USCCB nixes Pro-Abortion Politicians Issue from the Agenda

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Why, Why, Why are they scrubbing this most important and I would say URGENT issue.:confused: The USCCB really needs to take the bull by the horns! It has been removed from the agenda?:banghead:
 
Teelynn said:
Why, Why, Why are they scrubbing this most important and I would say URGENT issue.:confused: The USCCB really needs to take the bull by the horns! It has been removed from the agenda?:banghead:
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Yes it has. According to one of the Bishops in the article, the issue has “evolved” or “developed” since September.
 
Teelynn said:
Why, Why, Why are they scrubbing this most important and I would say URGENT issue.:confused: The USCCB really needs to take the bull by the horns! It has been removed from the agenda?:banghead:
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I agree but I didn’t reallly expect action at this session anyway. At best, they might have forrmed a committee to “study” the issue. 😦
 
This is probably the second time this week I have been embarassed to be a Catholic.
 
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… the USCCB has changed its plan to talk about the issue of communion in regards to Pro-Abortion Politicians from the agenda the the Fall Meeting this week.
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Uuugh…the more I read about the USCCB, the more I want to leave the Church. They are causing quite a deal of **scandal to the faithful ** by their refusal to address issues. What exactly is this strategy accomplishing anyway? The faithful are disheartened. The ignorant remain in ignorance. *

They are not doing anyone any favors especially themselves. Because they are the Church leadership, God holds them to a higher standard than the laity. I wouldn’t want to be any one of them when they die and they have to explain to God why they felt it was more important to please the people & politicans rather than to please God. And how many of God’s children did they lead astray **both by causing the faithful to be disheartened & by failing to instruct the ignorant? ***
 
Does anyone know how this is handled in Europe, where abortion isn’t even as controversial as it is in the USA? Is it just accepted that Catholic politicians have to compromise on that issue if they want to be in politics?
 
Well, somebody didn’t get the memo about abortion being “off the agenda”:

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Cardinal Francis George, speaking this morning as president of the U.S. bishops’ conference, said all Americans should “rejoice” that a country which once tolerated slavery has elected an African-American as president – and, in the same breath, he issued a blunt challenge to the new administration on abortion.
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“If the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision, that African Americans were other people’s property and somehow less than persons, were still settled constitutional law, Mr. Obama would not be President of the United States,” George said.
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“Today, as was the case a hundred and fifty years ago, common ground cannot be found by destroying the common good,” he said.
“The common good can never be adequately incarnated in any society when those waiting to be born can be legally killed at choice,” George said, drawing sustained applause from the bishops.
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“We are perhaps at a moment when, with the grace of God, all races are safely within the American consensus,” George said. “We are not at the point, however, when Catholics, especially in public life, can be considered full partners in the American experience unless they are willing to put aside some fundamental Catholic teachings on a just moral and political order.”
George issued a strong call for unity in the church.
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“Those who would impose their own agenda on the church, those who believe and act self-righteously, answerable only to themselves, whether ideologically on the left or right, betray the Lord Jesus,” he said.
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Perhaps it would be a good idea for those of us who feel the Bishops need to be more vocal about good and evil should send emails to our local Bishop and express, kindly and with great reverence, our concerns and our desire for them to take this issue, especially with Catholic legislators whose voting records are public domain and giving the church a bad name, seriously and make some decisions for the good of the United States Catholic Church. We have enough trouble in this country without this much trouble within. While there are many Bishops, like Chaput, Sheridan, Bruskewitz, Ricard, etc…, there are many more that may be trying to hard to be “Pastoral” and not driving anyone away from the church by calling them to account for their decisions. It may be better to have a smaller, stronger Church that to have a weak, rebellious one. Being Catholic is something to be proud of and there have been people leaving ever since 1517 because they think being Catholic is too hard. No one said life was fair or easy and, if they did, they lied.
 
Ok, now I am confused. According to the article that the Blog links to says that Mary Ann Walsh, the USCCB spokesperson said the topic was taken off the Agenda, but now it seems like it will be discussed? I’m not sure what to make of this.
 
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