Posted on 10/02/2012 8:31:56 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
Bishop Thomas John Paprocki from Springfield, Illinois, is getting attention after making some strongly-worded comments about those Americans who opt to vote for President Barack Obama in November. In a column and video that was posted by Catholic Times, the official newspaper of the Diocese of Springfield, Paprocki targeted portions of the Democratic platform that “explicitly endorse intrinsic evils.” He also warned that supporting certain politicians could place peoples’ “eternal salvation…in jeopardy.”
While he noted that it’s not his job to to tell people who do vote for, the faith leader said that he has a duty to speak out about moral issues. Despite his stated problems with the Democratic Party platform — the initial removal of God, its stance abortion and its support of gay marriage – Paprocki spoke relatively favorably of the Republican platform.
“I have read the Republican Party platform and there is nothing in it that supports or promotes an intrinsic evil or a serious sin,” he proclaimed.
While the bishop didn’t overtly name President Barack Obama as a poor candidate for people of faith to support, he invoked religious themes and warned of spiritual damnation if religious voters stand in support of politicians who “promote actions of behaviors that are intrinsically evil.”
“I am not telling you which party or which candidates to vote for or against. What I am saying is that you need to think and pray very carefully about your vote,” Paprocki said. “Because a vote for a candidate who promotes actions or behaviors that are intrinsically evil and gravely sinful makes you morally complicit and places the eternal salvation of your own soul in serious jeopardy.”
Indeed, if you are drug free, what fool thinks havin daddy O’s dealing and pushing the stuff in the house not make you take it and get addicted to it. Depressing people are known to pass their poison of depression just as it is...
If they keep this up, I must might return to the faith.”
One could have knocked me over with a feather when I read that a Catholic bishop made a clear defense of the faith as regards a political matter. I thought I would never see that in my lifetime. Who knows? Tomorrow, they may turn Nancy Pelosi away at Communion rail.
But no matter the politics, please return to the faith. The Church is so much more than the fallible men who make it up: she is the Bride of Christ.
with this and other scriptures, God's Word is unambiguous that giving tacit approval to evil acts is the same as committing the act oneself.
+1 bump.
You appear to be in error:
If the French can do it, we can do it too.
They can obtain public office even without running for it: Cardinal Richelieu = He was consecrated bishop on 17 April, 1607; Richelieu was named secretary of state on 30 November, 1616- 3 November, 1622, he was created cardinal by Gregory XV. On 19 April, 1624, he re-entered the Council of Ministers, and on 12 August, 1624, was made its president.
BTW, during the depression, my pastor was elected president of the local bank by the depositors and the bank board because he was trustworthy & knew how to handle money. The bank was the only one solvent in the county during the whole depression. YUP
You appear to be in error:
If the French can do it, we can do it too.
They can obtain public office even without running for it: Cardinal Richelieu = He was consecrated bishop on 17 April, 1607; Richelieu was named secretary of state on 30 November, 1616- 3 November, 1622, he was created cardinal by Gregory XV. On 19 April, 1624, he re-entered the Council of Ministers, and on 12 August, 1624, was made its president.
BTW, during the depression, my pastor was elected president of the local bank by the depositors and the bank board because he was trustworthy & knew how to handle money. The bank was the only one solvent in the county during the whole depression. YUP
This doctrine is not dogma = it can be reversed by any pope.
Father Ernesto Cardenal Martínez (born January 20, 1925) is a Nicaraguan CathoLIC PRIEST
On 19 July 1979, immediately after the Fall of Managua, he was named Minister of Culture by the new Sandinista regime. His brother Fernando Cardenal, also a Catholic priest (in the Jesuit order), was appointed Minister of Education.
Can. 285 §1. Clerics are to refrain completely from all those things which are unbecoming to their state, according to the prescripts of particular law.
§2. Clerics are to avoid those things which, although not unbecoming, are nevertheless foreign to the clerical state.
§3. Clerics are forbidden to assume public offices which entail a participation in the exercise of civil power.
Can. 287 §1. Most especially, clerics are always to foster the peace and harmony based on justice which are to be observed among people.
§2. They are not to have an active part in political parties and in governing labor unions unless, in the judgment of competent ecclesiastical authority, the protection of the rights of the Church or the promotion of the common good requires it.
§2. They are not to have an active part in political parties and in governing labor unions UNLESS in the judgment of competent ecclesiastical authority, the protection of the rights of the Church or the promotion of the common good requires it”. yupyupyup
YUP- FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTS OF THE CHURCH, IT IS NOT FORBIDDEN-YUP
It`s about time!
Anybody that votes Democrat in any way shape or form, spits on Christ
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