Posted on 11/02/2008 7:36:50 AM PST by Publius804
Pro-Obama Catholics plan ‘stop the vote’ at parishes
Denver, Oct 31, 2008 / 06:26 pm (CNA).- Priests for Life is warning that James Salt and Chris Korzen from the pro-Obama organization Catholics United sent a blast email on Thursday offering instructions on how to prevent pro-life Catholics from distributing electoral guides near Catholic parishes around the country. Fr. Frank Pavone, director of Priests for Life, has also pointed out that the Catholics United plan could have negative legal consequences.
In a message sent from the email address parishprotection@catholics-united.org under the subject "Help Protect Catholic Churches from Political Manipulation," James Salt and Chris Korzen say that with less than a week to go until Election Day, things are getting ugly. “In a final act of desperation, the religious far right is calling on its activists to defy the U.S. Catholic Bishops' order to keep unapproved election materials from church property by doing a 'literature drop' at parishes across the country. The goal of this activity is to convince Catholics that it's immoral to vote for candidates who don't subscribe to the right's narrow agenda."
The email goes on to warn that last Monday, "the partisan group Priests for Life held a teleseminar to train some 3,300 activists nationwide on how to place divisive political literature on the windshield of every churchgoing Catholic's car this Saturday and Sunday."
Salt and Korsen then announce that Catholics United is "spearheading an effort to put the brakes on the religious right's plans in as many parishes as possible," and is asking followers to "call your pastor and encourage him to instruct the ushers to monitor the church parking lot during the worship service."
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment
Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
I am Baptist and not very knowledgeable on Roman Catholic polity. But I was wondering....why doesn’t the RC just excommunicate these two and others that violate RC beliefs?
How exactly can we get them excommunicated?
Had you looked back in history you would have found quite a number of millions of “tolerant” people
being helped into box cars enroute for concentration camps by the actors their “tolerance” enabled
I think a wake-up call is being dimly perceived by some - but by no means all- of the Catholic church hierarchy
They are already excommunicated by their own actions. A formal excommunication may take a long time to be issued simply because the Church moves slowly in such matters.
It’s kind of one of those innocent until proven guilty.
There is a chance at anytime that a person could repent, so it takes a lot to excommunicate.
I whish they would do it more often.
The Catholic Church is thoroughly infiltrated with Marxists who worship Karl Marx instead of God.
I know. I am a graduate of Villanova University and a former Catholic. I was and am disgusted! And...There is absolutely no way for the common believing people to reform this church.
I have a feeling that voter intimidation will be rampant this year. Farrakhan type thugs in bow ties will be standing at polling places, glaring at obvious McCain supporters. People will be kicked, beaten...fights will start. This will be a very bad time, throughout most of the country. And the police reaction in places like Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, New York? Arrest the McCain supporters for racism, of course. But don’t expect any of this to be covered at MSNBC. Unless, of course, Obama should lose. Then fraud at the polls and...well, you know the rest.
These people are beneath despicable.
If all “Catholics in name only” were kicked out of the church, there would only be need for 3 churches east of the Mississippi!
Yup. To the left, "free speech" has always meant shouting the other guy down.
Please God, let Catholics see the Sign of the Times in which we live. This is my meditation on the Holy Father’s visit to Washington in April. I don’t have a picture. it’s copyrighted so I can’t post it. God Bless.
Before Pope Benedict came to America to celebrate Mass in New York and Washington, it was revealed that as a young boy in Germany he had had a cousin with Down Syndrome. One day a Nazi doctor came and claimed his cousin for the Third Reich. Taken to be “cared for” at the “hospital” young Joseph Ratzinger never saw his cousin again: one of the host of “useless eaters” marked for extermination by that brutal regime.
My wife and I operate St. Joseph’s House, a daycare and respite care home for handicapped children. As it happened one of the children we care for, a wheelchair bound young lady, was chosen along with three other handicapped folks to carry the gifts up to the altar before the consecration at the Mass at Nationals Stadium in Washington D.C. on April 17, 2008. One of these was James, a 30ish man who works in the Officer’s Club at Andrews AFB. James has Down Syndrome. He was chosen to carry the large host which would become the Body of Christ lifted up before the assembled. As James with great ceremony advanced toward the Pope, his native enthusiasm overcame his reserve and he started to run. Simultaneously the Holy Father leapt from his chair and walked towards James with his arms outstretched. We have a picture of this moment which I cannot look at without tearing up. What did he see as he gazed so lovingly at James? I believe he saw his cousin. I believe he saw the face of Jesus. And I believe that his great prayer as he elevated that host on that impossibly beautiful day was “As long as you did to these the least of my brethren, you did it to Me.”
The next day April 18th, a boy was born to of all people, the Governor of Alaska. They named him Trig.
They are not Catholics.
You walked away from the Church, so I think you can go ahead and stop being disgusted now.
I wish they'd start with Molehern.
I wish I could spell....
It is a Mortal Sin to vote for abortion.
Our Priest made that quite clear this morning.
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