Posted on 04/04/2023 6:27:12 PM PDT by marshmallow
St. Louis, Mo., Apr 3, 2023 / 14:00 pm (CNA). The Diocese of Madison clarified late last week that the Church does not endorse nor oppose specific political candidates after a Wisconsin pastor urged parishioners in his weekly parish bulletin message to vote against state Supreme Court candidate Janet Protasiewicz, who is openly pro-abortion.
“The Catholic Church’s involvement in public life doesn’t extend to endorsing candidates for election to public office nor calling for their defeat and thus refrains from partisan political activities. The Church does encourage voter registration and encourages Catholics, as citizens, to vote and to be civically engaged,” the diocese said in a statement sent to CNA.
“However, the Church also has both a duty and a right to call attention to the moral and religious dimensions of public issues, measuring social policies and political activities against the natural moral law and Gospel values. Since the first century, the Church has consistently affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law in its respect for all human life.”
The diocese’s response comes after Father Brian Dulli, pastor of St. Patrick’s Church in Cottage Grove, Wisconsin, urged his parishioners to vote against the pro-abortion candidate in Tuesday’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election, a race that observers say could have major effects on the legality of abortion in the state.
As reported by Wisconsin Public Radio, an attorney with the activist group Freedom from Religion Foundation, which is based in Madison, wrote to the IRS last week to complain about the bulletin, asking the IRS to revoke St. Patrick’s 501(c)3 nonprofit status.
The April 4 election is between former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Daniel Kelly and current.........
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Evil wins when those of good heart are silenced by those who wear the ‘cloth’.
Just look at the results so far. It’s 8:45 EST. NYT has Protasiewicz with 58%. We may as well drop dead.
A Catholic cannot support abortion, and a Catholic cannot support the death penalty. Period!
If you support one over the other, you are not a Catholic. You are either a Protestant or a heathen. Period!
Abortion is an intrinsic evil
A good priest MUST speak against it and anyone who openly promotes it.
That's incorrect.
That is not correct.
That's B.S.
This provision of non-profit status is blatantly unconstitutional.
If a political activist group can be non-profit how can they say with a straight face that a religious organization can not make political statements?
WTH are you talking about?? Catholics CAN and DO support the death penalty.......you are following Cardinal Bernadin....who was NOT the holiest!!
I totally support the death penalty.. Then again, I’m a latent Catholic. My father and mother were staunch Catholics... Always went to church and they were true believers. They didn’t support abortion, didn’t support the death penalty.
They were perfect Catholics... I haven’t been to church for so long that I’m pretty much a heathen by now... So I feel perfectly free to be a hypocrite and support the death penalty, and appose abortion.
I go every day, my parents were staunch CATHOLICS, and we al supported the death penalty.
It was NEVER a big issue until Bernadin....HUGE LEFTY!
Church’s sold their souls when they agreed to shut up to keep their tax exempt status.
True.
, and a Catholic cannot support the death penalty. Period!
False.
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