Michigan priest: [click links to watch on YouTube] “I do not know how a Catholic who has a well-formed conscience can vote for a candidate who promises to promote and widen access to abortion, especially when there are candidates on that same ballot who are pro-life or more-pro-life than that person.”
Minnesota priest1: “There’s one party who believes that you can kill a baby up until the moment it is being born. You can dismember the baby in the womb, and that taxpayers should pay for it. And the other party finds that abhorrent.”
Father David Miller: “For his entire political career, Catholic Joe Biden has been a hypocrite. Saying one thing and doing another. He has said, ‘I’m personally Catholic. I personally believe in the Church and her teachings. I can make a profession of faith, but I can’t act on it, ’cause I’m a politician. So I have to support abortion. I have to condone evil in my actions.’ ”
Minnesota priest2: “Support for a major political candidate despite that candidate’s open and zealous support for the right to slaughter unborn children in the womb can only be justified when another issue takes immediate and compelling precedence, and frankly I know of no such issue. None!”
Father Michael O’Connor, Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church, Mississippi: “Because Joe Biden masquerades as a Catholic, I’m going to use his name. Joe Biden embraces teachings that are absolutely and fundamentally opposed to the priorities of our Church to protect life, to protect the sanctity and holiness of marriage. He is in some respects an embarrassment to Catholicism.”
Bishop David Ricken of Green Bay, Wisconsin: “Brothers and sisters, the insanity must stop. Bloodshed and destruction of the body and soul of these the most innocent of human beings – innocent children in the womb and just outside the womb – that must stop. 61 million babies – their blood cries out for justice.”
The above comes from an Oct. 29 message from CatholicVote.org.
They are brave men of God.
These men will be attacked by leftist Catholics who want to vote for pro-abortion candidates and pretend the Church agrees with them. Just watch the comments roll in here from weak and fake Catholics, some of whom actually claim to be Christians. Shame on you if you won’t support a truly pastoral clergy.
I have noticed a lot more of those people coming on here lately. I bet they will stop after Tuesday. Your work is so important to us.
You may try to steal my name but my resolve is steadfast.
Sometimes, we get so caught up in things of the world that we lose our souls.
It’s clear as the nose on your face: the Democrat Party is the party of evil besides the party of totalitarianism. They hate the police, they hate free speech, they are all-in with transgenderism and gay everything, they are on board with the reverse discrimination of “antiracism”, they want to open borders and extend citizenship to pack the voting rolls with people who are looking for government handouts, they will use power they obtain to impose their politico-religious ideology on everyone, and if you resist you will be canceled. No way is any Catholic who votes for the Democrats not committing an objectively sinful act.
Clergy should stay out of politics, period. Every Catholic has the right to their conscience. And there is more than one pro-life issue on the ballot.
Anonymous 11/2/20 9:17am But “their conscience” should be a well-ordered conscience
which your resentment of Clergy teaching and your lack of discernment shows you lack.
The Clergy guide us regarding the preeminent issues of the election.
You have no “right” to go against discerning Catholic teaching.
There is not more than 1 pro-life issues on the ballot –
e.g. The death penalty is a lesser evil than abortion (few states allow it and only for the most grievous offenses)
That is a state’s right issue – See your state Senate and Assembly for that and other of your seamless garment issues.
You try to equalize all evils to find a “proportionate reason” to justify your cooperation with abortion.
Despite many articles and discussions, we have these poorly-formed catholic “broken records” that try to divert issues or change Catholic teaching and lead others astray.
I’m glad you agree that the Pope should not have meddled in American politics and made negative remarks about our president and border security. And, that Bishop McElroy should restrain himself as well.
