Posted on 02/14/2007 8:30:18 AM PST by Diago
Here is another little tidbit about Plain Dealer columnist, Regina Brett. On Jan. 19, 2003, for the thirtieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Brett wrote a column entitled "A simple and complicated act." In this article, Brett gave her eyewitness account of a teenager's abortion. Brett accompanied the seventeen-year-old girl and her mother to the clinic and even stayed in the examining room with the girl while the abortion was performed. She wrote, “I secretly hope she will change her mind and jump up off the table. I want to stop her, but it’s not my place, so I pray for her and the baby, and, as I do, I realize that she’s been praying all along. The decision to have an abortion is said to be between a woman and her doctor. Perhaps it’s really between a woman and her God.” Brett concludes her article by saying, “The teenager knows that she has ended a life. She wants to make peace with it, to pray for it, to say goodbye to that life, and to start hers.”
In other words, Brett gave aid and comfort to a girl during her abortion. She sat back and literally watched while the baby was sucked out of this young mother. She was, in fact, formally complicit in this girl's act. Then she wrote this self-serving article, justifying the girl's abortion as a "simple" but "complicated" decision. Anyone who helps someone else procure an abortion incurs an automatic excommunication. Yet Brett continues to trumpet her loyalty to the Church and to receive Communion at her parish.
I recently wrote to Bishop Lennon about Brett and included copies not only of Brett's article about women's ordination but also the article on Brett's trip to the abortion clinic. Let's hope that this bishop censures this loud-mouthed dissenter.
SQ: Why would we??
And thus I have to turn Titanites' question back around to you:
Why should anyone other than Catholics (and that term includes the Orthodox) come to the defense when something vile has been posted here about the BVM or any other saint?
You understanding of Catholicism is sorely deficient. The word "ignorant" is fitting but cannot be appropriately applied on this forum.
Are Catholics known to come to the defense when something vile has been posted here about Joseph Smith or Alexander Campbell?
I really don't know since I can't recall something vile being posted about them. But I suspect not since Joseph Smith and Alexander Campbell are uniquely associated with specific denominations. However, the BVM is the Mother of Jesus and is common to all who are Christians. The Mother of Jesus should be respected by all Christians, but rather there are those "Christians" who do just the opposite.
Is Joseph Smith and Campbell like The Bless Virgin Mary or a Saint?
WHO IS CAMPBELL???
Not a saint or akin to the BVM, but definitely similar in that he is unique to a particular group/confession. If you're having trouble with the Campbell comparison itself, then forget him and focus on Joseph Smith in comparison to the BVM. It's probably a better comparison anyway.
Barring that, I offer this advice: It would benefit you greatly to get a little education re post-Reformation church history, especially if you plan on challenging non-Catholic Christians to tow certain theological lines here on FR. I'm rather ornery about not doing other peoples' homework myself.
The Blessed Virgin Mary is the MOTHER OF GOD and you are comparing Joseph Smith to Our Lady?? One of us needs a nap!
Your suspicions are correct - in my experience, Catholics never come to the defense when vile postings are made against individuals or beliefs held important by other Christians or by Mormons.
Why should you take umbrage when no one comes to your defense, when you don't offer the same courtesy to others?
Then I would strongly encourage you to post to/read Catholic Devotional and Caucus Threads exclusively, and stay off all other threads.
WHO IS CAMPBELL?
Her "remedy" has destroyed the Episcopal Church US.
Google is your friend
You can't even answer a question where you brought up a name.....why not?
I didn't bring up the name, Alex Murphy did, and I expect him to answer....thank you very much.
Because you've already said you could care less.
You brought his name up bub, I didn't.
Uh, I don't take umbrage when no one comes to my defense.
Now, as far as the Mother of Jesus, who will be called blessed by all generations, I take umbrage when some "Christians" don't see fit to come to her defense. When the BVM is vilified, her defense is primarily left to the Catholics with little support from non-Catholics (disclaimer - I understand I am painting with a pretty broad brush and I realize there are some non-Catholics who do defend the BVM).
They just wanna fight.
Have you ever heard of Campbell?
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