Catholics For Choice Needs To Convert

[thereseozi]

catholicleague.com/release.php?id=1731

**CATHOLICS FOR CHOICE NEEDS TO CONVERT
**
December 3, 2009

Catholic League president Bill Donohue issued the following remarks today about yesterday’s ad by Catholics for Choice in the Washington Post:

Last week on MSNBC I debated David Nolan, communications director of Catholics for Choice. At one point, I told him straight out that he wouldn’t know what a practicing Catholic was. Then I got specific: his cluelessness was a function of his working for an anti-Catholic organization. When asked to reply, he sheepishly said that he was not the issue.

A real man would have taken me on, but only phonies work for this anti-Catholic front group. Funded by the likes of George Soros and the Ford Foundation, Catholics for Choice has twice been condemned as a fraud by U.S. bishops. So when it purports to speak for Catholics, its credibility is on a par with Jews for Jesus speaking for Jews.

Yesterday’s ad tried to scare the public into thinking that if the health care bill that the bishops want goes through, the sky will fall on women. Catholics for Choice is good at that—always exploiting women to make a cheap political point.

The truth is that Catholic-bashing groups cannot believe the clout that our bishops have recently exercised. As a result, they are desperately resorting to demagogic measures, all designed to frighten the uninformed.

Christmas is coming. Time for Catholics for Choice to convert.

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[agstockstill]

Amen, Thank you!

 

[Deacon_Ed_B]

Those who profess to be Catholic and then say that they are pro choice, separate themselves from the Catholic Church by that simple statement. True Catholics believe and practice all that the One, Holy Catholic and Apostolic church believes and teaches. Those who do not are not truly Catholic.

 

[angelsdefendus]

It is the biggest problem the Catholic Church faces:

Picking and choosing that which to believe. It strikes at the very core of what it means to be a Catholic. The essence of Catholicism is truth. Once truth becomes malleable it is no longer truth.

Relativism is the work of the Devil - in fact it is the sword of the devil. If Michael asks “Who is like God?” then Satan asks, “Why aren’t we like God?”

 

[rep140]

I wish we had someone other than Bill Donohue as a spokesperson. Every time I hear him I cringe. He bellows and rather than address issues engages in personal attacks. I’m sure that someone like Chris Mattthews loves to show him as the face of Catholicism.

 

[manygift1spirit]

The term “cafeteria catholics” has only been around a few decades at most. Before it was coined, guess what term was used instead?

“Protestants”

While I greatly appreciate Donohue’s vocation, I have my issues with him too. Al Kresta once said something to the effect that “the hallmark of intellectual maturity is to represent your adversary’s positions in a way they would recognize as accurate”. Donohue far too often does not show a lot of intellectual maturity, based on that guideline. The result is that his pronouncements lose considerable credibility (let alone charity). And the irony is, Kresta was referring to those criticizing a Church position. Sigh.