I think in many cases it becomes the right decision and the only
choice.
So says Bishop Paul Coakley of Salina regarding Obstinate Pro-Abortion
Catholic Politicians. Roman
Catholic Blog has more on a story form LifeSite news.
Roman Catholic Blog also
posts an open letter to nancy Pelosi
from Fr. Malloy.
Nancy, you are fooling yourself and I fear fooling many good
Catholics. You are simply not in sync with the Catholic Church. Until you change
your non-Catholic positions, you should stop calling yourself Catholic. Your
record shows that you support embryonic stem cell research, Planned Parenthood,
contraception, family planning funding, allowing minors to have an abortion
without parental consent, and are against making it a crime to harm a fetus,
etc. etc.
The fact that you favor married priests and women priests certainly would
not classify you as conservative, but your answer to the question are you a
conservative Catholic was:
“I think so. I was raised in a very strict upbringing in a Catholic home
where we respected people, were observant, were practicing Catholics, and that
the fundamental belief was that God gave us all a free will, and we were accountable
for that, each of us. Each person had that accountability, so it wasn’t
for us to make judgments about how people saw their responsibility and that it
wasn’t for politicians to make decisions about how people led their personal
lives; certainly, to a high moral standards, but when it got into decisions about
privacy and all the rest, then that was something that individuals had to answer
to God for, and not to politicians.”
That sounds fair and tolerant, but your record belies high moral standards.
The NARL rates you 100% pro-abortion. Your statement: “To me it isn’t
even a question. God has given us a free will. We’re all responsible
for our actions. If you don’t want an abortion, you don’t believe
in it, [then] don’t have one. But don’t tell somebody else what
they can do in terms of honoring their responsibilities. My family is very
pro-life. They’re not fanatics and they’re not activists. I think
they’d like it if I were not so vocally pro-choice.”
Do we not elect politicians to make laws that help people
honor their responsibilities, such as protecting life itself? Can politicians
not tell someone else not to
kill? If you can kill a baby in the womb, Nancy, why not outside of it? Oh
wait, you are in favor of partial birth abortion, so-called because the baby
sticks out of the “mother” about halfway, while the “doctor” sucks
out the baby’s brain. That seems comparable to the choice the Nazis made killing
six million Jews.
Yes, Nancy, we (together with your pro-life family) would all like it if
you were not so vocally pro-choice, i.e. pro-death. Until your choice is in
line with Catholic doctrine, please, Nancy, do not receive the Eucharist when
you attend Mass.
Rev. John Malloy, SDB
San Francisco, CA
