Bishop Orders Priests To Read Anti-Obama Letter At Sunday Sermons

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[topher]

Joining the chorus of Roman Catholic clergy in Illinois criticizing President Barack Obama before next week's election, Peoria Bishop Daniel Jenky ordered priests to read a letter to parishioners on Sunday before the presidential election, explaining that politicians who support abortion rights also reject Jesus.

"By virtue of your vow of obedience to me as your Bishop, I require that this letter be personally read by each celebrating priest at each Weekend Mass," Jenky wrote in a letter circulated to clergy in the Catholic Diocese of Peoria.

In the letter, Jenky cautions parishioners that Obama and a majority of U.S. senators will not reconsider the mandate that would require employers, including religious groups, to provide free birth control coverage in their health care plans. "This assault upon our religious freedom is simply without precedent in the American political and legal system," Jenky wrote.

"Today, Catholic politicians, bureaucrats, and their electoral supporters who callously enable the destruction of innocent human life in the womb also thereby reject Jesus as their Lord," Jenky added. "They are objectively guilty of grave sin."

[ArrogantBustard]

Pretty much what I said on another thread.

[353FMG]

If they do it again it will mean that they will endorse late term abortion and same-sex-marriage.

Not a very good example to their flock.

B16 and Higher Up may frown on that.

[Bryanw92]

>> Romney has no intention whatsoever to lift a finger to overturn Roe v Wade, homo marriage, open homo military, or anything else “That is already done”. As Ryan says, “Let’s move on”. Anyone voting for R-R expecting any of that to happen is going to be severely disappointed.

Four more years of Obama will not reverse any of these. Chances are, they will gain ground as he presses for gay marriage in 50 states, unlimited taxpayer-funded abortions right up until the moment of birth, and a military where gays prey on straights.

R-R will stop the advance of the gay/baby killer agenda and just might put Americans back to work and give us some energy independence that puts us in control of our future again. Maybe they’ll even give us the backbone and morals to tell the gays and baby-killers that enough is enough and then start rolling back their advances of the last 4 years.

[verga]

I had a head-to-head dealing with Bishop DiLorenzo, very revealing. I’ll tell you about it if you like.

Love to Freepmail me is you like.

[jobim]

OK. Bishop DiLorenzo headed the Diocese of Honolulu for the
several years prior to his present post. Our diocese certainly
must be one of the worst, least-faithful to church teachings among
the clergy, and after 40 years, among the population. The speakers
brought in are generally the garden-variety dissenters and
heretics, Call-to-Action folks. As a teacher in a Catholic school,
I was privy to the fact that RE & Catholic school
teachers were encouraged to listen to these speakers,
and were given credits that were documented for
background necessary to teach religion.

DiLorenzo was making his first round of visits to parishes
on the outer islands, and when he came to the Big Island, and
sat in our hall, and asked if there were any questions/concerns,
I said: Is it acceptable to the bishop that Catholic teachers
were required to attend workshops put on by known heretics
and dissenters (I named a sampling of them)? This then launched
an intense hour discussion between he and my fellow parishoners,
all of them excellently-informed Catholics
(our little parish is famous in the state for orthodoxy; we
are the outlier).

The next morning, the bishop called my principal, a Deacon
(who belongs to a different parish), and asked him what he
thought of me, and was I safe with children. The bishop also instructed
the pastor who was the final authority at our school to remove
me as religion teacher, an order that stayed in place even after DiLorenzo left. I was primarily an English/History teacher,
so it didn't cost me a job, but it put a permanent black mark
against my name. I wrote two long follow-up letters, asking
why he did this, would this impact my teaching in another state
some day, the justice of it, etc. I called a few times also, and
finally his secretary said: forget it, the bishop will simply
not respond to you.

Was I safe with children? Pretty chiiling, no?

[Jacquerie]

I have heard estimates that 5% of the American public would like to be a fire truck.

[jobim]

See my response.

