Posted on 11/11/2008 6:58:13 PM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
BALTIMORE - America's Roman Catholic bishops, long one of the leading political forces against abortion, vowed on Tuesday to accept no compromise for the sake of unity until there is legal protection for the unborn.
About 300 prelates gathered here for their national meeting adopted a formal blessing for a child in the womb and advised Chicago's Cardinal Francis George as he drafted a post-election letter to America's Catholics. The moves were meant to tell the incoming Obama administration, which supports keeping abortion legal, that the nation's Catholic bishops are stepping up their opposition to abortion.
"This is not a matter of political compromise or a matter of finding some way of common ground," said Bishop Daniel Conlon of Steubenville, Ohio. "It's a matter of absolutes. Either you didn't have slavery or you did have slavery. So it is with abortion."
Bishops Thomas Paprocki of Chicago said the Freedom of Choice Act could threaten conscience clauses, putting Catholic health care institutions in jeopardy.
"There are grave consequences," Paprocki said. "If Catholic hospitals were required by federal law to perform abortions, we'd have to close our hospitals."
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
“The power of Christ compels you. The power of Christ compels you. The power of Christ compels you....”
Maybe they could build a Catholic college that teaches the Catholic teaching on life while they're all together in one place? They will need Catholics who know it to carry through these plans.
Six months? Why didn’t they take this kind of stand EVERY DAY since 1973?
The American Church has been moving left for decades. The last 6 months is nothing in comparison.
Obama is not Catholic.
They'd do better excommunicating all the pro-abortion/pro-homosexual so-called "Catholics" in Congress.
Won't happen, of course.
I really hate this excuse. A church has every right to preach what it believes! Like it or not, some politicians are going to disagree. So what? Is a church supposed to keep silent about what it sees as evil? They may as well all close if that's the case.
Too much rendering to Caesar going on in the Church. Time to speak the TRUTH and let the chips fall where they may.
I’m not a Catholic, but I thank God for these courageous Catholic bishops!
OMG one of my favorite Monty Python sketches...in fact my husband and I were watching this sketch last night.
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The pro killing/abortion politicians (as well as those who voted for ANY dimocrat) have excommunicated themselves from the Catholic Church already.
Catholics didn’t vote for Obama. CINOs voted for Obama.
Over 100 Bishops Have Spoken Out on Priority of Life Issues Posted on October 28, 2008, 11:59 AM | Deal W. Hudson |
Catholic priests and bishops never endorse a candidate. They do speak to the issues, however.
No names are never mentioned. So the tax exempt status is still solid.
It’s true that the bishops are acting 35 years too late. But most of the bishops in office 35 years ago are dead. And Joseph Bernardin, the pro-abortion, homosexual, Satanist archbishop of Chicago—there, I said it!—the best friend the abortionists ever had—is dead.
If you have EVER tried to have an intelligent discussion with a “Catholic” who votes pro-abortion because the Democrat candidate is always pro-abortion, you would know that changing those people’s mind is absolutely not going to happen. That generation simply needs to die before they will stop voting pro-abortion. They have NO CLUE that their duty to Jesus Christ takes precedence over loyalty to the Democrat Party. The Catholic Church and the Democrat Party are simply two CLUBS that they were born into, and they understand their “duty” as Democrats infinitely better than they understand anything about the Catholic Church.
The bishops who are speaking up—i.e., the bishops who matter—have been fed up for years with the older, Democrat-first-Catholic-second bishops who were in office in the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. That generation grew up in Big Union, Democrat households, and were, in huge numbers, utterly corrupt.
I have watched people walk out when I was preaching—but ONLY when I preached on the duty to vote for pro-life politicians. That is one subject on which the people who just don’t “get it” are most impervious to ANY persuasion.
Wouldn't even make the msm like the yearly one with about a quarter million attending.
I believe they recently announced just that.
“Gee, maybe theyll stop funding ACORN”
They have
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/R/REL_CATHOLIC_BISHOPS_ACORN?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US
that is correct
the Catholics who attend services voted in majority for McCain
the CINOs who only come to church for weddings funerals baptisms Christmas and Easter- voted for Obummer
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