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Bishop Seitz: Single-issue voting has corrupted Christian political witness

Francisbishop Seitz will bend a knee for BLM and ANTIFA, but will not bend a knee in front of abortion clinics for the unborn babies, both black and white.

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Barf Alert Ping

[RetiredTexasVet]

Solidarity in Suffering

When you see the term Solidarity you know you are dealing with a communist.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Stopped reading at “The Jesuit Review.”

Jesuits are NOT Catholic.

I know because I went to an all-boy Jesuit high school.

They do like little boys, though.

[ifinnegan]

They think they can earn salvation.

Also, lack logic. His example refugee would be safe in Mexico too. Doesn’t need to enter the U.S. illegally.

[Freee-dame]

Nor for religious freedom in the USA. Sick, misguided or evil ?

[Kickass Conservative]

Christians are supposed to believe in Trespassing?

[rhinohunter]

I bet this Bishop was very distressed to see last night’s Telemundo poll...

[marshmallow]

What if the "single issue" was killing people in gas chambers rather than abortion clinics?

Would voting against that be considered "partisan alignment" and a distortion of the Church's "integral ethic of human life"?

[Flavious_Maximus]

“... traveled with her family 2,000 miles to the U.S. border ...”

This means they continued traveling onward, passing many other countries. Why didn’t they go travel to Europe or Canada, or Australia or Japan?

We know the answer. They come to the USA for government WELFARE!

These ‘immigrants’ are LEACHES, PARASITES, SUCCUBI!

[Rocky Mountain Wild Turkey]

"The church is not engaged in shoring up the political agendas of either party. The followers of Jesus are washed in the waters of baptism that bring forth a new community of radical inclusivity that transcends narrow self-concern, elitist social division and arbitrary political boundaries. We are fed at the table of the Lord, where we learn a new logic of radical hospitality, mutual sustenance, reconciliation and forgiveness that prophetically challenges every bigotry and every decision that puts markets before people. We are responsible for one another, and we need each other. And so we will always stand in solidarity with those whose lives are made fragile and bring their suffering before the tribunals of power."

... smh ...

This Roman Knight has had it:

[rhinohunter]

They can’t even see what the democrats are doing to this country. All they see is Orange Man bad.

A lot like this guy...

[fieldmarshaldj]

Embracing an evil, racist, Marxist cult. This fraud should be defrocked, he is not a Christian.

[EnquiringMind]

I saw this article on Facebook earlier. My holy-roller “Catholic Democrat” relative posted it. Catholic democrats need guys like this bishop to ease their minds.

[aposiopetic]

As you know, E.T., I'm no moral theologian, but I did want to point out a few aspects of Bishop Seitz's article (?) that raised questions in my mind:

Our commitment is not to the abstractions of party platforms but to the particularity of the human suffering in our midst and the concrete possibilities for a project of solidarity and human emancipation before us.

"[A] project of solidarity and human emancipation" still sounds rather abstract.

Accordingly, the high ideals of our country are best reflected in the accomplishments of those like...Cesar Chavez....

Cesar Chavez was, at least at times, quite vehement in his opposition to illegal immigration: https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/cesar-chavezs-rabid-opposition-to-illegal-immigration-not-covered-in-new-movie-6643666.

reconciliation and forgiveness that prophetically challenges every bigotry and every decision that puts markets before people

This is a false dichotomy. As Professor Pakaluk quite effectively pointed out in an essay published yesterday at The Catholic Thing, people who are flourishing engage in markets, and there is a human impulse to participate in markets not just to fulfill our own desires but to make society better, to strengthen the bonds of community.

[oldbill]

"President Donald Trump has voiced his support for unborn life and taken steps toward defending life, like the reinstatement of the Mexico City Policy. Likewise, he has taken positive steps to protect religious liberties. But the president has also tainted the pro-life cause with the individualism and cult of wealth, greed and celebrity that very quickly erode solidarity and cheapen life. And he has undermined the foundational importance of religious liberty with actions like travel bans targeting Muslims. Supported by a pagan aesthetic of self-assertion and buoyed by a destructive politics of fear and xenophobia, his administration has encouraged the worst expressions of nativism. And this is dangerously taxing the durability of our democratic institutions."

Not a single statement in that paragraph is true.

[Albion Wilde]

Summary: blahblahblahblahorangemanbad.