Posted on 11/20/2008 3:38:20 PM PST by wagglebee
Boston, MA (LifeNews.com) -- It's no surprise that Catholic Church officials take pro-abortion politicians or groups to task for saying they are out of step with pro-life Catholic teachings. Now, a Planned parenthood CEO in Massachusetts is turning the tables and claiming Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston is out of step with his membership.
After the presidential election, O'Malley told the Boston Globe that he is worried about the election of Barack Obama because of his pro-abortion views.
The concern come despite his pleasure that the nation turned a corner in electing the first African-American president.
"My joy, however, is tempered by the knowledge that this man has a deplorable record when it comes to pro-life issues and is possibly in the pocket of Planned Parenthood," O'Malley said.
The Catholic cardinal told the newspaper that Planned Parenthood "in its origins was a very racist organization to eliminate the blacks" and "it’s sort of ironic that he’s been co-opted by them."
Dianne Luby, the president and CEO of the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, responded to O'Malley in an email to the newspaper. She didn't respond to the racism contention but claimed O'Malley's views don't represent those of Boston Catholics.
"It diminishes Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley’s credibility when he attacks President-elect Barack Obama and Planned Parenthood for views and services his own members overwhelmingly support," Luby claims.
"If Cardinal O’Malley is going to opine on politics, and the bishops are planning to discuss lessons learned from last week’s election, it would be good for them to understand why their messages didn't stick with their primary audience," Luby shot back.
"Cardinal O’Malley and the bishops have a lot of work to do in order to reconnect with their members," Luby concluded. "It appears from exit polls during this most recent election cycle, that Cardinal O’Malley is out of step with most voters on this very personal decision."
O'Malley, in his original comments to the Globe, appears to disagree.
"Obama is the president, and everyone wishes him well, and we will try to work with him. However, I hope he realizes that his election was not a mandate to rush ahead with a pro-abortion platform," he said.
The Catholic cardinal also said Obama and Planned Parenthood are disingenuous about claming they want to reduce abortions because their main legislation in Congress will promote them.
"Now they're talking about pushing this FOCA, which doesn't sound to me like it’s going to try and reduce abortions, but simply make them much more accessible to people, and pay for them, at home and abroad," he said.
No you idiot, McCain failed to make abortion an issue, there is no reason to believe that the majority of Catholics agree with your pro-death views.
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I guess the Church is supposed to be a democracy. But what canone expect from some hare-brained PP broad?
He probably is out of step with the cafeteria Catholics of his diocese. He’s in step with God, though. As for Hispanics being cafeteria Catholics, I suspect that the Irish and Germans are cafeteria Catholics in similar proportions.
As a Boston (Greater Boston) Catholic I can assure Miss Luby (I'd wager the shirt on my back that she's a confirmed bachelorette) that you could count the number of *real* Catholics in this state on the fingers of one hand.So I say to this dame that she's full of bleep.
One hopes that Miss Luby will not find herself in step with red-hot pitchforks or some such after the great, big exit poll that awaits all of us.
It’s something the American Church doesn’t like to acknowledge, but there is significant variance in fidelity along ethnic lines. Groups like Germans and Poles who already had their schisms, either in the old country or here, tend to significantly higher orthodoxy than the Irish, for whom being able to claim some sort of Catholic identity is wrapped up with their “Irishness,” regardless of how little heed they actually give Rome.
Latinos, like the Poles and Germans, show a tendency to just leave if they find a church they like better, although it’s going to take a couple of generations for that tendency to sort itself out entirely.
I didn’t realize it was the clergy’s job to stay in step with the world.
Irish Americans were shocked when the first wave of Italian immigrants came, and they saw that the men rarely attended Church and the women gave more attention to the saints than to the mass itself. There is a good reason why one never uses the term "Italian Catholic" without irony. ;-)
Sure! Just ask Cardinal Pelosi...
What the Catholic Church needs to do, and I’ve been waiting for it for years, is to have a well-publicized press national conference with lots of prepublicity and PUBLICLY EXCOMMUNICATE EVERY SINGLE POLITICIAN THAT HOLDS THAT ABORTION SHOULD BE LEGAL AT ANY STAGE . . . READ OFF EVERY SINGLE NAME . . . ONE AFTER ANOTHER. AND DEMAND THAT NO CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES WILL BE ALLOWED TO GIVE THEM THE SACRAMENTS UNTIL THEY CONFESS THEIR HORRIBLE SIN.
Until they do that, they’re just whistling in the wind.
My elderly aunt and I had a number of conversations about politics and religion before she died.She went to Mass every day until her health started to fail (as she reached 90),she never was without her rosary beads...etc.Yet she voted RAT every single time.I tried to explain to her what today's RAT Party was about (abortion,homosexual "marriage",etc) because she wasn't up on politics.She was appalled by what I told her.But when I tried to discover if I had succeeded in changing her mind I found that I hadn't.When I asked why she was gonna continue voting RAT she said "because the RATS give me my Social Security".
I knew at that point that she was a lost cause...politically speaking.
I would love to see that day!
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It’s a blessed thing when a church leader is out of step with the people while being true to the Lord. It is the people, in such cases that should be in step.
The problem is that too many leaders are not merely in the world, but of the world.
My understanding has always been that excommunication is forever.So,if I'm correct,then "confession" would be useless and the sacraments cannot be given under any circumstances.
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