Posted on 11/08/2001 10:12:29 AM PST by Aquinasfan
I was listening to an archived broadcast (10/29/01) of Catholic Answers today that featured Fr. Frank Pavone. He said that he's "in negotiations" with Cardinal Egan regarding remaining with Priests for Life in some capacity.
Even better, he mentioned that he has been working with a Catholic attorney regarding overturning Roe v. Wade. The attorney recommended the famous "rolling billboard" campaign. The lawyer researched how issues like slavery were overturned by the SC in the past. He determined that in every case the bulk of the population was presented with images of the injustice whether they liked it or not. And so the billboard campaign was devised.
The campaign consists of photos of aborted babies three months of age or less, the age when 90% of abortions occur, mounted on tractor-trailers. Then they roll. LET'S ROLL!
I noticed that you have referred to these several times in different threads. Why are you so fascinated by the death camp images? Do they somehow tie in with your fascination for dead fetuses? Do you get off on this sort of graphical carnage? Does real live carnage turn you on even more? What is your real motive here?
Have I? Where?
It may be that you're actually this obtuse. But I doubt it.
The soul is the substantial form of the body. A substantial form becomes actual when a compound substance is individuated materially. A soul comes into being at individuation. Individuation occurs at fertilization.
When you understand the Aristotelian/Thomistic definitions of substance/accident, and form/matter you will be able to see more easily that your position is incoherent.
Was he trying to do this originally through Priests for Life? If so, did the bishops kill the project? If so, that would be troubling. Until we know with certainty, however, we have to assume otherwise in charity.
This is the guy who left his U.S. Attorny job to start this truck campaign!
I see Pcl ranting in just about every Pro-Life thread.
Pcl is repulsed and disgusted by the bloody violence depicted in photos of aborted children
...but she's fine with the actual act.
To donate to the Center for Bioethical Reform to help support the trucks, go to http://www.abortionno.org
I hope this campaign grows.
Of course Law has much pull within the NCCB, and I suspect that Law and Mahoney urged Egan to reign in Fr. Pavone. These guys have no guts for real effective pro-life activism.
(That is a generous assessment. When I'm in a foul mood, I'd say its even worse than a lack of backbone, and borders on a complete inability to address mortal sin by the episcopacy due to rampant homosexual sin within its ranks. The evidence is there, see Roman Catholic Faithful's website. Of course, if it is happening, politicos with access to FBI raw files can use such data to blackmail bishops into silence and undercut the effective ministry of the likes of Fr Pavone. This is hard to hear, but the facts are there regarding the homosexual corruption of the episcopacy.)
This billboard campaign is exactly what we should be doing. The analogy with the civil rights campaign in the '60s is quite apt.
The only other pro-life activity that seems to be working to cut the abortion rate is the use of free ultrasound examinations at "crisis pregnancy centers." (FYI, CPC's should be referred to as pregnancy resource centers since there is nothing "critical" about a normal pregnancy).
As for the bishops' lack of backbone in fighting the evil of abortion, I was glad to hear that Archbishop Myers and other bishops of NJ had issued a letter to NJ Catholics before the NJ gubernatorial election encouraging them to vote pro-life. That is until my pastor had obtained a copy and pointed out that not even once was the word abortion mentioned. Talk about lukewarm. I am disappointed, but I am still hopeful that Myers will shake things up a bit around here. Time will tell.
61 posted on 12/3/01 10:29 PM Pacific by pcl"
Romulus, pcl is making this accusation all over the forum on every pro-life article that comes up. I consider that extremely interesting, it most likely says more about pcl than anything else it posts.
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