I am actually looking for a parish priest who will frankly and clearly explain to his parishioners that they MUST consider the issue of life as the MOST IMPORTANT factor to judge when going to the voting booth.
Good for you. Chances are, you will be looking for parish priests who are younger. It seems like the younger ones are more orthodox than the middle-aged ones. A lot of the younger ones (ordained in the past 20 years) are very, very, very pro-life. If you want to see whether or not there are actual pro-life Catholics and clergy, I would suggest that you plan to come to DC for the March for Life, by the way. You will be very heartened.
I was heartbroken to discover that Catholics voted for Barak Obama…53% of Catholics justified their vote for him somehow.
How many Catholics do you know of who are Christmas/Easter Catholics?
When people are exit-polled upon leaving the polling place, there is no qualification process to determine if they are faithful Catholics or lapsed Catholics; if they are Catholics who are faithful to the Magesterium or Catholics who are dissenters. They may be asked how often they go to church, but that is a
separate question and is not used to show the percentage of Catholics who support candidate “a” or candidate “b”. The percentage of weekly Mass going Catholics who supported Mr. Obama was significantly smaller than the percentage including Christmas/Easter Catholics.
Many Catholic Democrats see only the past support of unions, and work with the poor, and think that the current Dem. party is the party of JFK. Nothing could be further from the truth, yet here we are.
Believe it or not, there were several bishops who came out against Obamacare, not only because it would provide funding but because it violated the principle of subsidiarity, including Vasa, Naumann, Finn, Lori, Doran, Nienstedt, Nicklass, Aquila, Chaput, Tobin, Johnston, and Slattery.
I came here to find out if there are fundamentalist Catholics who want the Church to return to its traditional form, maybe pre-Vatican II (I don’t know enough about that yet) but at the very least, to educate Catholics about the issues when they go to vote.
As somebody who enjoys the extraordinary form of the Mass, I would hate to be called a “fundamentalist.” I would suggest that you find a different term, such as “orthodox” to describe the Catholics you seek.
But I have a question for you: are
you educated? Your post indicates that you are motivated, but are you really educated on the Church’s teaching on life? If you are, perhaps you could consider starting up a pro-life group in your parish. You don’t have to advocate doing anything really controversial in the beginning…you could make up baskets for single women who made the decision for life rather than killing their unborn. Then when you get people sufficiently educated, you can work on getting them motivated to do more. And if you start up a recognized “group” in the parish, you can regularly post articles in the parish bulletin, hand out flyers before and after Mass, and so on. So
you could help raise awareness in your parish.
You always have to remember, though, that
we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. (Eph 6:12) So when you look at Obama, Pelosi, your squishy pastor, your squishy bishop. and so on, you’ve got to keep in mind that the one to be truly angry at is not the individuals, but the one who has tricked them into adopting their evil positions. That’s not to say that they should be given a pass…not hardly…but there is a far deeper issue involved here.
By the way, you may want to read the transcript of
this speech given by Archbishop Raymond Burke, prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, on the subject. You might want to keep it for reference when speaking to somebody from your parish. Some highlights:The lack of integrity in obeying the Magisterium is also seen in the hypocrisy of Catholics who claim to be practicing their faith but who refuse to apply the truth of the faith in their exercise of politics, medicine, business and the other human endeavors. These Catholics claim to hold “personally” to the truth of the faith, for example,regarding the inviolability of innocent and defenseless human life, while, in the political arena or in the practice of medicine, they cooperate in the attack on our unborn brothers and sisters, or on our brothers and sisters who have grown weak under the burden of years, of illness, or of special needs. Their disobedience pertains not tosome truth particular to the life of the Church, that is, not to some confessional matter, but to the truth of the divine natural law written on every human heart and, therefore, to be obeyed by all men.
and
When a person has publicly espoused and cooperated in gravely sinful acts, leading many into confusion and error about fundamental questions of respect for human life and the integrity of marriage and the family, his repentance of such actions must also be public. The person in question bears a heavy responsibility for the grave scandal which he has caused.
The responsibility is especially heavy for political leaders. The repair of such scandal begins with the public acknowledgment of his own error and the public declaration of his adherence to the moral law. The soul which recognizes the gravity of what he has done will, in fact, understand immediately the need to make public reparation.
(The transcript is 12 pages long, so obviously not something that can be posted here)