I read some of the replies here, and I observe an egregious amount of sound-bite rhetoric. One priest suggests that Biden actually promotes abortion – I can tell you that Biden is, like many Catholics here in the states, pro-choice, but hope the choice is for life. The picture drawn b y the verbiage in terms of late-term abortions is meant at points to give the reader the impression that such abortions are done by women and doctors who simply kill a full term baby once born, but give no context. No matter what, a woman who must decide between carrying a child to term, keeping the child, give the child up for adoption, or aborting during the first trimester (when the fetus will not, with rarest of exceptions and use of extraordinary means, live if it survived being born by cesarean or spontaneous birth) is one of the hardest decision a person can make, and whose consequences will remain with them, likely the rest of their lives. Father David Miller gives a quote, but no reference for the discerning reader with which to explore further or verify. In this election of 2020, for many the issue is singular: pro-choice or pro-life, and for many, it’s a difficult one given the conservative candidate’s other behaviors and attitudes. The “oh, he’s not perfect, but he has helped pack the SCOTUS so that we can overturn Roe v Wade” or “God uses the evil doer to accomplish God’s holy and righteous ends” are not arguments to allow a man like Trump to continue. Instead, they sound more like a “the ends justifies the means” axiom, and how many times has a well meaning priest or the church done horrific things for the sake of the church’s perceived values at the time. Kevin T’s reply is filled with hateful rhetoric and overtones which Trump has espouses to inflame the minds and hearts to justify acting in a manner less than Christ-like, but it’s okay if Kevin does so so long as he votes pro-life always, right (or is that also “ends justifying the means?).. I’ve chatted with many Catholic women, filled with faith and love, whose mothers quietly encouraged birth control so that they could finish school, start a career, etc. It was to give them the choice of having children, and the Catholic Church, in their view, needs to realize that it cannot have its cake and eat it too. If the Church allowed free and unfettered birth control, it could make a good argument about no longer having the rational for abortion because fewer women would have unwanted pregnancies. If one chooses to continue a pregnancy, that’s their choice.
I am appalled that this Catholic website has allowed you to promote the use of birth control so many times.
Contraception is what has caused the downfall of America.
Michael, you are soooo far off the Catholic reservation that I will simply refer you to the Catechism of the Catholic Church . Contraception is a grave mortal sin, you need to educate yourself as to why, and preview, it always leads to abortion. Your abortion apologetics are Not Catholic!
With all due respect, how does contraception lead to abortion? Is it not the lack of contraception?
The mindset that sex is for recreation, not necessarily for procreation, is what influences the decision to engage in sexual relations even though a child would be viewed as an adverse result. Contraception is the usual answer in many such cases. And when the contraception doesn’t work? Or it isn’t even put into practice? Does anyone suppose that, having decided to engage in sexual relations even though a pregnancy would be seen as a disaster, and if pregnancy does result, that the parents would actually welcome the baby into the world? Sometimes – but rarely – do they do this. Usually, after using contraception to avoid a baby, the parents – or the mother alone – faced with an unplanned pregnancy feels that an abortion is a something they’re entitled to fall back upon.
Planned Parenthood’s own business model counts on contraceptive failure to increase their abortion numbers. They know that the younger a girl is when she starts using contraception, the more likely she will become pregnant and resort to abortion at some point in her life. Every nation that has legalized abortion has first accepted contraception and abortion is widely used as the backup method of “birth control” when contraception fails or is not used.
The Supreme Court legalized contraception in 1965 which led to much more sex and calls for the legalization of abortion which the Court did in 1973. Billions of “the pill” has led to millions of abortions, 65 million since 1973 in the US alone, billions worldwide. China still mandates contraception and forced abortion if it fails. Chemical contraceptives can also act as abortifacients, read the packaging inserts.
Notice I didn’t even resort to a religious argument, the connections are well established for anyone willing to follow the science. For A Catholic perspective, Human Life International has many good resources.
MJD, More non-catholic ramblings – thrown up against the wall and you are hoping something sticks.
The catechism is your friend – Please start reading it.
She/he is a child not a choice, so to begin with this mischaracterization of child killing, abortion, reveals much. Whether a human life is in the first trimester stage or last makes no difference. Life begins at conception so when a woman has an abortion it still results one dead and one wounded. Perhaps some are unaware that God chooses flawed people to further his Kingdom. St. Paul and St. Augustine come to mind. As for the “ends justify the means” argument how can we judge someone’s motives or the state of his soul. Are we playing God? We are all sinners. And finally birth control has lead to over 60 million deaths so can we still consider this to be a panacea. The back up to a failed contraceptive is abortion and it only encourages more promiscuous behavior with devastating results.
Oh look pretend leftist intellectual defending the killing of babies ,,,,
Thank God for the few clergymen who have the intestinal fortitude to speak out for the truth.
If Biden wins, ‘Ricken & the 5 Systemics’ will have to start holding 10% for Hunter and the Big Guy.