Archbishop of Denver Samuel Aquila led a prayer outside of the Boulder Abortion Clinic last Wednesday as part of the Catholic Church’s advocacy for a ballot initiative seeking to limit reproductive rights.
Watch video of Archbishop Aquila speaking at 40Days for Life in front of abortion clinic.
“The media and society, and many politicians put out the lie and the false premise that Catholics only care about the unborn. That is not true. That is a total lie,” he said to a crowd of approximately 20 attendees, according to the Denver Catholic.
Proposition 115 would generally ban abortions after the gestational age of the fetus reaches 22 weeks. The measure imposes penalties on doctors who perform such abortions, but would not criminalize the women who seek them.
Aquila also referenced the subject in a Friday column in which he told Catholics more broadly that “religious freedom is on your ballot.”
“It is not possible to be a Catholic in good standing and support abortion or assisted suicide, to promote unnatural sexuality, or to seek to push people of faith out of the public square,” the archbishop wrote.
Although he did not mention Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden by name, church leaders have debated how to respond to Catholic politicians who are pro-choice and support same-sex marriage, as Biden does.
Aquila’s column appeared one day before President Donald Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the vacant U.S. Supreme Court seat. Some Republicans have accused the opposition to Barrett’s fast-tracked nomination as indicative of “anti-Catholic bigotry” or “intolerance” of her faith. Aquila compared modern critiques of Catholicism to the tactics of the Ku Klux Klan.
“The attacks on Catholics have shifted from the 19th century discrimination and claims that we can’t be loyal citizens, to the recent assertions that Catholics are judgmental and hateful towards women and sexual minorities,” Aquila warned.
The above comes from a Sept. 28 story on Colorado Politics.
Few masks and no apparent social distancing.
One can support the secular right of others to engage in certain activities which one finds morally objectionable. The USA is not a theocracy ruled from Rome.
So what, Karen? You don’t like it or afwaid? Don’t go, okay?
They are not required outside and there are no social distancing requirements. See https://covid19.colorado.gov.
Not every place has the same incidence of COVID-19 nor even necessarily the same risk-aversion as us Californians.
Mike, “One can support the secular right of others to engage in certain activities which one finds morally objectionable.” Would that include killing babies, gassing Jews and enslaving blacks? Those were all legal secular “rights” in some places and at some times.
I’m grateful for a bishop willing to lead and pray with his people, for women, babies and all entering that death chamber.
The bishop is a private citizen and free to pray there and possesses First Amendment rights just like the rest of us. He doesn’t consider himself the ruler of Denver or Boulder or any temporal city.
So, mike m, do you support the right of others to be racist, assuming you find racism morally objectionable? Would you support the right of others to deny someone a job based on skin color?
The fact that you focus on mask wearing and social distancing as a distraction from the murderous activities that occur in the building where they are peacefully demonstrating and praying says a lot about you.
Hey Mike M why do you even come to this site or stay in the Church you seem to object to it entire existence.
boulder, colorado is as far gone
as any nutty town in cali
Thank you Archbishop Aquila for speaking out. Unfortunately, Bishop Gerald Barnes of the Diocese of San Bernardino which includes both Riverside and San Bernardino Counties has issued a notice to all of the priests, deacons and other parish staff in the diocese ordering them not to speak about candidates and/or their positions in the upcoming election. In other words, Joe Biden gets a free ride when it comes to his position on abortion and other matters of Catholic doctrine.