A Pro-Life Priest?

[TheSpiritHeals]

Florida has the most senior citizen residents and visitors of any state in the Union. A very wealthy Catholic Church is located on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Ninety-five percent of the parishioners are senior citizens. There are very few children in the church.
This church has a rector who was an assistant to the diocesan bishop and who has a doctorate in theology. Some parishioners appreciate his homilies and believe that the priest is very intelligent. The priest also believes that he is very intelligent.
However, a pro-life controversy has arisen in the church. When asked about pro-life, the priest responds as follows:
“I hate to burst your bubbles. A parishioner can vote for a pro-choice candidate because there is more than one way to be pro-life. Pro-life can mean stopping the wars in Iraq and elsewhere. Pro-life can mean saving Haitians and other persons from hunger and disease.”
These comments have caused some parishioners to pray the pro-life rosary with regard to this priest. Other parishioners are delighted and pass (under the tables in the parish hall) articles and a book relating to voting for Democratic pro-choice candidates.
Thus, the church is somewhat split. It is not a deep split because a significant number of parishioners are in Florida for only four months or less each year. Yet, it is an on-going division.
Do the forum members have a solution for this division?

 

[Incomplete]

I wish I could help. I vote with the parishioners praying the rosary.

 

[YoungTradCath]

Have a chat with the priest, perhaps after a face-to-face confession or something. That’s a serious thing.

 

[rmills1]

We can never vote for a pro-choice/abortion ballot or for a pro-choice/abortion candidate for public office.
Same holds for embryonic stem cell research, human cloning, gay “marriage” or euthanasia.

 

[mdkirkbride]

Maybe that is something that needs to be brought to the Bishop’s attention.

 

[AJC]

Like some priests today, this fellow in Florida is the Democrat Party with a clerical collar. We have a few priests in our diocese that won’t preach against abortion because some woman may have had an abortion and they have suffered enough. Of course that argument could be made for any sin, which we hear very little about in these parts, but then again, maybe the only person who should preach about hell is the one concerned that some folks could end up there. I have no idea where this avoidance comes from.

 

[archangel04]

We can never vote for a pro-choice/abortion ballot or for a pro-choice/abortion candidate for public office.
Same holds for embryonic stem cell research, human cloning, gay “marriage” or euthanasia.

Tell that to some of the members on here

 

[dailey]

I wish I could help. I vote with the parishioners praying the rosary.

Same here…

Question though, what does the Church say about this? I recently told my grandmother who is Catholic (and voted for Obama) that we CANNOT vote for him, according to the Catholic Church, since he is pro-choice. Was I right?

 

[zab]

Same here…

Question though, what does the Church say about this? I recently told my grandmother who is Catholic (and voted for Obama) that we CANNOT vote for him, according to the Catholic Church, since he is pro-choice. Was I right?

I think most devout Catholics would come to that conclusion. But the Church does not tell us who we can and cannot vote for. Her teachings help us to make the right choices.

 

[thomas_jd]

Same here…

Question though, what does the Church say about this? I recently told my grandmother who is Catholic (and voted for Obama) that we CANNOT vote for him, according to the Catholic Church, since he is pro-choice. Was I right?

In the last election both canidates were pro-choice.
That was the position on both websites!