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Good Luck with your Monsignor.

I have been going to post the letter I wrote to each of our parish priests, including our Monsignor pastor about the fact that for the last three years there has not even been mention of October being Respect Life month, let alone any presence at the entrances of the volunteers (there are several) who cover the three parishes here in this valley.

At any rate I was totally frank with my disenchantment with my parish about never hearing a word from the pulpit against the sins that are comprised in the moral absolutes ... with an emphasis on abortion for the last three years. That is the length of time that we have had this pastor, perhaps slightly longer.

I copied and pasted the pictures of the Bishops we had on one thread and included the links to what they had said, and the excerpts from each.

I challenged respectfully their never preaching about any morality of any kind ... just that 60's version of Christ being Love and the variety of sermons which attended each Reading and Gospel for the day/week.

Incredibly, I was answered via email by Monsignor "Steve". His answer had to do with the Democrats being "into" the charitable share the wealth thing and he regretted that I might find it difficult to vote for the Democrats because of their support of some things which (unnamed, mind you) might be offensive to a Catholic. He never mentioned abortion except to allude to the fact that he had never received an instruction to so preach against the baby killer we now have. He said he could not preach against anyone without the President of the California Bishops instructing him to do so.

Anyway, this has filled my heart with terrific sadness and I expected that Obama would win because I felt there was so much prayer missing from where I live and worship.

Well, that is the basic fact of what happened in my Parish (one of the largest in the nation) and I can't tell you how my prayers have been infected by this omission here at "home". Father Steve called me by name and was very friendly in the letter, but missed or remissed the point of my letter.

I am sorry to have gone on so -- but I have wanted to share ... and frogjerk's post just compelled me to respond.

What are we going to do, my Catholic and Evangelical and Christian and Jewish brothers and sisters? We must do something and I am struck dumb as to the right approach to such monumental threats to our beloved country and to the world.