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Bill Donahue and Catholic League: 'Catholic Left Hangs Itself '
Catholic Online ^ | 5/23/08 | William A. Donohue

Posted on 05/23/2008 5:39:26 AM PDT by tcg

The Catholic Left is hanging itself right before our eyes. Having never come to grips with the Church's teachings on sexuality, they are now tightening the noose on themselves in public.

It is not a pretty sight.

This month alone they have embroiled themselves in a debate with three separate archbishops, with no end in sight....

At bottom, it is not the Catholic Left's quarrel with three archbishops that is doing them in; it is their total failure to convince Catholics (as well as non-Catholics) that it is okay to vote for NARAL-approved candidates for public office and then claim with a straight face that this adequately represents the Catholic position.

Everyone knows this is bunk.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; bishops; catholic; catholicpoliticians; catholicvote; left; religiousleft
Why does the Catholic Left want to safeguard a right it prefers no one will exercise? And why does no one cheer when the right is exercised? This is the central question that continues to haunt them. It also explains their undoing.
1 posted on 05/23/2008 5:39:27 AM PDT by tcg
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To: tcg

The “Catholic Left” (to use this label) is based on power....not on AUTHENTIC spirituality or orthodoxy.


2 posted on 05/23/2008 5:45:21 AM PDT by SumProVita ("Cogito ergo sum pro vita." .....updated Descartes)
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To: tcg

When Ted Kennedy is buried, it will be with full honors in the Catholic Church. Ergo for Nancy Pelosi et al. That’s why there is no respect for RCC’s empty pronouncements about pro-abortion Catholics.


3 posted on 05/23/2008 5:47:09 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: kittymyrib

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4 posted on 05/23/2008 5:49:40 AM PDT by cornbreadmuffin
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To: SumProVita

What do you call a Catholic who believes in abortion?

An Episcopalian.


5 posted on 05/23/2008 5:50:24 AM PDT by y6162
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To: tcg
There is no longer a coherent Catholic left.

There was once such a thing: Catholics who were orthodox believers in the Church's doctrinal and moral teaching, and who were also very supportive of organized labor, social welfare programs and racial integration.

The problem for the Catholic left is that the secular left has now fully embraced divorce, fornication, bastardy, sodomy, contraception, abortion, infanticide and euthanasia as noble and essential causes. One cannot belong to the contemporary left without at least passively supporting this agenda.

It was possible for an authentically Catholic left to exist as recently as 1960.

It is not possible now. The nonnegotiable essentials of Catholic moral teaching are now considered ultra-right wing by both the secular left and the secular right.

6 posted on 05/23/2008 6:00:28 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: tcg
First if you are one of these left wing members of the devils brigade you cannot be a Catholic and to call yourself one is a disgrace that I hope will be put in the book and brought up at the hearing.
7 posted on 05/23/2008 6:05:32 AM PDT by YOUGOTIT (The Greatest Threat to our Security is the Royal 100 Club)
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To: YOUGOTIT

Oh! I forgot the NARAL is the same type organization as the NAMBLA.


8 posted on 05/23/2008 6:09:17 AM PDT by YOUGOTIT (The Greatest Threat to our Security is the Royal 100 Club)
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To: y6162
What do you call a Catholic who believes in abortion?

An atheist..........

9 posted on 05/23/2008 6:10:13 AM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: y6162

“What do you call a Catholic who believes in abortion?

An Episcopalian.”

Not necessarily. There are many GOOD Episcopalians who have not succumbed to relativist philosophy....and who understand that abortion is a horrendous evil.


10 posted on 05/23/2008 6:19:26 AM PDT by SumProVita ("Cogito ergo sum pro vita." .....updated Descartes)
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To: tcg

Leviticus 20 (New International Version)

1 The LORD said to Moses, 2 “Say to the Israelites: ‘Any Israelite or any alien living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death. The people of the community are to stone him. 3 I will set my face against that man and I will cut him off from his people; for by giving his children to Molech, he has defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name. 4 If the people of the community close their eyes when that man gives one of his children to Molech and they fail to put him to death, 5 I will set my face against that man and his family and will cut off from their people both him and all who follow him in prostituting themselves to Molech.


11 posted on 05/23/2008 6:19:52 AM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: y6162

“What do you call a Catholic who believes in abortion?

An Episcopalian.”

Not necessarily. There are many GOOD Episcopalians who have not succumbed to relativist philosophy....and who understand that abortion is a horrendous evil.


12 posted on 05/23/2008 6:21:44 AM PDT by SumProVita ("Cogito ergo sum pro vita." .....updated Descartes)
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To: tcg

The Catholic Left is hanging itself right before our eyes.

I’m not a Catholic but I’d like to help these people.


13 posted on 05/23/2008 6:30:53 AM PDT by freedomfiter2 (It's too bad I've already promised myself to never vote for McCain.)
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To: kittymyrib
When Ted Kennedy is buried, it will be with full honors in the Catholic Church.

That's quite an assumption you're making. If you turn out to be wrong will you admit it?

14 posted on 05/23/2008 6:37:00 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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To: tcg

With Hagee in the news I wish Bill Donahue and the Catholic Leauge would get vocal about about demanding he and his anti-Catholic televison shows be taken off the air. For those who don’t know he calls the Church a cult and has his own shows on religous cable channels seen over a wide part of the country. I can’t believe McCain accepted his endorsement in the first place if he wanted ANY Catholic voters.


15 posted on 05/23/2008 7:21:30 AM PDT by adele
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With Hagee in the news I wish Bill Donahue and the Catholic Leauge would get vocal about about demanding he and his anti-Catholic televison shows be taken off the air. For those who don’t know he calls the Church a cult and has his own shows on religous cable channels seen over a wide part of the country. I can’t believe McCain accepted his endorsement in the first place if he wanted ANY Catholic voters.

Joined today, I see.

16 posted on 05/23/2008 7:30:35 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Im-bechuqqotay telekhu; ve'et-mitzvotay tishmeru, va`asiytem 'otam.)
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To: SumProVita

So who’s gonna rewrite the Bible?


17 posted on 05/23/2008 8:09:50 AM PDT by griswold3 (Al queda is guilty of hirabah (war against society) Penalty is death.)
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To: tcg
If you are just religious, anything goes (leftie).

If you are a Christian, then you must adhere to the principles of the Bible.

Everyone should join a religion they agree with not join a religion and change it to what they believe.

18 posted on 05/23/2008 8:18:43 AM PDT by BillT (God said it, that settles it whether I believe it or not! (Bible rules))
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To: A.A. Cunningham
When Ted Kennedy is buried, it will be with full honors in the Catholic Church.

That's quite an assumption you're making. If you turn out to be wrong will you admit it?

And if it turns out to be true, what will you do? Will you come back here and admit you were wrong and that kittymyrib is right?

19 posted on 05/23/2008 8:34:18 AM PDT by BFM (CLINTON is and always will be a rapist. Never forget!)
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To: A.A. Cunningham; kittymyrib
>> When Ted Kennedy is buried, it will be with full honors in the Catholic Church.
> That's quite an assumption you're making. If you turn out to be wrong will you admit it?

If you knew the state of the "Catholic" hierarchy in Massachusetts, you'd know that kittymyrib has made a very valid and very probable point.

20 posted on 05/23/2008 8:58:00 AM PDT by NewJerseyJoe (Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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To: tcg

Catholics cannot vote for Obama because he is pro-abortion, in fact the most liberal pro-abortion senator in the current senate.

Catholics MUST vote for McCain.


21 posted on 06/06/2008 8:45:48 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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