world. It's people of his ilk that confuse some of our less than informed Catholics.

MaryAnne, you are so right. Most of the bishops are either totally corrupt or simply incompetent wimps, to be frank. Fortunately this same group are mostly nearing retirement. And Sambi is not going to follow the old boy system when he recommends appointments to Benedict, and Benedict knows the scoop on these guys anyway. He is not the sweetheart John Paul was, he’s had his eye on these men for 3 decades. The good bishops are in the minority now, but strong and coming on stronger as great leaders like Burke (now in the Vatican, what a loss to the US, but a gain for the Church overall), Chaput, Bruskewitz, Vasa, are leading the way. I hope as younger ones come in with these examples, the tide will finally turn.

You rightfully expect your bishop to teach, govern and sanctify, their mission from Christ Himself, and many have failed in that duty. The laity and protestants have carried the ball for the prolife cause. If the bishops had been true to their mission from God, abortion would now be illegal in this country. There is no more powerful moral force (or perhaps political and financial too) than the Catholic Church when Catholics are UNITED. But the shepherds have betrayed the flock and sown seeds of confusion, doubt and even heresy.

Thank God the Holy Spirit has listened to the prayers of people like your grandmother, that is probably the only reason we have been spared. Our Country is on the brink of abandoning God, at which point God will abandon the USA, and it is the Catholic Church that can save us. If we get spiritually on track, there’s a tremendous momentum, and our protestant brethren and even most Jews, even moderate Muslims, stand with us on the basic values, and then we can turn back the tide of evil from the left.