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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 ...
Yes, but they also put out that document filled with the usual equivocation, which gave the party of parsing an opening.
The problem is that the Church has been feminized and cannot condemn evil men.
Step one, in every communication, in every presser and article in Catholic publications, call this thing by its proper name, murder.
Step two, public excommunications, including people who display yard signs and bumper stickers, for they give public support to a grave sin.
Ste[ three, decouple abortion and the death penalty, couple the issue with euthanasia instead.
Step four, call for and lead civil disobedience. Evidently nothing awakens Americans more than the picture on TV of white people being arrested. Imagine if the perp is wearing the robes of the Church.
Well yes. That's what the government wants.
George agreed that losing federal funds would put Catholic health care facilities, which make up a third of the nation's hospitals, out of business.
Yes indeed, that's the idea.
Closing Catholic hospitals would put many patients seeking charitable care from those facilities at risk, he added.
Of course. Once they've put the competition out of business, and severely reduced the influence of the Catholic Church, they will have created millions more needy people for the government to take care of. Why, they'd have to double everybody's taxes!
“I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found none.” Ezekiel 22:30
Not much clout, but the Church isn’t being silent like it has in the past!
Go get ‘em!!
>>>Not much clout, but the Church isn’t being silent like it has in the past!
Well, just to be fair, my complaint was not limited to Catholics... fact is, they are far more vocal about the issue than many others. I’m just so sick of the lack of outrage from the church (body of Christ) as a whole.
It’s always been silent rage rather than overt, but with Zero pushing for more SS organizations, it’ll get more overt.
These statements should have been made before the election ... after the Kerry debacle.
How many children died and will die because of their lack of courage we will never know.
A Politician’s Promise: No Right to Life! No Freedom!Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey (Roman Catholic) - Website Homepage. ... Email the Bishop. After committing a murder in Rome, the famous 17th century ...
www.patersondiocese.org/page.cfm?Web_ID=2752
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Bishop Warns of Obama’s Promise to Implement Extreme “Freedom of ...Oct 21, 2008 ... PATERSON, New Jersey, October 21, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Arthur Serratelli of Paterson, NJ penned a column for his diocesan ...
www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/oct/08102108.html
Group asks IRS to investigate Catholic bishop against Obama ...A church-state watchdog group has asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate whether the Roman Catholic bishop of Paterson, NJ, violated tax laws by ...
www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2008-10-22-irs-catholic-obama_N.htm
Don’t close the hospitals, just refuse to follow the law. Don’t go quietly into the night.
And go bishops!!! To see these guys standing up w/ such vigor is wonderful.
I'll be there. Again.
Metro loves us. MSM ignore us.
This needs to be said loud and often!
As Christians we are to pray for and obey our leaders, unless they are in direct opposition to God’s will. Obama is in direct opposition to God on so many issues, namely abortion and homosexual marriage, that I cannot support him. I will continue to pray that obama changes his ways.
Thanks!!!!
The law said that Dred Scott wasn’t a human being.
Quite often, but I not on the newsletter list for "Catholic Bishop Times".
Good. Bit late, but good.
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