I am afraid that if people want an abortion they will get one whether or not it is legal or illegal or immoral. I think it is a sin that if left unrepentant will result in loss of salvation till the moment of death. I don’t know if it is helpful for bishops to come out specifically and publicly against elected Catholic officials. In the future people may not vote for catholic politicians and that is bad. It should be a private matter between our priests and the individual. When a catholic is denied the Eucharist in a public way and it appears to be a denial of a desired thing it looks like control of a person.
The church should be vocal on Abortion and its effects on sinners. They should not publicly come out against politicians. They should publicly give the teachings of the church when possible. I understand material cooperation and its effects. We should not make a vote for health care a vote for abortion. Under proportionate reasoning it is a greater good to provide health care to millions.
Maybe we can include abstinance and other type of stuff in the bill as a compromise to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancy. I think we have to be incremental in our approach to abortion. We need healthcare reform now.
**The Church is vocal on Abortion, it’s just that most people are too ignorant, lazy or cowardly to listen!
The Church rarely comes out publicly against individual politicians unless, like in the recent Kennedy case, the politician drags a private letter from his Bishop into the public eye after 2 years for political gain & misrepresents the Church teachings & position on this primordial issue.**
Yes people will continue to get abortions, whether legal or illegal. Our mission is to inform everyone about the Truth, the fact that abortion does not solve a woman’s problems, it just creates life-long misery, regret & guilt.
** We must inform them of the scientific Truth that life begins at the moment of conception.** The lies peddled by those who make billions of $$$$ off women in crisis through the horrors of abortion by calling the baby a “few indiscriminate cells, or a blob of tissue, or a zygote, or a fetus” or whatever else will dehumanize the innocent baby.
**We must inform them about the Truth that women only have freedom of “choice” without abortion! **There are numerous churches & charitable agencies that will help mothers with financial aid, medical treatment, food, housing, job training & placement so they can keep the baby, or they can give the baby up for adoption to give their child a life & a family a baby!
Those are the “choices” Jesus wants:
" and said to them, “Whoever receives this child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me; for he who is least among you all is the one who is great.” (Lk 9:48)
No one is judging or blaming the poor women, who often are pressured by men or even their own parents to abort their baby. Jesus has infinite Mercy for all of us who sin, as long a s we repent. The goal is to minimize the needless murder of innocent babies through abortion and save these women a lifetime of pain, by shining the Light of Truth, our Lord & Savior, Jesus Christ, on the lies promulgated by those who stand to gain from this horrible genocide.
**Let us follow the beautiful example of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus, on this Feast Day of Her Immaculate Conception; **
**"And Mary said, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” (Lk 1:38)
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Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, Ora Pro Nobis Peccatoribus!
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