The following comes from a Dec. 7 entry in A Shepherd’s Voice, the blogsite started by Father Malloy of Sts. Peter and Paul church in San Francisco.
On December 4, 2013 Life News reported on the latest abortion statistics from the Center for Disease Control. The article began with “good” news—3% fewer children were killed in 2010 than were in 2009, but noted the astronomical rates in the Black and Hispanic communities:
“The new report from the Centers for Disease Control had good numbers across the nation when it came to abortion — with abortions declining three percent in 2010 after a five percent decrease in 2009. But they also contained shocking figures showing abortion targets blacks and Hispanics.
The CDC Abortion Surveillance Report dated November 29, 2013 reveals that in 2010, 56.7% of abortions reported to the CDC nationwide were done on Hispanic and Black women….
According to the 2010 census, Hispanics make up 16.3% of the U.S. population. The 21% of US abortions that are Hispanic babies thus significantly exceeds the Hispanic percentage of the population. Since most Hispanics identify as Catholic, this indicates a serious lack of catechesis.
In the African-American community, which has been targeted by Planned Parenthood from that organization’s beginning, Protestant clergy such as California’s own Pastor Walter Hoye and the Reverend Clenard Childress of New Jersey have devoted their lives to fighting the black abortion.
One does not need to look far to see Hispanic Catholic clergy whose available resources (except for courage and determination) dwarf those of men like Hoye and Childress. I refer to the Hispanic bishops.
In California such men include the newly-elected leader of the California Catholic Conference, Bishop Jaime Soto of Sacramento; Bishop Rutilio del Riego of San Bernardino, Bishop Richard Garcia of Monterey, Bishop Cirilio Flores of San Diego, Bishop Xavier Ochoa of Fresno, Bishops Oscar Solis and Alexander Salazar of Los Angeles; and above all, Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles, by far the largest Catholic archdiocese in the country.
Many of these bishops have led pro-life vigils, attended 40 Days For Life events, and del Riego and Soto have been annual attendees at San Francisco’s Walk for Life West Coast. But as the numbers of Hispanic babies being killed shows, Planned Parenthood, for one, is not waiting.
According to the U.S. Census, San Francisco’s population in 1990 was 10.9% African Americans and 13.3% Hispanic. By 2010 those numbers had shifted to 6.1% African American and 15.1% Hispanic. In 2011 Planned Parenthood Golden closed their abortion business on Eddy Street, right on the edge of one of the largest concentration of African Americans in the city and re-opened on Valencia Street, right on the edge of the largest concentration of Hispanics in the city.
To read the original posting, click here.
So what if bishops attend 40 days events and the Walk for Life! What good does that do when they refuse to take any steps denounce those legislators, especially the Hispanic judas goats who promote abortion of Latina girls and women. Talk is cheap and anyone can brag about walking. The bishops need to do something. They can start with calling to the attention of Catholics the evil perpetrated by the Legislature in California who promote abortion to the hilt. Explain to them that voting for legislators who promote Planned Parenthood is voting for the murders of their own children and grandchildren.
Frankly, I am tired of wimpy bishops bragging about their pro-life activities but then smile like idiots at photo-ops with the baby killers.
another point on wimpy bishops….everyday points of INTEREST in a parish..many churches have 7-8 masses on sat. vigil-sunday…yet..on holy days of obligation..4 masses…priests don’t even mention it from the altar ….priests are not allowed to talk about sin from the altar…if they only understood that parishoners want some strong direction from priests…ESPECIALLY THE YOUNG PEOPLE….
They’re targeted.
“Population control is too important to entrust to some right-wing, pro-life types. Take the recent influx of Hispanic immigrants: Their lack of respect for democracy and social order is frightening. I hope I can do something to stem that tide. I’d set up a[n abortion] clinic in Mexico for free if I could. Maybe one in Calexico would help. The survival of our society could be at stake.…The Aid to Families With Dependent Children program is the worst boondoggle ever created. When a sullen black woman can decide to have a baby and get welfare and food stamps and become a burden to all of us it’s time to stop. In parts of South Los Angeles having babies for welfare is the only industry the people have.”
– Dr. Edward Allred (multi-millionaire, former owner of Family Planning Associates, once upon a time the largest independent abortion clinic chain), quoted in “Doctor’s Abortion Practice Lucrative,” The San Diego Union, 10/12/80, pp. A-3, 17.
The “Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition” is published in many languages, including Spanish. Why are our Bishops refusing to have good catechesis within their Diocese — and instruction to all literate Catholics to read/study the CCC at home?
Why are our Bishops refusing to enforce Canon 915 — for Catholic politicians who support abortion and sodomy marriage?
Follow the government’s (grant) money $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $.
This will be a very interesting litmus test for our Bishops…will they bite the hand that feeds them? i.e. The Democrat party and thus Planned Parenthood that funds the Democrats?
Or will they step up and warn their congregations about the brown and black genocide that is rampant.
Will they pull out all the stops like they are doing with illegal immigration? Prayer vigils, printed tshirts, diocese wide announcements from the pulpit and create special community organizatons to fight this?
We shall see…but from their track record, they do not stray far from the Democrat Party Line….they have been bought a very long time ago and their actions speak louder than their words.
There is a lot for the bishops, whether Hispanic or otherwise to catch up on: the loss of faith of most Hispanic Catholics, that has been going on the last several decades. Public Opinion Research Institute recently published results of a large survey (over 1500 participants conducted in Aug-Sept 2013): while over 50% of Hispanic Catholics still identified themselves as Catholic, over 69% said they had been raised Catholic in their youth; also 5% said they had no religious profession as children: now as adults, 12% of Hispanics have no religious affiliation at all. What it shows is in the post-Vat2 Church, to use a favorite tag-line of the left, “Hispanic Catholics are being ‘left behind’”. The survey reveals a large number of Hispanic Catholics who are Catholic no longer and a now significantly growing group that have completely lost their faith (the 12% growing from 5 % in their youth). And given that the US Bishops are doing their best to to personally promote Obamacare, a higher minimum wage and gun control, we have to expect the slide to continue.
The homily I heard yesterday for the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe was given to a small group of non-Hispanics. We were told that we need to work toward immigration reform because our Hispanic brothers and sisters are the ones God is using to teach the rest of us the importance of family life. Maybe the priest, who is a foreigner himself, is not aware that “family planning” is a code word for abortion!