Posted on 08/20/2020 6:41:42 PM PDT by marshmallow
Denver Newsroom, Aug 20, 2020 / 10:52 am MT (CNA).-
Sister Simone Campbell, who is set to offer a prayer at the Democratic National Convention Thursday, has declined to take a stand on the morality of abortion protections, and a CNA examination finds donors to her organization, Network Lobby, have links to pro-abortion rights advocacy.
Asked Aug. 19 whether her organization opposes the legal protection of abortion, Campbell told CNA, “That is not our issue. That is not it. It is above my pay grade.”
“It’s not the issue that we work on. I’m a lawyer. I would have to study it more intensely than I have,” Campbell added.
Campbell, 74, is a member and past general director of the Sisters of Social Service, a Catholic religious community. She is the executive director of the Network Lobby for Catholic Social Justice, and received her law degree from the University of California-Davis School of Law in 1977.
During a 2016 interview with Democracy Now, Campbell said more directly that “From my perspective, I don’t think it’s a good policy to outlaw abortion.”
“Our agenda is the economic justice issues,” she told CNA this week. “As the issues of economic justice mean, as Pope Francis talks about so often, the capacity for families to be able to support themselves, to be able to have a roof on their head. A radical thought is that they ought to be able to earn enough from one job to both have time for leisure for a family together as well the capacity to save for the future.”
Campbell is scheduled to deliver the invocation Thursday at the Democratic National Convention. The convention’s announcement cited her group's work on economic justice, health care, immigration reform, and voter turnout as well as its “Nuns on the Bus”......
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If she truly believes in God, He has no “pay grades.” Our Lord and Savior doesn’t consider things like that.
At least that’s what I believe. I believe in Him.
Abortion is murder. I am sorry but I feel that way.
That’s why I was a virgin until I was 23. LOL!
My first “boyfriend” asked me, once when we were kissing, if I would have an abortion.
Out of the blue, I said “No.”
Maybe it was because I was reading the Bible at the time. But it just came out.
I’ve never regretted it.
Their views don’t align with reality.
Jobs that anyone can do do not pay as much as jobs very few people can do.
Also jobs that are not in high demand cannot command as much money as those in high demand.
For almost all of human history there was zero concept of “leisure time”
leisure time was “sleep”
They are so disconnected from the real world
You are absolutely right, Friend.
Take care.
:)
It certainly has.
A few years ago, I was feeling suicidal. I spoke with my priest and he said, “Julie. You know where those thoughts come from. They come from the Evil One.” He wants you to kill yourself. You must fight back.
Best advice I ever got.
She is 74. She is a nun. And she says she has to study the abortion problem more intensely to have an opinion. What a bunch of progg gobbledygook.
Just what is it with these nuns? With few exceptions, the ones I have run into have been hard left and signed on to liberation theology. The late Mother Angelica of EWTN seems to be the exception these days rather than the rule.
She steal Obama’s line?
Satan’s Nun loves the murder of innocent little preborn babies.
Came to post this.
If she does not have the knowledge at this point I am afraid she is mentally incompetent, or lying.
The “above my pay grade” abortion cop-out was from Obama. She simply plagiarized what he said.
Check your “Operations Manual” It may be many pages, but I bet you can find something in there on the topic, you twisted Sister.
SR.DONNA QUINN actually was an ESCORT at a Chicago Planned Parenthood clinic.....
If I had been the interviewer, I would have instantly shot back with:
Sister, just two questions:
1. What is the official stance of the Catholic Church with regards to abortion?
2. Sister, are you a member in good standing of the Catholic Church (i.e., do you stand behind its doctrine)?
Regards,
Yep.
Abortion is not wrong because of Church doctrine. It’s Church doctrine because it’s wrong.
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