Posted on 06/09/2003 1:35:37 PM PDT by Coleus
Therefore I testify to you this day
that I am innocent of the blood of all of you,
for I did not shrink from declaring to you
the whole counsel of God.
LORD,
are You seen today in Your
preborn children?
If so, why have we Catholics allowed since 1973, more than 40 million such children in the United States to be horribly murdered without even anesthesia, by chemical poisoning, by saline burning, and by surgical dismemberment, right up to the time of birth? Are we concerned that these cold, brutal acts continue to be done at a rate of more than 4000 per day in this country? Will the Lord ask us one day what we did to stop this slaughter?
Is it a coincidence that abortion was legalized here after the United States Catholic bishops failed to proclaim and defend the teaching of the Church expressed in Humanae Vitae? Perhaps the answer is that we had no legal abortion before this collapse of authority because Catholic bishops would not stand for it, and politicians realized that fact.
Today there are “Catholic” politicians who say they are personally opposed to abortion, but who vote to continue these murders. Should they be publicly excommunicated? There are twelve of them in the U.S. Senate today, and one of them is from “Catholic” Louisiana. Are many bishops today, such as Archbishop Alfred Hughes of New Orleans, leading the church militant, or the church passive, in the face of this monstrous evil?
About excommunication, Archbishop Hughes has stated:
“There’s a public dimension to this, and a private dimension, so this is a matter for prudential judgment.”
“Bishops weigh these carefully in search of what is best in each situation for the community in their care.”[1]
This “weighing” goes on and on, while at least ten preborn children are viciously murdered every working day in the New Orleans area. How much more time is needed for this careful weighing by the archbishop, when this killing has continued for thirty (30) years?
Somebody has to do something to wake up the bishops. But what?
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[1] Statement by Fr. William Maestri, archdiocesan spokesman, quoted in The Times-Picayune, May 10, 2003
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No that won't happen, Kennedy keeps getting elected one, because of he last name and second, because of his seniority in the senate .. he brings alot of money to the state
Then there are all the unions
But kicking Kennedy out, sure would send a message
You're wound way too tight, my friend.
What should scare them is the justice that is both inescapable and everlasting--the justice brought on by lack of justice here on earth.
Lots of Catholics, especially those around Boston, would point to bishops who transferred abusive priests and ask "Where is the justice for them"?
I suspect the reason the Catholic bishops are laying low is that they have every reason to, given their mafia-like behavior in regards to clerical predators.
If excommunication means nothing to you, then the Holy Sacrements mean nothing to you.
They should be excommunicated because they do not belong in the Church, not because it is some means of temporal duress.
You've lost your compass.
Perhaps you could post the last "letter to the editor" you've written about abortion.
Post it right here.
Please post that public statement, right here.
I can't speak for sinkspur .. but I think he is looking at the catholic community in general
We may not like it, but the fact is that a number of them are liberal
They may never have an abortion themselves .. but they don't want to tell someone else not to.
It means something to me; it means nothing to Massachusetts Catholics.
Hell, Teddy Kennedy KILLED a woman, and he was reelected overwhelmingly!
You've lost your compass.
Nah. I've always despised Teddy Kennedy, and Mary Landrieu, and Tom Daschle.
(And if it means so little to Teddy, why would he use such high-torque influence to keep the MA 'Church' on his side?)
Besides, why not deny them even the pretense of being 'Catholic?'
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Are you saying to kick them all out?
That won't happen .. there are too many of them
I'm familiar with that letter. Nowhere in it does the bishop say that Daschle is forbidden from receiving the sacraments of the Catholic Church.
If he can receive the sacraments, he's not excommunicated.
The bishop simply asks that Daschle not publicly associate himself with the Church.
Why are you so pissed all the time, Thorondir?
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