Mary Healy of Sacred Heart Seminary
“Only one party wants to give the full protection of the law to the intentional killing of the innocent through abortion. And even to punish medical professionals who refuse to take part…. Beware of being deceived….”
The above comes from an Oct. 14 video on You Tube.
Bishop Paprocki: a graver reason than 860,000 babies?
Bishop Thomas Paprocki said that voting for pro-abortion Democrat Joe Biden in the upcoming election would require “a proportionately grave reason that outweighs the killing of 860,000 babies per year,” adding that even the death penalty is no such reason.
The above comes from an Oct. 16 story on LifeSiteNews.
Archbishop Vigano warns the U.S. bishops
Archbishop Viganò prays that the good example of the few bishops and pastors in America who are speaking out for the unborn during this presidential election are an example to others. “I pray that the few, courageous Pastors who raise their voices to defend the inviolable and non-negotiable principles which the Lord has established in natural law, may be joined by those who today hesitate out of fear, timidity, or a false sense of prudence,” he says.
The above comes from an Oct. 15 story on LifeSiteNews.
Must-see homily from Maryland
A must-see homily from Fr. Edward Meeks delivered at Christ the King parish in Towson, MD on 10/11/2020. This is the homily that should be preached from every pulpit in America.
The above comes from an Oct. 12 posting on Anti-CatholicTicket.com.
Dr. Healy’s thoughtful well-reasoned video is well worth the 15 minutes it takes to listen. She does not mention any candidate by name. Her focus is on policies, not personalities. I urge readers to listen and seriously, prayerfully consider what she says.
These are personal opinions that no one should let influence them. Voting for the candidate of your choice is your rght as an American citizen.
I take it you disregard the personal opinions of liberal churchmen. Not!
More important to be a Faithful Catholic than an American citizen, as wonderful as that is.
God bless the Holy Father Pope Francis. Keep him safe and strong. His statements on same sex unions will make a huge difference!
Tyquan, if you listen to what the Pope said in Spanish, you’ll notice he did not say “civil unions.” That’s how it was mistranslated. It seems a better translation would be “civil coexistence.” Don’t believe everything you see or hear from CNN, AP or major newspapers.
The point our Holy Father is making is not in favor of gay marriage or anything close to endorsing it. He is only pointing out we should not shun them out of our lives. Love them without reserve. They are God’s children
Reuben, if that was his point he would have said it plainly. He uses ambiguity to shield his points from scrutiny so that pope ‘splainers will have a little bit of cover as they try to explain away his drift from the traditional moral teachings of the Church. Busted!
The Pope said it pretty painly. Kristin, I’m not sure why you are confused. The pope said that gay people are entitled to family. The Catechism says the same thing, that gay people are not to be discriminated against.
Hey, Anonymous @10:52am – who is to say homosexuals don’t have families? Unless they grew up as orphans, there’s a family there, maybe not to their liking, but nonetheless, family. Blame biology for “discriminating” against two humans of the same sex not being able to naturally procreate. It’s about biology, not “entitlement”, and nature has rules even when homosexual apologists don’t.
No confusion here, but duty bound to let you know that active homosexual relationships are mortally sinful, even if the pope won’t say it.
What a rainbow sprinkled comment considering this article had nothing whatsoever to do with the Holy Father! However, his latest musing is further evidence that he is in great need of our prayers.
Dona no pacem, are you able to answer a question you were previously asked?
Can you provide some examples of the “hateful rhetoric” of the current administration?
And, did you listen to Mary Healy’s video? (She mentions no candidate positively or negatively.)
You are correct, voting for the candidate of your choice is your right as an American, as is your right to abortion, idol worship, adultery (unless you’re in the military) and a host of other things. And, each of us will be accountable for how we vote before the judgment of God.
Dona nobis pacem ,
Yes, It is your right as an American citizen to vote for the candidate of your choice.
But as a Catholic, faithful practicing Catholics must vote for the most moral political platform.
The article does not contain personal opinions. These are the teachings of many Bishops and Priests regarding the evils of the Democrat Platform.
