The Fruit of 40 Years of Shepherds Failing to Be Shepherds
At this point, Obama is making it clear what he thinks about the Catholic Church. Real Catholics are not welcome. The responsibility for this mess lies at the feet of every Bishop who has refused to do the right thing. Cowardice, fear of losing donors (money), not really being Pro-Life, whatever the reason, they will have to answer for this some day.
When Ananias & Saphira lied to Pope Peter about the amount of a donation they were struck dead. (Acts 5) The result: "And a great fear came upon the whole church and on all who heard it." Today, most Bishops are afraid to excommunicate or at least ban Pro-abortion Catholics from receiving Communion. They say they don't want to politicize it. Well, I have news for them, it already has been, by those Pro-Abortion Catholics who use the fact that they have gotten away with murder to justify their claim they are Catholics in good standing. Every time they go to Communion they are making a political statement to that fact.
By Kathleen Gilbert
WASHINGTON, D.C., January 6, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - With the appointment of Leon Panetta as the new head of the CIA, president-elect Barack Obama has continued a trend of appointing pro-abortion “Catholics” to high-profile positions in his government. Some pro-life leaders fear that these highly public Catholic dissidents could deal a serious blow to the pro-life Catholic image in America.
Panetta, a practicing Catholic who teaches a course each year at the Jesuit-run Santa Clara University, accumulated a strong pro-abortion record as a California congressman, including co-sponsoring the Freedom of Choice Act in 1990. During his run as Clinton's Chief of Staff, he supported the president's veto of the partial-birth abortion ban.
Panetta joins the ranks of a growing list of Catholic Obama picks who openly reject the Catholic Church's pro-life teachings. The highest-ranking among these is VP-elect Joe Biden, who on Meet the Press in 2007 incorrectly asserted that his pro-abortion position is allowed by Church teaching, a remark that incited a barrage of rebukes from dozens of U.S. bishops. Biden's bishop has, however, so far refused to formally excommunicate him, although the VP-elect is considered automatically excommunicated by virtue of his support for abortion.
Former Senate Majority leader Tom Daschle, who is preparing to take over as Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Obama White House, is a professed Catholic who as a congressman tenaciously pursued and defended unrestricted abortion. Demands for Daschle’s formal excommunication have also been denied so far, although according to an April 2003 article in the Weekly Standard he was informally ordered by his diocese to cease his public association with the Church.
Obama recently selected as the next DNC chairman Democratic Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, a Catholic who rejected the death penalty by invoking the Catholic belief that "life is sacred," yet who supports Roe v. Wade for protecting the "personal liberty" to choose abortion. (OK Mr. "Life is Sacred", explain your I'm against the death penalty for an adult but am fine with it for over 3200 unborn children every day!)
Last month, Sen. Ken Salazar, another pro-abortion Catholic, was announced as Obama's future Secretary of the Interior. The Democratic senator endorsed government funding for Planned Parenthood and voted against prohibiting minors from dodging abortion restrictions in their home state by obtaining abortions in neighboring states.
Though New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson recently refused his nomination as Commerce Secretary due to a looming corruption scandal, he was on track to rounding out Obama's Cabinet as a Catholic who claims to be personally opposed to abortion despite being named a "Champion of Choice" by NARAL in 2007 for his efforts in spreading abortion.
Though some U.S. bishops have publicly denounced dissident Catholics, and corrected erroneous statements by Daschle and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi about Church teachings on life, few have said they would go so far as to deny communion to such politicians. Many bishops, perhaps most notably Biden's own, Bishop Malooly, have insisted that while they disagree with certain statements by the pro-abortion politicians, formal excommunication or refusal of communion, as required by Canon law, would only "politicize" the Eucharist.
Jim Hughes, president of the Campaign Life Coalition, told LSN today that in his opinion the growing collection of dissident Catholics in the national spotlight is likely to harm the face of American Catholicism unless bishops take action to reclaim it.
"From the Canadian experience, it's clear that having dissident Catholics in top leadership positions creates an atmosphere of dissent within the faith," said Hughes. "The only remedy is for the bishops to either excommunicate them or at the very least publicly refuse communion to them so as to communicate loud and clear that this brand of anti-life Catholicism is simply fraudulent. The U.S. is now going to pay the price for too many years of silence on the part of the Catholic hierarchy."
