Posted on 04/20/2005 8:13:14 PM PDT by neverdem
Mario Cuomo better bone up on his oratory skills because, heaven knows, when he meets St Peter at the gate, he's gonna need them.
God could perhaps be consulted through prayer.
MCbrien doesn't understand that the pope rejects his world view . Pope Benedict understand implicitly the views of someone like John Kerry. probably beters than Kerry himself does
St. Peter has met many a Jesuit,so Cuomo's casuistry will be lost on him.
Right. What about it? You got a problem with that?
Mario, like always, selectively quotes the Church. Catholic teaching says nothing about the war in Iraq. Pope John Paul II stood against it, but said nothing about how participating in the war was, for a Catholic, sinful activity. On the matter of the death penalty the Pope spoke more directly, but he called it wrong in almost all circumstances. Again he never said that a Catholic participating in a court prescribed execution was sinful. On the other hand abortion is most certainly identified as EVIL, and participation or facilitation of the taking of innocent life is always a sin of great gravity. It's just unfortunate that the mental media midgets who interview Cuomo don't know or don't care to know the great differences in the Church positions on these topics.
It's so like the NYT to put the word "life" in quotation marks in this headline.
Anyone who doesn't think the very definition of "life" is presently up for grabs should take a look at this headline.
The MSM has been seething about the outpouring of affection for JPII. Now that the Church has chosen someone of similar thinking, i.e. a conservative, to be Pope, they're pulling out all the long knives. They're venting because, like the last 2 Presidential elections, they've been unable to shape the outcome to their liking.
That's it. War and capital punishment are not always wrong. Abortion is always evil. it's those moral absolutes they have difficulty with.
Stupid Bill O'Reilly had on a FABULOUS Priest tonite, Fr. Gerald Murray (?) a Canon Law Priest and BOR almost was spitting when Fr. Murray was so anti abortion and hard lined about pro-abortion politicians and Americans in general. It was a thing to behold!!!
I'll give up the death penalty for no more abortions, but the criminals have to have a LIFE sentence....only coming out in a box.....PERIOD. The libs would have to rejoinder to that.
The left either doesn't see, or doesn't want to see, that there's a difference between abortion and capitol punishment. To them, liberating 24 million people in Iraq from tyranny is bad, but starving a woman to death is A-OK! I gave up trying to figure out liberals years ago. They just are too illogical.
True.
Wonder when Kerry, Cuomo. Leahy and the Times Editorial staff will grant the Pope an audience and explain to him the error of his ways?
The pro-death community is too impatient.
Meanwhile, other American bishops decided to play tennis or take a walk in the park in order to avoid a confrontation with dissident Catholics over the Church's teaching on these "Life" issues of dubious importance. /sarcasm>
I wouldn't hold my breath. Benedict XVI has better things to do than waste his time with those losers.
In 1960 there was no Roe v Wade decision, nor an imminent social security crisis due to falling numbers of populaces to support the "Great Society".
If the Catholic Church takes a different path, a more liberal path, you can expect an expansion of an "Ingrate Society" that will eventually devour itself, just what so many lefties and anarchists have been trying to facilitate for so long.
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