[Cicero]

Bam-Bam has been running ads on Washington, DC television stations with multiple sound clips of Romney saying that he wants to see Roe v. Wade overturned, and wants to de-fund Planned Parenthood ... followed by "I'm Barack 0bama, and I approved this message."

That's really funny! I was just thinking that the GOPe and the Romney campaign don't want to stress that he is pro-life, for fear of offending people. And that Obama doesn't want to, either, for fear of persuading people to vote for Romney. . . . But evidently the latter is not true.

[null and void]

I have heard estimates that 5% of the American public would like to be a fire truck.

When my son was a wee tyke he wanted to grow up to be a garbage truck.

[null and void]

Chilling? It would be to me.

Perhaps he thought it would be a resume enhancement?

[Vaquero]

I have heard estimates that 5% of the American public would like to be a fire truck.
When my son was a wee tyke he wanted to grow up to be a garbage truck.

And that answers the perennial question. “What has 4 wheels and flies”

[Vaquero]

I have heard estimates that 5% of the American public would like to be a fire truck.
When my son was a wee tyke he wanted to grow up to be a garbage truck.

And that answers the perennial question. “What has 4 wheels and flies”

[karnage]

Jenky rocks!

[Pining_4_TX]

Aren’t these guys late to the party? Where were they all these years when Democrat politicians like the Kennedys were spouting their nonsense about being against abortion personally, but supporting it politically. That, btw, is a creepy position to take. It means you think abortion is murder, but it should not be banned.

[verga]

Another reason to hate this butt hole

[jjotto]

Until Obamacare, the web site of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops bragged about having worked for socialism for a hundred years.

It’s still embarrassing with its politically correct laundry list:

http://www.usccb.org/

[Missouri gal]

You should have called the St. Joseph Foundation in San Antonio and asked them to assist you in making a formal complaint to the Vatican. Bishops do NOT have a free hand to slander their flock. As in any court of law, of course, you need documentation, but if somebody was willing to certify a letter stating what they told you the Bishop had said about you, plus other witnesses certifying what you said and when that got you in trouble with him in the first place, that would be pretty convincing in Rome.

[workerbee]

Good for him, if he actually mentions Obama by name. I think that’s necessary, so parishioners can’t pretend to themselves that they don’t know which candidate is pro-abortion.

I've heard more politics from the pulpit in the past 3 months than in my entire 45 years. Last week, Father came "this close" to calling out Obama and our state Congressional people by name.

If only, going forward, they would make it a common practice to give those types of strong, decisive, Church-in-the-modern-world homilies -- you know, much like the dreaded, monthly "contemporary music" Mass. Had they been doing that for the past 25 years, we wouldn't be in the predicament we're in.

[jobim]

I have been a donor to the great St. Joseph Foundation. The
statement about being safe with children was told to me by the
Deacon principal a few years after the fact; he didn't have
the heart to tell me at the time. And the fact that he removed
me from teaching religion is entirely within his purview.
Because I have always stood for orthodoxy, and battled the hierarchy
here, he could easily trump up anything to give as cause.

Two years ago when an excellent Catholic prolife Lt Gov
was running to be gov against the 100% pro-abortion
Abercrombie, a woman asked to say a few words after Mass,
and spoke about a teenage girl's thoughts about being
prolife. No mention of party, or candidate. The priest,
filling in at that parish, was diocesan vicar, 2nd in command
to the bishop. As soon as she started to speak, he became visibly
upset, and then came across the altar to the podium, asked her
to leave, scolded her to the congregation, and said there is separation
of church and state. That would have been this weekend coming
up in 2010. In January, two months later, that very same priest went to work for
Abercrombie, leaving the priesthood in the process.

[topher]

He does have CSC after his name, meaning he is of the Congregation of the Holy Cross.

Ironic how Father John Jenkins (CSC), president of Notre Dame, and Bishop Dan Jenky (CSC) have similar names but very different views on Obama.

Maybe Father John Jenkins (CSC) has fired up the rest of the CSC congregation because of the scandal he caused at Notre Dame (having so many Catholics and Christians oppose the honor given Obama there).

With the name similarity, one might confuse the two...