You do not have the right to come to a traditional catholic site and spread scandal.
You can state your opinion but you don’t have the right to oppose good Bishops & Priests
and catholic teaching in the article.
One of the worst things we can do to others is lead them into sin.
“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened round his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea” (Mt 18:6)
Democrats who vote for legislation that permits immorality in such forms as abortion, embryonic stem cell research, transgenderism, etc. are guilty of scandal and are responsible for all the sins committed as a result
You really cross the line when you dispute an article of Catholic teaching.
I think you should be blocked because of the scandal: Readers may be mislead.
Anon, a sentence in your comment piqued my curiosity: “But as a Catholic, faithful practicing Catholics must vote for the most moral political platform.” As a faithful Catholic who knows that no candidate ever really pays much attention to the party’s platform, do I have options? If the platform is “pro-catholic” but the candidate is less than moral in his or her personal behavior or actions, can I vote for the other candidate? Should I pay attention to what s/he says of what s/he does?
Wrong Bob One, Trump has been true to the Republican platform, so yes, you can and should vote for this prolife candidate. Be not afraid.
There is substantial evidence that Trump isn’t pro life for 2 reasons. If he were actually pro life he would not have used embryonic stem cells to cure or relieve his COVID-19 symptoms. He’s also been president for 3 years and he has yet to use his veto power to eliminate funds for planned parenthood.
Can’t always get perfection but read this and see Trump is prolife. Yes, Trump is prolife and not even Catholic.
https://thecatholicassociation.org/promisestop10/
There were no stem cells from aborted fetuses actually used in any of President Trump’s Treatment, but Regeneron did use an aborted fetal line to experiment on when developing the vaccine. One can find all the information about the procedures that were used on the “AAAS Science Update: Here’s what is known about Trump’s COVID-19 treatment”. It is a non profit science journal, so I am assuming they are correct on this. Others can correct me on this if needed.
I should have said an older 1970 fetal line from the Netherlands in my last post, involving one child.
The president might not have even known that at the time. They might have told him that there were no aborted stem cells in it, which is the truth, without telling him every little detail.
Is everyone aware that Lipton Tea was also, and might still be, using that stem cell line for testing their flavors? That is why I no longer buy Lipton as I am not sure whether they are still doing that or not.
Reuben, “He’s also been president for 3 years and he has yet to use his veto power to eliminate funds for planned parenthood”
If such a bill to fund PP came up, it would hopefully be outvoted by
Republicans and Independent and if not, of course it would be vetoed by Trump.
PP is funded indirectly through Medicaid reimbursements for preventive care and Title X, HHS grants for comprehensive family planning services.
Trump, through the regulatory process, and his own Proposed Budget, worked to defund PP by removing Title X funding and Medicaid for abortions. Also he was successful in removing abortion support in the US International relief programs.
Reuben, (continuation of Anonymous October 27, 2020 at 4:03 pm)
https://www.lifenews.com/2020/10/23/here-are-president-donald-trumps-top-13-pro-life-accomplishments/
Trump was/is obstructed by dems and RINOs time and again
( e.g. Murkowski, Collon, in the past by John McCabe)
– was out voted in senate by dems and republicans
– Abortion Funding shows up on Congress’s spending bills, Covid relief bills, House and Senate versions of the budget
– Many states still fund PP through taxpayers.
– Many court cases have confronted the defunding efforts.
…..
https://www.lifenews.com/2020/07/15/democrat-governors-have-given-planned-parenthood-abortion-biz-over-300-million/
“over the course of the last four fiscal years, states have paid out more than $300 million to Planned Parenthood affiliates. Now, some of the biggest contributors are asking for federal money to cover their nonpandemic-related budget shortfalls
….
It’s very complicated because he is being obstructed at each step.
Carlos, you think Donald Trump never paid for an abortion? Seriously?
The Anonymous post Oct. 27 at 12:27 pm was mine but none of the other Anons were.
Anonymous, I don’t think what you presented is Church teaching at all.
