CORNER BROOK, NFLD, June 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic priest Father
\nDes McGrath is running for the NDP in the Newfoundland riding of Random-Burin-St.
\nGeorge’s. Since the NDP are officially pro-abortion Rev. McGrath has been often
\nasked about what he would do on abortion if elected.\n<\/p>\n
The Globe and Mail reports today that Rev. McGrath told reporters who questioned
\nhim on abortion, "You people on the mainland seem to be more interested
\nin that than any other issue in Canada — and we got more serious issues right
\nnow." The 69-year-old priest is a celebrated figure for having started
\na union for fishermen.<\/p>\n
While claiming to be pro-life, Fr. McGrath is quoted using well worn pro-abortion
\nrhetoric in speaking on abortion. "I don’t believe in stirring up the
\npot and stirring up old ashes on this," he said in response to dealing
\nwith abortion in Parliament. "Responsibility goes with the rights that
\nwomen have over their own bodies and hopefully the decision that they make
\nwould be for pro-life."<\/p>\n
Not only is Fr. McGrath taking a non-Catholic position on abortion, it appears I wonder if he thinks that a woman’s rights over her body extend CORNER BROOK, NFLD, June 23, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic priest Father Des McGrath is running for the NDP in the Newfoundland riding of Random-Burin-St. George’s. Since the NDP are officially…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pro-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nhe is also being allowed by his bishop to defy church discipline that explicitly
\nprohibits Catholic priests from running for any public office.
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\nto suicide? I wonder what issue he considers more serious than the plague of
\nabortion or does social justice end at entrance of the womb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"