The following is an excerpt of a Sept. 24 story on LifeNews.com
A coalition of Catholic leaders and activists have come together to support the candidacy of Mitt Romney, who is taking on pro-abortion President Barack Obama. The coalition includes quite a number of significant pro-life leaders ranging from former Vatican ambassadors Ray Flynn and Mary Ann Glendon to Governor Sam Brownback and Senator Marco Rubio….
The Catholics for Romney list follows:
National Honorary Chairman
Congressman Paul Ryan
National Co-Chairs
Ambassador Ray Flynn
Ambassador Mary Ann Glendon
Ambassador Thomas Patrick Melady
Ambassador Jim Nicholson
Ambassador Francis Rooney
Ambassador Frank Shakespeare
National Honorary Committee
Governor Terry Branstad
Governor Sam Brownback
Senator Kelly Ayotte
Senator John Hoeven
Senator Mike Johanns
Senator Jim Risch
Senator Marco Rubio
Senator Pat Toomey
Senator David Vitter
Congressman Steve Austria
Congressman John Boehner
Congressman Kevin Brady
Congresswoman Ann Marie Buerkle
Congressman David Camp
Congressman Francisco Canseco
Congressman Steve Chabot
Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart
Congressman Sean Duffy
Congresswoman Renee Ellmers
Congressman Chuck Fleischmann
Congressman Jeff Fortenberry
Congresswoman Virginia Foxx
Congressman Paul Gosar
Congressman Frank Guinta
Congressman Andy Harris
Congressman Joe Heck
Congressman Tim Huelskamp
Congressman Mike Kelly
Congressman Pete King
Congressman Steve King
Congressman Jeffrey Landry
Congressman Robert Latta
Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer
Congressman Daniel Lungren
Congressman Michael McCaul
Congressman Patrick McHenry
Congressman Pat Meehan
Congressman Mick Mulvaney
Congressman Tim Murphy
Congressman Devin Nunes
Congressman Steven Palazzo
Congressman Tom Reed
Congressman Jim Renacci
Congressman Todd Rokita
Congressman Tom Rooney
Congressman Steve Scalise
Congresswoman Jean Schmidt
Congressman Chris Smith
Congressman John Sullivan
Congressman Pat Tiberi
Former Colorado Governor Bill Owens
Former Governor of New Hampshire John H. and Nancy Sununu
Former Senator and Ohio Governor George Voinovich
Former Senator Rick Santorum
Former Speaker of the House Newt and Callista Gingrich
Former Congressman Bob Beauprez
Former Congressman Thomas Bliley, Jr.
Former Congressman Mike Ferguson
National Advisory Committee
Chief Finance Officer of Florida Jeff Atwater
Former U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr
Claudia Beauprez
Ohio Republican Party Chairman Bob Bennett
John Birney
Ohio Speaker pro tempore Lou Blessing
James Bopp, Jr.
Judge Robert H. Bork
Mary Ellen Bork
Sandy Bourne
Chris Braunlich
Tim Busch
Rachael Campos Duffy
Joseph C. Canizaro
Frank Cannon
Joe Cella
Barbara Comstock
Dr. Marilyn Coors
Pete Coors
Ann Corkery
Neil Corkery
Attorney General of Virginia Ken Cuccinelli
Marjorie Dannenfelser
Anthony J. de Nicola
Dan Devine
Kevin Dillon
Pat Duerr
Keith Faber
Dr. Robert George
Pennsylvania Republican Party Chairman Robert Gleason
Tom Grace
Frank Hanna
Bob Heckman
Patrick Henneghan
Michael Hernon
Ohio State Representative Matt Huffman
Frank P. Kavanaugh
Terrence Keeley
Dan Kelly
Ken Langone
James B. Lee, Jr.
Leonard Leo
Stephen Lessing
Bob Luddy
Gordon MacDonald
Sean Mahoney
Ed Martin
Nancy McGowan
John McManus
Ralph Miesel
Tom Monaghan
Former New Hampshire State Representative Maureen Mooney
William Mumma
Ohio Senate President Tom Niehaus
L. Martin Nussbaum
Joseph J. O’Connor
Former First Lady Frances Owens
William F. Plunkett, Jr.
John Saeman
Carol Saeman
Sharon Sager
George Schwartz
Peter Schwartz
Edward Schwartz
Greg Schwartz Jr.
Greg Schwartz Sr.
Bill Simon
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers
Charles Taunt
Brian Tierney
Michael Timmis
Billy Valentine
Rick Valentine
David Vicinanzo
Ohio State Senator Mark Wagoner
Dr. Brad Wenstrup
RNC National Committeewoman Phyllis Woods
To read entire story, click here.
Related is story about Bishop Paprocki’s statement that voting for a democrat makes one complicit in abortion, Amb Kmiec replied to a query that is nothing more than the old lie he pushed last time around … saying in essense you can in good conscience vote for a lion to eat a Christian because you’re voting for the lion feeding its young and not for it eating the Christian.