I find that there is a great deal of difference between being labeled as “pro-choice” and “pro-abortion”, the later being deliberately used as emotive and inflammatory, implying the person wants everyone to get an abortion on demand. There are many pro-choice Catholics who, when asked, will say “I am pro-choice, but I hope and pray the choice is for life”… All too often in national elections, the choice of candidates is rarely down to one issue. Granted, if abortion is THE issue one chooses to decide one way or another, that is their right, but to inflict guilt, shame, denigration on someone who looks at other issues with equal vigor and scrutiny, causing them to believe that they are less than “good Catholics”, is going beyond the pale of dogma and into political campaigning, which can cause the church to lose its status as a tax-exempt entity if its leadership (to include well-meaning, fervent priests and laity) is not careful… It’s one thing to preach values and beliefs from the pulpit, quite another to extoll one’s congregants to vote for a particular candidate or program as if to carry the weight of sin if one votes contrary to that leader’s words.
Michael JD and Bob One,
In these articles, the Bishops and Priests, etc, above, have explained the importance of
voting for policies and platforms. They don’t endorse persons or parties.
You have enough sense to discern the potential effects of the platform on the country, family life, and the Church.
The Cal-Cath title of article mentions Biden; but the speakers don’t.
You can apply your “vigor and scrutiny” to both parties’ platforms and match your findings with the above article’s referenced speakers’ points.
They are not writing “to inflict guilt, shame..”, that is the projection and justification of those who want acceptance of their voting choice.
We are the source of our own guilt and projections – everyone else is “just folks”.
A sign of this non-alignment with recommended Catholic voting is the resistance, constant micro-questioning and complaining about what the article says and even the other commenters. Its like someone who repeatedly takes his issue to a higher court when they don’t get their way. ( We see that with the re-calling of the Little Sisters of the Poor to court after court )
This topic of Catholic recommended voting has been discussed in many of these articles in Cal-Cath . The catholic voting recommendation regarding policy is not brain surgery.
Yet, we see the inability to just understand the position as Mary Healy simply describes it above. Understand the position and then the ball is in your court.
Regarding Anonymous October 22, 2020 at 2:19 pm
I have to correct myself,
it seems some of the Speakers in the article did mention the candidates by name.
Also, to clarify, what I meant when I said, “everyone else is ‘just folks’ “,
I think that guilt is more a personal lack of our own peace and the conflict between what we do and what we think (consciously or unconsciously) we should be doing. Everyone has their own journey and conflicts which for the most part monopolizes their time, so we don’t have to worry about other people judging us. Bishops and Priests teach and guide us.
I really liked the summary of Anonymous on Oct. 18 at 1:51pm, in the article in which Bishop Daly and Philip Lawler responded to Bishop McElroy’s comments regarding the election. The direction each Presidential candidate and party is headed in, is quite clear. Good idea, to see that– and vote, based on that– not just vote for a man. Do you want your tax dollars going to Planned Parenthood, to kill perfectly healthy children, up to their very birth-day, who have every right to be born and to thrive– due to immoral “choices” people are allowed to make? Do you want mandated, immoral “politically correct” radical leftists, with promiscuity and LGBT-infested sex-ed programs, K-12, and birth control and abortion made available — at your children’s schools?? Do you want the police foolishly de-funded, and a huge increase in crime? Do you want Religious Rights abolished, and immoral, taxpayer-funded birth control, Abortions, LGBT agendas, etc., forced on all American churches, schools, hospitals, and other institutions– and the subsequent collapse of these religious-affiliated institutions? Want to see the Little Sisters of the Poor collapse and leave the U.S., Catholic schools, charities, and hospitals close, all Christian wedding-related services close, and poor David Daleiden and his CMP co-workers sent to jail, and ruined for life? Just start there– do you really want the immoral “Democratic Death Party,” ruling America– and does God want you to vote for His wayward, extremely immoral “sheep,” Joe Biden??? That is how I see it! I vote not for liking/disliking the man, but for the direction the man plans to take my country in— and what direction I know Almighty God wants, for America!