I know I have posted this several times, but I urge all of the faithful to send some correspondence to the Holy Father. It is my belief that as the pope of the church universal, he cannot and does not know everything that goes on everywhere. I also think that there are many who are not telling him all he needs to know in the curia. There are about 60 million catholics here, out of over 1 BILLION catholics worldwide. They get much of their money from the US, so if something is going to cause a stir here, the Pope may not be in the loop as much as we would hope. Remember, about 1/3 of the clergy is corrupt, or so it is assumed. Take the time to write his holiness, let him know. Anyone who want to use my letter to save time has my permission and thanks for taking the time to send our holy father a message. If writing your own, please remember who he is, and like when we write our politicians, bashing, hating, cursing won’t make us look good. Thank you!
Holy Father,
I am writing from the United States about a very serious issue. My heart is breaking for the unborn. We now have a president that believes a baby is punishment, yet he feels it is above his paygrade to know when life begins. Catholic teaching has not been what it should be in the last 50 years. We have a huge amount of nominal Catholics in the US, and they will only vote based on their feelings about issues, not fundamental truths.
In part, this is because of our many “catholic” politicians who are able to straddle both sides of the fence. They claim to be practicing Catholics, but they hold beliefs and condone and support practices that are completely incompatible with Catholic teaching. They then can go to Mass, receive communion, and claim the Church has not truly defined the issue on abortion, gay marriage, etc. This is patently false. They are lying and getting away with it. They claim because there has been no ex cathedra statement on abortion, there is still discussion about it.
We are unfortunately a very letter of the law people. While this is good when just laws are made and followed, it is also a loophole that politicians play with to pander for votes. Abortion is one of those rules. Coupled with a poorly catechised populace in the US, our legislators are able to straddle the abortion issue to garner votes, and yet still publically practice their faith. They have been able to do this without interference from the Holy See for far too long now.
While many bishops have begun to speak up against this issue, nothing would give them the support in the fight they need like a defined Papal pronouncement from the Chair of Peter. Seeing as this issue is definative already, it would clarify to millions of Catholics that it is binding on the Church Universal that abortion IS murder, it IS an excommunicable offense, and would publically call out our politicians like the Kennedy family, Joe Biden, our new Vice President, and Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, who has publically challenged the Church on its stand on abortion against her own bishop, who pander to nominal Catholics for votes by confusing them on this issue.
I beg you Holy Father, please crush the head of this snake. The devil has a great foothold in this area in the United States. The bishops are impotent against it because the majority stood silent for so long. Now they are doing much more, but their voices go unheeded until Our Holy Father declares the matter settled and binding on the whole Church.
Nancy Pelosi is travelling to Rome this week. It is said she is having a meeting with you. I pray that this is to inform her that this pronouncement is coming from you, so she had better prepare herself based on this. Money, power, tax exemptions for Churches should not be allowed to influence a decision on faith and morals, and we will stand with you and fight to the death under the banner of Christ. Please Holy Father, I implore you, declare this holocaust against the unborn, embryonic stem cell research, birth control, and human cloning as a matter binding on the whole Church. Christ will hold us accountable for this blood, not political wrangling. 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust is 6 million too many. The outcry for the recent events , while legitimate, just points to the fact that so many people are so woefully uneducated about a holocaust that has taken 9 times the lives of innocents over the last 30 years!
May God and the blood of the innocents be your only guide on your decision.
Strong letter. Did you send by email or post? Do you think a written (snail mail on paper) letter has more impact, or does it not matter with probably the deluge coming into the Vatican from both methods?
For those who feel too intimidated to write the Pope, it is perfectly reasonable to write our Papal Nuncio, it is his job to convey to His Holiness what is happening in the USA (and he also plays a major role in selecting the bishops, so letting him know we’d like a few more with balls - not in those words! - may be good too).