Here in NE the Catholic church has been riding and pushing the ‘social justice’ over and above any anti-abortion message. The message is clear by implication - don’t be afraid of ‘change’, embrace ‘hope and change’, you must protect the environment and oh yes, don’t forget to increase your donation.
Today’s (Sunday) edition of the Boston Globe has an article commenting on the evolving ‘love-fest’ between Cardinal O’Malley and the aggressively pro-abortion (and I believe “Catholic’) Mayer Menino. The article made the point that O’Malley despite earlier objection to the pro-abortion position, the two are great friends and partners now.
Given the message from the pulpit and our own little parish in New Hampshire, I find the 55% vote for the Big O - is definitely believable and is NOT just immigrants. Friends in parishes in upstate NY, OHIO, etc. are all seeing the same leftist crap. Refusing to recognize the take over by the ‘Pink Mafia’ in our seminiaries and episicopate is what led to the abuse problem. Don’t let it happen again.
All very true.
Let's keep this in perspective, though. Even if we accept, for the sake of argument, the findings of the notoriously biased exit polls, Pew reports that those in the "White Protestant/Other Christian" category voted 65-34 for McCain, while the "White Catholic" group voted 52-47 for McCain.
McCain won both groups.
We should not underestimate the extent to which misguided racial solidarity influenced many Obama supporters, Catholic and non-Catholic alike.
I agree. I remember that for a long period of time, most homilies were about "social justice," to the detriment of teaching Catholic doctrine and practices.
I got sick and tired of hearing about it, and feeling guilty that I wasn't picking lettuce with migrant workers.
As a result of this lib focus, there are people who do not know that they must do something penitential in nature EVERY Friday. All they know is that it's ok to eat meat.
You make a great point. We've encountered some of the same problem in our Baptist churches.