How? The Catholic vote is what puts Democrats into office, and Catholics are more pro-abortion than Protestants.
Why are Catholics a dependable, Democrat constituency?
Posted on 04/29/2010 8:04:43 AM PDT by ethics
USCCB Migration Chairman Joins Arizona Bishops in Decrying Anti-Immigrant Measure, Calls for Comprehensive Reform
WASHINGTON— In solidarity with the Catholic bishops of Arizona, Bishop John C. Wester of Salt Lake City, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Migration, issued a statement April 27, opposing the enactment and implementation of Arizona SB 1070, which criminalizes undocumented immigrants.
“This new law, although limited to the State of Arizona, could have impact throughout the nation, in terms of how members of our immigrant communities are both perceived and treated,” Bishop Wester said in the statement. “SB 1070 gives law enforcement officials powers to detain and arrest individuals based on a very low legal standard, possibly leading to the profiling of individuals based upon their appearance, manner of speaking, or ethnicity.”
Bishop Wester called SB 1070 “symptomatic of the absence of federal leadership on the issue of immigration” and called for “the Administration and Congress to work in a bipartisan manner to enact comprehensive immigration reform as soon as possible.” Full text of the statement follows.
(Excerpt) Read more at usccb.org ...
How? The Catholic vote is what puts Democrats into office, and Catholics are more pro-abortion than Protestants.
Why are Catholics a dependable, Democrat constituency?
Bunch of idiots.
Before Catholics abandon the church, isn't there some way for American Catholics to force the Catholic leadership to accede to American, muscular, conservative, Christianity?
How can Catholics Americanize the Catholic church?
You might have been a liitle less cryptic in your post.
The superficial message perceived is probalby the opposite of what you intented.
Maybe a more apt question would be "how can Catholics 'Catholicize' AMCHURCH™?
Perhaps limiting our weekly offerings, including a note explaining we do this as a means of protest towards the position of the USCCB?
Add,
We will use the left over money to support other causes which the Church supports (financially supporting Pro-Life candidates perhaps?)
Empty Collection Basket Alert...
This is the last straw for the Catholic Church...they are officially agitators for the enemy now.
This is no longer arguable.
I believe the calculation of the hierarchy is that your withholdings will be more than compensated by the offerings of the illegal, but devout, aliens who are flocking to the churches. And, as a touch of irony, you as a taxpayer will be indirectly subsidizing the illegals' offerings... /g
I wish I knew.
My comparison of the Church to the Federal government was not casual or impulsive.
The feeling of helplessness and hopelessness drives the wholesale evacuation of support, yet the totalitarians simply increase the abuse.
The majority of the voting electorate voted for Obama, therefore the odds are that you voted for Obama.
It does come across that way...lunch was calling
I am not going to take advice and guidance from a failed Catholic unless it is to point out where you went wrong. This battle is not for the weak and the quitters. If you believe can find peace and salvation in the message of another denomination and not in the Catechism God Bless or God help you.
Since you know neither of the parties to that discussion you don't know what has or has not been attempted. You also place little faith in the power of truth and the ability of the Holy Spirit to effect change.
What we say about our Catholic faith is the easy part. What we do with it shapes who we really are. Many good Catholics voted for President Obama. Many voted for Senator McCain. Both parties have plenty of decent people in their ranks.
But when we hear that 54 percent of American Catholics voted for President Obama last November, and that this somehow shows a sea change in their social thinking, we can reasonably ask: How many of them practice their faith on a regular basis? And when we do that, we learn that most practicing Catholics actually voted for Senator McCain. Of course, that doesn't really tell us whether anyone voted for either candidate for the right reasons. Nobody can do a survey of the secret places of the human heart. But it does tell us that numbers can be used to prove just about anything. We won't be judged on our knowledge of poll data. We'll be judged on whether we proved it by our actions when we said "I am a Catholic, and Jesus Christ is Lord."
- Archbishop Charles Chaput
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Sit up in your chair higher so the lesson about why it’s wrong to generalize doesn’t sail so far over your head.
From my own personal experience in the RCC, which you have no knowledge of either, the Holy Spirit often has little to do with the political and financial decision making of the organizational hierarchy. I know what I speak of being there. I know what I’ve seen and heard and experienced and learned what I know from the priests who were close family friends and leaders of congregations. If you want to romanticize and idealize how RCC church decisions are made, well that might work for you. Don’t rip on others who see these things going on they believe are unbiblical, and decide to separate themselves from it.
Your condescending attitude towards other Christians not in your denomination is also unhelpful, unflattering and based on the RCC’s own track record, hardly defendable or deserved.
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