Pray for the soul of Kmiec and those of the two deceased religious who maybe could have stirred him in a better direction but apparently were more dedicated to the Demoncrat Party and its alleged care for the poor than for the teachings of Our Lord.
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
I would urge every Catholic to read Bishop Paprocki’s excellent statement or view the video. His words are for everyone.
It’s one thing to hold your nose tightly and vote for Romney–and I will do that–but another thing entirely to actively campaign and raise money for a guy that thinks that God lives on the planet Kolob and who has given a large fortune to an organization that refers to the Catholic Church as the “church which is most abominable above all other churches” (1 Nephi 13:5). We have truly entered the political twilight zone.
Now if we could only get the ‘regular’ Catholics in the pews to do the same!!!
We need to hear it from the pulpit, please dear Priests of Jesus Christ.
What a shame that the hierarchy cannot express the truth about the candidates and their stands for or against the basic issue of human life. Their tax-exempt status may well be the cause of the election going to the promoters and enablers of the Culture of Death. On the other hand, voting in the Socialism sought by the Democrats may help ensure that the Catholic Church is able to continue all its social programs that the Federal governments (taxpayers) pays for. Where will Catholic hierarchy and bureaucrats stand on Judgement Day?
I can’t believe the bishops are supporting the most pro abortion president ever just to get more money for the Church’s “social programs”. Do you have evidence to substantiate that suggestion? The bishops themselves tell us that the abortion issue is “THE human rights issue of our day”, and that a candidate who promotes elective abortion is unacceptable regardless of his/her stand on other issues. Supporting pro abortion candidates would thus be a reversal of priorities flying in the face of the Church’s solemn teaching.
HGPI,
Bishop Lennon of Cincinatti actually has a pro-Obamanation, pro-abortion, pro-sodomite woman giving lectures on how to vote to the poor sheep in his Diocese! Believe it!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Bishop Lennon is in Cleveland, Kenneth. But all the the other facts are true. I have already written that a friend has attended one of these meetings and she was shocked…several of these people are making no bones about supporting obama!
HGPI – Yes, the bishops are remaining silent in order to get more money for their “social programs”. Recent example, Bill Gates wife, the Catholic? Melinda Gates. The Gates Foundation is a BIG funder of worldwide contraception, eugenics and abortion programs. Melinda has recently been giving speeches about these topics which are obviously against Catholic teaching but the bishops have been ‘strangely silent’. Why? THE GATES FOUNDATION HAS BEEN GIVING 10s OF MILLIONS OF $$$s TO THE CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICE, THAT’S WHY!!!! Again, the USCCB’s bishops are putting MAMMON first.
The September 28th edition of the Tidings helped Obama with several pro-socialist articles.
After the Saturday evening Mass, the priest was gleefully telling everyone to be sure to pick up their free copy of the Tidings as they exited the church and to “carefully read the articles”. I unfortunately already had prior to coming to Mass.
If Catholicism matters then it’s time for prolife Catholics to re-define “Catholic” since church leaders can’t seem to make its meaning crystal clear. The apparent acceptance of today’s Catholics as “cafeteria Catholics” (pseudo-Catholic, quasi-Catholic, renegade Catholic, anti-Catholic) is an in-your-face challenge to the bishops. The confusion endures and grows nationwide because high-profile individuals and groups, who claim to be Catholic, act in direct opposition to Catholic teaching. The fact that they are not and immediately challenged by the body of our American bishops is why the confusion continues, and why our radically pro-abortion president may return to office. Cardinal Dolan refers to Biden and Ryan as two “Catholics” he gives subtle cover to the Biden’s anti-Catholic actions. This is why the prochoice mindset is so deeply entrenched in the hearts and minds of Americans; the Democrat’s convention had anti-Catholic “Catholics” standing in line to brazenly announce their support for the right to choose death for preborn babies. Forty years of abortion-on-demand cries to the heavens for a passionate proactive awakening of our duty to protect preborn life. It’s time to clean the house (Temple) of Catholicism. Implicit in Mathew 25 is Christ’s warning that preborn life must be defended; when the Son of Man comes into His glory, we will want to hear, “I was conceived unwanted in the womb and you protected me from death, what you did for these least brothers of mine, you did for me.” Writers for Life
Vote Republican; the Democrats booed God in their convention.
“A fool and his money are soon elected.”
Will Rogers
I can’t remember if CCD did an article on the Election prayer, but here is the last few lines of it…Awaken them that the same hands lifted up to you in prayer
…'{that these }Are the hands that pull the lever in the voting booth;
That the same eyes that read your Word
Are the eyes that read the names on the ballot,
And that they do not cease to be Christians
When they enter the voting booth.
Awaken your people to a commitment to justice
To the sanctity of marriage and the family,
To the dignity of each individual human life,
And to the truth that human rights begin when human lives begin,
And not one moment later.’
The whole prayer and fasting article is on priestsforlife.com,
…keep praying, brothers and sisters.
May God bless all of you, and hold you in HIs hand.