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
Didn't mince words, did he?
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WHOA!! Don't hold back now Bishop Doran, tell us how you really feel, LOL! Good for Bishop Doran for telling it like it is.
Wow! Well BE, I pinged you to this simply to bring us to common ground for a bit. Enjoy it while it lasts.
He's 100% correct on this one.
Homosexual agenda too.
A bishop who is....CATHOLIC!!
(breath of fresh air)
WOW!
Mahoney with brass nucks? More like a sliken glove.
By criticizing "no fault" divorce, the bishop is 100% SPOT ON: this is a criticism of a state granting a divorce for no other reason other than one person wants out of the marriage.
No-Fault Divorce = disposable marriage
The state, up until the 1950s, had always considered marriage to be an incredibly important institution that provided stability to society.
Today marriage is on par with the relationship between a pet and its owner.
ROTFL!! Don't hold back, Bishop Doran. Tell us what you REALLY think!
Outstanding column. Thanks for posting it.
Amen and God bless Bishop Doran.
Bravo! Pleasantly surprised.
Yes, it certainly is good. But I think he may have made a lot of other bishops unhappy. Let's keep Bishop Doran in our prayers, for the Enemy is sure to attack him now.
What a man! In Boston, we are blighted with clergy of "sophistication", "nuance" & "finesse".
There are reasonable secular arguments to allowing a marriage to be dissolved without declaration of fault by either party, if both parties seek dissolution on such terms.
On the other hand, I think the law should be written so that a party who seeks to leave a marriage without some reasonable showing of fault by the other party should be considered to be 100% at fault, and be treated as such.
Since a spouse is not a slave, it may not be possible to force someone not to leave because they get "bored", but there's no reason why a spouse who does so should be entitled to a house, car, alimony, children, child support, etc.
And for the party that embraced divorce and contraception, two of the evils he complained about. How can he condemn one party for those and not the other? One party just isn't quite as evil as the other I guess.
Tell me, why do you expect the Grand Old Party to be the Grand Old 100% Vatican Compliant Party? What mandate is there for that? Can you cite church law or Scripture to back your view up?
So is the GOP 80% compliant? 70%? 40%?
As I said, "the lesser evil" is an expression for children in an election year where we may get Speaker Pelosi.
If support for divorce and contraception make the Democrats evil then they must make the GOP evil as well. Otherwise why mention them in the same breath as abortion?
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