This is why I have not been supportive of Campaign for Human Development of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
The Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Catholic Charities plans to sever its two-year funding relationship with an adoption agency, Family Builders by Adoption, that focuses on placing children with homosexuals.
“The funding from Catholic Charities is ending this [budget] year,” Jill Jacobs, executive director of Family Builders by Adoption, told Our Sunday Visitor Sept. 25. Catholic Charities CYO currently provides two staff members for the agency at a cost of about $250,000 annually.
It is not clear what motivated the decision, which means the archdiocese will no longer have any involvement with adoptions. A Catholic Charities spokeswoman declined to comment.
Well that is good news, though they should never have contracted with them in the first place. Previously they had sent paid staff to “Family Builders by adoption” whose goal was “Increasing the number of children adopted by Lesbian, Gay Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) adults.” What is sad is how the homosexual lobby has pushed Catholics out of providing adoptions in California and Massachusetts. The goal of the homosexual lobby is not about tolerance but forced acceptance and the Catholic faith has to be pushed into the closet.
Hat tip to Fr. John Malloy, SDB who has been on the forefront with coverage on this for the last couple years.
When a candidate pledges to provide “comprehensive sex education” to school children and promises to promote – or to “sign immediately upon taking office” – the Freedom of Choice Act, Catholics and all people of good will have cause to question the sincerity of the candidate’s determination to reduce abortions, when these already existing limits have caused a decrease of more than 100,000 abortions each year. (cf. Michael New-Matthew Bowman, Combined Reductions in Abortions, with data supplied by NARAL Pro-Choice America)
As Archbishop Naumann and I stressed in our recent Pastoral Letter, “Our Moral Responsibility as Catholic Citizens,” we can never vote for a candidate because of his or permissive stand on abortion. At the same time, if we are inclined to vote for someone despite their pro-abortion stance, it seems we are morally obliged to establish a proportionate reason sufficient to justify the destruction of 45 million human persons through abortion. If we learn that our “candidate of choice” further pledges – through an instrument such as FOCA – to eliminate all existing limitations against abortion, it is that much more doubtful whether voting for him or her can ever be morally justified under any circumstance.
I urge you to learn more about the Freedom of Choice Act and its advocates so that you can make informed decisions in the voting booth.
Hat Tip Insight Scoop
Back in July Obama said “The first thing I’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act,” So we know where his real priorities are. No working towards reducing abortion, but working towards reducing people. The decline in abortion has been largely because of laws like parental notification and without those restrictions, once again abortion would be on the increase. Remember also that the Democratic platform eliminated references to making abortion rare, but in fact strengthened their support of it. But facts are no deterrent to Obama Catholics. I certainly believe there are valid reasons not to vote for Sen. McCain, but I can’t think of any to vote for Sen. Obama.
I was wrong about the first McCain/Obama debate. A third of the way through the event, I said to one of my guests, “My guy is getting creamed!” Note that I did not say, “My candidate is being beaten into the ground.” I don’t have a candidate. Priests, like columnists, are not supposed to endorse a candidate. But one of the candidates is from my state and my city, and we shared a pulpit once. So of course I hope he wins. But that doesn’t mean I endorse him. As I have said repeatedly in this column, I think he will lose because the country is not ready for a smart, attractive, charismatic man — if he has skin slightly darker than a Sicilian’s.
If you couldn’t tell, this is classic Fr. Andrew Greeley.
He is from my state, city, far left side of the political divide, and we shared a pulpit! Of course I hope he wins. Never mind that his positions are intrinsically evil – we shared a pulpit doncha know. You must be racist if you can’t get past his support of abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, cloning, ESCR, and homosexual marriage. Yes presidential affirmative action – vote for him even if you think he is a moral disaster. Otherwise not only will we throw the race card at you we make it a presidential race card.
“Go after him,” I screamed.
“He’s just being a gentlemen,” my friend insisted.
“Nice guys,” I shouted, citing a one-time manager of the Cubbies, “finish last!”
Naturally I couldn’t sleep that night. At 3 a.m., I crawled out of bed and turned on a cursed machine to read the data from the instant surveys.
Please breath in and breath out Fr. “I don’t have a candidate” Greeley. Yes Sen. Obama was really being a gentleman by calling Sen. McCain “John” repeatedly.
Now you might rightly ask why are you even paying attention to a Fr. Greeley article in the first place? Maybe I am like a dissident paleontologists. Even though these progressive dinosaurs are on the way out, they are still fascinating creatures. The contradictions between their faith and what they advocate is an interesting case study. Though looking at the history of the Church the DIssentosaurus never quite goes extinct.
Hat Tip Matthew K.
I am a Catholic and I am anti-slavery. I deplore slavery and have been an active part of the abolitionist movement. But this November of the year of Our Lord 1860 I am voting for Stephen A. Douglas.
Now I know my announcement will befuddle many Catholics who think that Abraham Lincoln is the only possible choice if you are truly as anti-slavery as I say I am. Some of my friends ask me how can I possibly support Senator Douglas when he was largely responsible for the Compromise of 1850 and supported the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision of 1857?
