I never thought that you would be bamboozled into the old media trick of shifting blame, but oh how you have! So, it’s the Catholic Church’s fault that the Obama administration is compelling forced abortion/concentration on the nation? That’s rich!
Have many U.S. bishops fallen prey to liberalism in the last 50 or so years? Unfortunately, they have, as have too many Americans. Yet to posit that the Church is in bed with the modern Democrat party is a joke. The Church is the only worldwide entity that stands athwart their main pillars: abortion, gay marriage and euthanasia.
By the way, the Church’s main goal is not, as you have claimed, charity. It is the saving of souls...you can look it up.
As far as Pelosi, Biden, Kerry, etc., it is also the job of the Church to call sinners back to the Faith, not to drive them away. Do I wish the aforementioned politicians were publicly excommunicated? Sure, but according to Canon Law, they have already incurred what is called latae sententiae excommunicatio, which is the same sentence, but self-imposed. It doesn’t matter where they sit in Church or even at a Papal audience; their reception of the Sacraments is illicit and can only lead them into further sin.
The author of the piece you are reading should try and find a devout Catholic parish if he wishes to hear the Faith taught in the proper way; there are many, many in this country; even right here in the liberal Northeast. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem he has tried too hard.
Rush, the new leadership of the USCCB is very much anti-socialist, as has been the Universal Church worldwide. Before you read out an indictment against a fading breed of 1960s American bishops as representative of the Church, do some research please!
There are very many conservative Catholics in this country: just look to the SCOTUS or to the many recent converts to the faith among the conservative punditry or to two of the four remaining presidential candidates.
Please, don’t fall prey to the liberal media tactic of blaming the victims. The Church, going forward, may indeed lose many, many members who wear their Catholicism like a piece of clothing to be changed and discarded at a whim, but those of the true Faith will continue to uphold and defend it, come what may.
Then explain this:
If you take the time to read the WHOLE statement you will notice how very much it sounds like a socialist manifesto.
I have a question. When the Catholic Church and Archbishop Dolan had their original negotiations with the dems and then supported obamacare, did they ONLY negotiate for themselves to the exclusion of all the rest of us who vehemently disagree with ALL of it?
And now it’s only Catholics who they think were betrayed? Didn’t they recognize the devil when they agreed to cover the Crucifix for obama to speak at Notre Dame?
We need to make a distinction between the Catholic Church and the individual bishops who hold office from time to time. What the author is positing — and I support him — is that for the past 50 years the Catholic bishops in the U.S. have departed from true Catholic teaching to find a quick fix in Democrat politics. The body of the bishops, however, has a constantly changing membership. Today’s bishops are a different body than those of years past. It is to be hoped that today’s bishops wake up and reject the accommodation of their recent predecessors and return to the strong and vocal body that is their historical character.
Thou doest protest too much. Read a little Hayek. the catholic church has sided with social welfare - even now they side with illegal immigration - but those that have done it failed to see the logical conclusion that would be reached. Too bad.