My faith influences a great deal about my politics. Find me a true pro-life candidate, and I’ll vote for him/her. I’m not going to surrender my vote like a lemming to someone who’s idea of being pro-life is phoning into the Roe V. Wade march once a year, telling people they are doing a good job…and then proceeds to bomb a country and preside over executions.
How the holy father deals with dissenting politicians and priests, that’s his decision not yours! Your not the pope, Benedict is. Are criticizing John Paul II and saying he wasn’t a very good pope? Sure sounds that way. Don’t take powers that don’t belong to you. I don’t like the idea of dissenting politicians taking holy communion myself, that’s something that should be settled long before they enter the communion rail. Do you claim to know canon law better than the pope? You don’t.
By supporting PP, NARAL, and NOW without questioning their motives and agenda, sadly, they are advocating people have abortions.
If I understand you correctly, and I’m not sure that I do
, I think your wrong about that. If GWB hadn’t been elected we’d have had 2 arch-liberals bent on interpreting the Constitution according to the ideology of the far left instead of 2 constructionist who will interpret the Constitution based on what it says, not on what they read into it. And that is very important.Tell that to the state legislators of Kansas and Mississippi.
Well, be assured that I do not vote on a single issue, and unlike you, I am not so pessimistic about the candidates I chose being able to make progress (perhaps not total success, but progress) on the issue of abortion.
Then why have PP, NARAL and NOW been taking the kudos for abortions going down? They have you know, and it’s in part because of the Republican government we have had the good fortune to have in place instead of a Democratic one that aids and abets these death dealing institutions with money and political support.
I’m not “taking any powers”, but I am acting in accord with Lumen Gentium. St. Catherine of Sienna was critical of the pope’s decisions. I have the right to manifest my opinion. If that pops your gasket, so be it. You flaming me for exercising my right and obligition as a Catholic is absurd.
Wow, I finally get to see a liberal openly admit that the democrats are commies. That just makes my day…
I wrote: “Tell that to the state legislators of Kansas and Mississippi.” That should have been South Dakota, not Kansas (must have been in Oz with Dorothy and Toto or something!
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Then why did you imply that there might be something worse than the abortion debate (47 million dead) looming on the horizon? Now if you indeed recognize the worth of one human life then that unborn being in the womb deserves to live. Certainly God would never have reason to take human life. It seems there may be some things we can agree upon.
Then I sincerely apologize for misinterpreting your post. Often, when the Clinton years statistic is provided, it is used as evidence that the best way to beat abortion is not by the Republican method of outlawing it but by the Democratic method of puting more money into the welfare state.
Your right you do have the right to your opinions. You avoided my question. Are you saying that John Paul II didn’t do his job? Funny cause Cardinal Arinze on Febuary 11, 2005 said “The answer is clear. If a person says they are in favor of killing unborn babies whether they be four thousand or five thousand, then they are in favor of killing them. I will be in favor of killing them next week and next year. So, unborn babies, too bad for you. I am in favor that you should be killed, then the person turns around and says I want to recieve holy communion. Do you need a Cardinal to answer to that?”
The Russian Form of Communism.More accurately called Lenninism or Stalinism has diferences from pure communism of the Karl Marx variety.
What are his faith based initiatives about? Who are they benefitting? He feels these to be the most effective delivery system rather than a cold bloated government.
The purpose of faith based initiatives is to give government money to help those organizations that have programs that work i.e. drug treatment programs, programs to help homeless, etc. I believe that the thought (and I agree) is that government can’t do everything and if a private source is getting results, they should be assisted.
The big difference between Marxism and, say, Stalinism is this: Marx only advocated mass murder as a means of transforming society into utopia. Stalin, and every other Marxist/Marxian leader ever, has taken the next step actually using mass murder to try to perfect society.
I’m sorry, but maybe my Scripture is a little hazzy. Where in the Bible did Jesus condemn the Roman Empire for its inability to help the poor? Where did Jesus command the leading government figures to take responsibility for helping the poor?
I think John Paul II did a wonderful job, but I think he could have done better. For examples, see the article by Fr. Brian Harrison, here…
Yes, and this is a source of my frustration. We need more St. Ambrose type responses to public sin, I think.
You have a right to be upset. Many of the bishops don’t have a good understanding of the episcobacy themselves. The roots of that are bad training in the seminaries. Even after the new directories for seminaries passed, many dioceses ignored them. As a result many pastors are dancing their merry way to hell.
You are nearly correct on everything except one point that I must make. IF Kerry has been reprimanded that would be by his archbishop- now cardinal - who is obliged to make it public if Kerry persists in heresy by publicly flaunting his support for abortion. The holy father is not to blame; the Cardinal is. I assure you that if the holy father reprimanded Kerry we would see information about in the media. But the fact of the matter is this, the hierarchy have the responsibility for handling heretics in their own specific, dioceses. Don’t blame the pope.