Though Senator Douglas does not regard a slaveholding society as one whit inferior to a free society I think he is the best choice to reduce slavery. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 proves that he is pro-choice on the issue of slavery since the act allowed these new states coming into the union to make up their own mind as to whether slavery should be allowed in their territory. He lets the people in the state decide as to whether slavery is moral or immoral. Surely this will limit slavery and as we work for a more just society more and more slaveowners will decide to reduce the number of slaves they own. Just because Sen. Douglas has invoked racist rhetoric and accused Lincoln of supporting black equality which he believes the authors of the Declaration of Independence did not intend, does not mean that he is pro-slavery. Even supporters of slavery can be conflicted about slavery and whether blacks are equal to us or not and we should work to move to a society where slavery is safe, legal, and rare. Plus it is not true to call him pro-slavery. He is for the choice of slavery and people can decide on their own whether they want to become slaveowners or not. Shouldn’t we let people make their own choices on this issue? Do we really want to legislate morality? Now as a Catholic I personally believe that slavery is wrong, but lawmakers need to represent the people.
Catholics should not be single issue voters and let slavery dominate the discussion. Human dignity and the acceptance of the government of human rights is just one issue of many. What about economic and other social justice issues? The election of Lincoln could even lead to civil war. Do we want a president whose “personal” moral code could lead us to war with all of the horrific deaths that could result? Plus if a war does start no doubt someone like Mr Lincoln would infringe on our civil liberties by suspending the right of Habeas Corpus.
This year the best choice to reduce slavery is to vote Sen. Douglas.
Signed Douglas Kmiec
SALEM — Archbishop John Vlazny is criticizing Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski, a Catholic, for playing host to an abortion rights fundraiser Friday night in Portland.
Vlazny, head of the Archdiocese of Portland, said it’s an embarrassment and a scandal for Catholics that Kulongoski is hosting the event two days before the church conducts its annual “Respect Life” mass in Portland to show opposition to abortion.
“For a Catholic governor to host an event of this sort seems a deliberate dissent from the teachings of the church,” Vlazny said in a statement today.
Kulongoski is a longtime supporter of a woman’s right to choose an abortion.
“The archbishop is the governor’s pastor, and he has only respect and admiration for the archbishop,” Kulongoski spokeswoman Anna Richter Taylor said. “They obviously disagree on the issue of choice.”
Kulongoski and his wife, Mary Oberst, are the honorary hosts of Friday night’s fundraising dinner for NARAL Pro Choice Oregon. U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is among those scheduled to speak. The event is to be held at a Portland hotel.
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Raymond Arroyo quipped about all of these bishop’s speaking out that we are having “bishop eruptions” in contrast to the “bimbo eruptions” of the Clinton years.
New Orleans, Sep 30, 2008 / 03:20 am (CNA).- Archbishop of New Orleans Alfred C. Hughes has criticized a Louisiana lawmaker’s proposal to pay poor women to sterilize themselves, calling it “seriously wrong,” “blatantly anti-life,” and a “form of eugenics.”
Louisiana’s Rep. John LaBruzzo, a Republican from Metairie, last week said he is studying a plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have their Fallopian tubes tied.
His proposal would also cover other forms of birth control, such as vasectomies for men, and could also encourage tax incentives for college-educated, higher-income people to have more children, the Times-Picayune reports.
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This has been a bad election year with unsatisfactory candidates. We have one candidate who supports abortion, infanticide in some cases, ESCR, cloning, euthanasia, and homosexual marriage. And the other candidate supports ESCR. So while I vote for the greatest good I was pretty happy to find that I now have another choice in this election and I totally endorse them. I will let this video make the case for me.
Kudos to Martin Sheen for his radio ad critical of the Washington state physician-assisted suicide initiative.
ROME (CNS) — The Democratic
Party in the United States "risks
transforming itself definitively into a ‘party of death,’" said U.S. Archbishop Raymond L. Burke, prefect of the Vatican’s highest court.
…Archbishop Burke was asked if he knew that the August Democratic National
Convention in Denver featured a guest appearance by Sheryl Crow, a musician
whose performance
at a 2007 benefit for a Catholic children’s hospital the archbishop had opposed
because of her support for abortion and embryonic stem-cell research.
"That does not surprise me much," the
archbishop said. "At this point the Democratic Party risks transforming itself definitely into
a ‘party of death’ because of its choices on bioethical questions as Ramesh
Ponnuru wrote in his book, ‘The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the
Courts and the Disregard for Human Life.’"
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Sheryl Crow appearing there is not as big of deal as Nancy Keenan, President
of NARAL and Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards being some of the speakers
there. I think "risks transforming itself definitively" is a charitable view of what has happened
since really they passed this point awhile ago.
Though the Republicans can’t exactly call themselves the Party of Life with the
support of some forms of ESCR by some Republicans including Sen. McCain. While
it was a good sign that rank-and-file Republicans for the most part were not
going to support pro-abortion Mayor Giuliani there were still plenty that were
willing to accept him just as long as he was strong on national security. We
must never minimize evil just because one party or candidate is less evil than
the other.