Cardinal Ratzinger (now the Pope) wrote in his letter to Cardinal McCarrick back in 2004:
“A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to present himself for Holy Communion, if he were to deliberately vote for a candidate precisely because of the candidate’s permissive stand on abortion and/or euthanasia. When a Catholic does not share a candidate’s stand in favor of abortion and/or euthanasia, but votes for that candidate for other reasons, it is considered remote material cooperation, which can be permitted in the presence of proportionate reasons.”
Did you see this? Michael Brown’s site”
“You may have heard of Fr. Tom DiLorenzo, a charismatic priest from Boston who has been on the radio for over 20 years,” comes an e-mail from Massachusetts. “He has a real prophetic gift as well as the gift of healing. As I listened this morning, Father Tom preached from Ezekiel 33 about the ‘watchman on the wall.’ He warned us of a vision he had in 1995, that he has already been preaching about for several years, which happened as follows:
“He had just been on a pilgrimage in France and went into a restaurant. He was very tired and closed his eyes for a minute and then described what he said was something like ‘Venetian blinds opening in front of me.’ What he saw next was the Titanic sinking, and the lifeboats were coming to try to rescue the people, but they couldn’t get the people into the boats. He interpreted that as ‘the world economic system going into the drink.’ The lifeboats represented the Church, and they didn’t know how to get the people into the boats. He said he could be wrong, of course, but he believed that this will happen. It may not be in ‘the next few months,’ but it is ‘on the horizon.’ He also believes this crisis is preparing the way for the coming of the Antichrist, and that one of the two politicians’: who will be elected is not the Antichrist, but may be the puppet of the Antichrist. That wasn’t part of the prophecy, just his take on what’s going on now. His point was this: the Church in America isn’t ready for what’s coming. We don’t know how to do without; we’re too soft. We need to get on our knees and pray and fast, or we won’t be able to help the people when things really start to go sour...”
Things that make you go Hmmmmmmm.....
A democrat majority in Congress and democrat president could pass a whole lot of mischief in bills that put the force of law behind their ideology.
And, we aren’t ready.
It depends on the meaning of “proportionate.”
What is proportionate with killing millions of innocent babies every year and the intention of making that permanent for our lifetimes?
One might have an argument if McCain were also an extreme abortion supporter, or proposed to murder several million innocent people every year. But otherwise, not.