WASHINGTON, D.C., January 6, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - With the appointment of Leon Panetta as the new head of the CIA, president-elect Barack Obama has continued a trend of appointing pro-abortion “Catholics” to high-profile positions in his government. Some pro-life leaders fear that these highly public Catholic dissidents could deal a serious blow to the pro-life Catholic image in America.
Panetta, a practicing Catholic who teaches a course each year at the Jesuit-run Santa Clara University, accumulated a strong pro-abortion record as a California congressman, including co-sponsoring the Freedom of Choice Act in 1990. During his run as Clinton's Chief of Staff, he supported the president's veto of the partial-birth abortion ban.
Panetta joins the ranks of a growing list of Catholic Obama picks who openly reject the Catholic Church's pro-life teachings. The highest-ranking among these is VP-elect Joe Biden, who on Meet the Press in 2007 incorrectly asserted that his pro-abortion position is allowed by Church teaching, a remark that incited a barrage of rebukes from dozens of U.S. bishops. Biden's bishop has, however, so far refused to formally excommunicate him, although the VP-elect is considered automatically excommunicated by virtue of his support for abortion.
Former Senate Majority leader Tom Daschle, who is preparing to take over as Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Obama White House, is a professed Catholic who as a congressman tenaciously pursued and defended unrestricted abortion. Demands for Daschle’s formal excommunication have also been denied so far, although according to an April 2003 article in the Weekly Standard he was informally ordered by his diocese to cease his public association with the Church.
Obama recently selected as the next DNC chairman Democratic Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, a Catholic who rejected the death penalty by invoking the Catholic belief that "life is sacred," yet who supports Roe v. Wade for protecting the "personal liberty" to choose abortion. (OK Mr. "Life is Sacred", explain your I'm against the death penalty for an adult but am fine with it for over 3200 unborn children every day!)
Last month, Sen. Ken Salazar, another pro-abortion Catholic, was announced as Obama's future Secretary of the Interior. The Democratic senator endorsed government funding for Planned Parenthood and voted against prohibiting minors from dodging abortion restrictions in their home state by obtaining abortions in neighboring states.
Though New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson recently refused his nomination as Commerce Secretary due to a looming corruption scandal, he was on track to rounding out Obama's Cabinet as a Catholic who claims to be personally opposed to abortion despite being named a "Champion of Choice" by NARAL in 2007 for his efforts in spreading abortion.
Though some U.S. bishops have publicly denounced dissident Catholics, and corrected erroneous statements by Daschle and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi about Church teachings on life, few have said they would go so far as to deny communion to such politicians. Many bishops, perhaps most notably Biden's own, Bishop Malooly, have insisted that while they disagree with certain statements by the pro-abortion politicians, formal excommunication or refusal of communion, as required by Canon law, would only "politicize" the Eucharist.
Jim Hughes, president of the Campaign Life Coalition, told LSN today that in his opinion the growing collection of dissident Catholics in the national spotlight is likely to harm the face of American Catholicism unless bishops take action to reclaim it.
"From the Canadian experience, it's clear that having dissident Catholics in top leadership positions creates an atmosphere of dissent within the faith," said Hughes. "The only remedy is for the bishops to either excommunicate them or at the very least publicly refuse communion to them so as to communicate loud and clear that this brand of anti-life Catholicism is simply fraudulent. The U.S. is now going to pay the price for too many years of silence on the part of the Catholic hierarchy."
posted by Al @ 6:34 AM
2 Comments:
At 10/1/09 12:42 PM ,
Joe said...
All of them should be excommunicated immediately.
These political criminals have spent years, even decades, promoting the killing of tens of millions of helpless innocent human beings. What they have done is absolutely morally indefensible.
In a just society they would be prosecuted for their crimes against humanity. At the very least the Catholic Church and all other churches must step up to the plate and repudiate any involvement with these politicians and declare them to be illegitimate and not worthy of holding public office.
I know these are tough steps to take, but we cannot let this horror against our children go on. It will require us to be much toughter than we have been if we ever wish to end abortion violence.
At 11/1/09 12:27 AM ,
Simplex Vir said...
Al what can I say when you are right , you are right!
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