Posted on 08/16/2006 5:00:49 PM PDT by wagglebee
ROCKFORD, August 16, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Abortion, buggery, contraception, divorce, euthanasia, radical feminism, genetic experimentation and mutilation, are the seven “sacraments” of “one” US political party says the Bishop of the Catholic diocese of Rockford Illinois.
While stopping short of telling his flock how to vote, and without naming the Democrats by name, Bishop Thomas George Doran wrote in a column in the local diocesan newspaper that these “unholy sacraments of our secular culture are the seeds of the destruction of our nation.” He said that the continuance in office of those espousing them represent a “clear and present danger” to the survival of the US as a nation.
Bishop Doran, leader of the Rockford diocese's 418,891 Catholics exhorts voters to “think for yourself” and ask, “what nation that kills its young, perverts marriage, prevents new life, and destroys the family, kills those deemed useless, makes the war of the sexes into a real war, and manipulates the genetic basis of human nature, can long endure?”
He writes that while looking “askance” at the German people for their historical role in the deaths of 50 million people during the Nazi period, we in North America have blinded ourselves to the deaths of 40 million of unborn citizens since 1973. “No doubt,” he says, “we shall soon outstrip the Nazis in doing human beings to death.”
He describes a slippery slope that begins with toleration of the killing of “the tiniest innocents among us,” and leads to habituation to violence in other forms. “we have allowed these barbaric practices to corrupt our laws, our medical practice, and even our ordinary lives.”
He lists toleration for sexual perversions, “widespread contraception, easy access to “no fault” divorce, the killing of the elderly, radical feminism, embryonic stem cell research” as things that “defile and debase our human nature and our human destiny.”
Read Bishop Doran’s column:
http://www.rockforddiocese.org/observer/observer.asp
To contact Bishop Doran:
555 Colman Center Drive
P.O. Box 7044
Rockford, IL 61125
Telephone: (815) 399-4300
FAX: (815) 399-5266
Perfect!
This is a MUST read, this bishop nails it!
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The Republicans only embrace contraception and divorce, so I guess that makes them the lesser of two evils?
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Oops there goes their tax-exempt status once the thugs--oops gubmint gets ahold of that article.
Just Damn. My new favorite Bishop. And I thought the guy in the Denver Archdiocese was good.
Salvation, what say you?
You might enjoy this.
He left out evolutionism.
I think this should be in the News section as well as the Religion section. It needs the exposure because we are going to have to protect his flank.
Are you talking about Chaput?
Not too often, but every once in a while, it's gotta be fun being a bishop. What a GUY!
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Yes! You go Bish.
Depending on the type of contraception used, that doesn't seem as bad as abortion and abortafacients.
I'll go with the principle of double effect and vote Republican or not vote at all. I can't in good conscience vote for any Democrat, no matter how good they might be personally, because of what their party sanctions and stands for today, not all of it is that bad, but the bad is just too bad.
The Republicans are culpable in killing, too, especially the disabled and elderly, and some of them are pro choice.
Chaput is the Denver Bishop. But I was pinging you to this so you could see what Bishop Doran had to say.
Just MO.
Rock on my Catholic brother.
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