The past few months have shown unprecedented attacks on the pro-life movement. The rosary is our strongest weapon. I am stunned!
stunned and confused, I have attended rosaries outside of planned parenthood where our Bishop has lead the group.
And, before the light bulb wants to be changed, it must understand the need to change.
Our pastor joins us every Saturday that he can - wearing his big straw hat - he leads us up and down the sidewalk.
We are giving witness as called to do, and babies have been saved by sidewalk counselors who are able to speak to the mother before she enters the clinic.
Our area’s pro-life groups have instituted a perpetual prayer vigil where a parish will have an assigned day, and the parish “Respect Life” committee seeks to get one or two persons to spend an hour for each hour covering the day to pray in front of our local Planned Parenthood facility.
I would say that greatest prayer is to teach the children the way he should go. The Church needs to teach the children so this doesnt have to happen. I have to say that too many Catholics are involved in promoting this even themselves. A Kingdom divided…
I was listening to one of Father Frank’s more recent homilies on EWTN before his recall to Amarillo, TX, and he talked about the Genovese or “bystander” effect. It was named after a woman who was attacked three times in NYC, cried out each time & was heard, but no one did anything. So psychologists started to study the dynamics of the “bystander” effect. A subject would sit in a waiting room expecting to be called for a paid psyche experiment unaware that the experiment was in progress. Smoke would come into the room, and the subject went into action to sound the alarm. In other experiment, three persons were in the room when smoke came in, so each looked at each other to see how the other would react, and when none did, they all continued the wait reading their magazine. In other attempts, if one got alarmed, the rest tended to get alarmed too.
Yup! And that’s why there are so many families and school groups taking part in 40 days for life and other stand and pray activities.
On the Archdiocese of Spokane’s website, Bishop Cupich seems to say that priests can participate:
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If the bishop is that confused or misinformed (impossible to believe), then I suggest that it is time for him to resign and go to pasture so as not to do any more harm.
It doesn’t sound like the bishop is at all confused. Or that he doesn’t have a strong pro-life position. He is asking his priests to focus on teaching more fully about pro-life issues and not limit their efforts to praying a rosary outside a clinic. I thought the point that 40 Days for Life is not a Catholic initiative was interesting. I was not aware of that. Certainly the evangelical protestant community are also on the whole pro-life, but their view does not encompass the whole Catholic understanding (ie contraception and end of life issues), so I understand better why he would want to expand his priests activities past that.
Where on earth did you ever get this idea? There is no such obligation. Never has been - never will be. BTW we may have an obligation of obedience under certain circumstances, but that in no way obligates us to agree or put a charitable construction on anything. As far as our priests and Bishops are concerned, they are certainly due the respect that their office entitles them - but that in no way is a requirement to elevate their actions to a plane where we put a charitable explanation on all they do. In fact, I would argue, if anything, their actions demand a more stringent level of review - not less.
This may be true, but it has zip to do with the prior statement.
St. Ignatius of Loyola by way of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
footnote 280 is to St. Ignatius’s Spiritual Exercises.
These were my thoughts also, however, I do not understand why it would be necessary to ask his priests to avoid the 40 Days for life. This certainly would not take an enormous amount of their time and just because our protestant brothers and sisters do not understand or fully subscribe to Catholic teaching does not seem like ample reason to stop Catholic Priests participaton; this could also be an opportunity to help them understand the Catholic teaching on contraception and end of life issues. Most protestant denominations also taught contraception was wrong until they buckled to social pressures. So, why not both?
This is uncalled for. We dont talk about our bishops this way. We are called to be obedient to our Bishops. So far, he did not commit any heresy. I resent you talk like that to our Bishop. He deserves respect. he was ordainded.