Newspaper Wrong on How Pro-Life Catholic Voters Should Treat Abortion

[sertelt]

Newspaper Wrong on How Pro-Life Catholic Voters Should Treat Abortion
by Deal Hudson

To state that a political candidate doesn’t perfectly represent Church teaching obviously should not distract anyone from considering where those candidates stand on an intrinsic evil like abortion.

It isn’t the job of the Trenton Times to make theology for the Catholic Church – and Catholics won’t make the mistake of accepting it without recognizing the ruse that it is.

Full story at:
LifeNews.com/nat4095.html

 

[rpp]

Yeah. We have a couple of member on this forum who misrepresent the Church’s teaching in the same manner.

It is a popular thing for people who are actually pro-Abortion, but are not honest enough to admit it.

 

[estesbob]

Yeah. We have a couple of member on this forum who misrepresent the Church’s teaching in the same manner.

It is a popular thing for people who are actually pro-Abortion, but are not honest enough to admit it.

The latest dodge is to declare that you can not vote for a canidate if they allow for rape and incest abortions. In effect you cant vote , thus assuring that only pro-abortion canidates get elected. BUT you get to feel morally superior and chastise everyone else for being hypocrites,

 

[Dale_M]

Wow, Hudson Deal used the term “non-negotiable”. Since he is a big player that represents a victory for Catholic Answers (which pioneered use of that term with regard to voting).

 

[KathleenElsie]

lifenews.com/state3429.html

Diocese of Trenton Responds to Newspaper Story on Catholic Voters, Abortion
by Bishop John M. Smith of Trenton, New Jersey
August 5, 2008
The article in the 7/30 issue of the Trenton Times regarding the Diocese of Trenton’s presentation on the statement, “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship”, failed to provide your readers with an adequate understanding of this program and misrepresented the very spirit of the document.

“Vote your conscience,” as your headline says of the U.S. Bishops’ instruction, is a serious oversimplification that undermines the core message of their statement.
In truth, the Bishops state that Catholics are called to form their consciences in order to exercise faithful citizenship. The very title of the document points to the centrality of this message. Numerous sections of the document are devoted to the “lifelong obligation to form their consciences in accord with human reason and the teachings of the Church” (Section 17). …