Catholic Bishop: Ask God to Forgive America for Giving $500M to Planned Parenthood

CNS News ^ | 8/24/15

[markomalley]

Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of Springfield, Ill., said in a video statement yesterday that the United States needs a “national humiliation, fasting and prayer” like the one President Abraham Lincoln called in 1863 in an era when many Americans denied the full humanity of African Americans.

“President Lincoln lived in a time when many people thought that African-Americans were not fully human,” Bishop Paprocki said. “The United States Supreme Court in fact declared as much in its infamously erroneous Dred Scott decision of 1857. But in our own time the Supreme Court continues to make wrongful decisions, as it did in 1973 in Roe v. Wade in deciding that unborn babies do not deserve the protection of the law, as well as this past June in attempting to redefine marriage contrary to the plan of God as described in the Book of Genesis.”

“Let us ask forgiveness,” said the bishop, “for our nation giving half a billion dollars every year of taxpayer money to Planned Parenthood, founded by Margaret Sanger, a proponent of eugenics who urged Americans to ‘restrict the propagation of those physically, mentally and socially inadequate’ and said that the ‘most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.’"

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Here is an excerpt from Bishop Paprocki’s video statement:

In his Proclamation calling for "A Day of National Humiliation, Fasting, and Prayer in the United States of America on April 30, 1863," President Abraham Lincoln said that "it is the duty of all nations as well as of men, to owe their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord."

President Lincoln went on to "request all the People to abstain on that day from their ordinary secular pursuits, and to unite, at their several places of public worship and their respective homes, in keeping the day holy to the Lord, and devoted to the humble discharge of their religious duties proper to that solemn occasion."

President Lincoln lived in a time when many people thought that African-Americans were not fully human. The United States Supreme Court in fact declared as much in its infamously erroneous Dred Scott decision of 1857. But in our own time the Supreme Court continues to make wrongful decisions, as it did in 1973 in Roe v. Wade in deciding that unborn babies do not deserve the protection of the law, as well as this past June in attempting to redefine marriage contrary to the plan of God as described in the Book of Genesis.

As a result, our nation is in need of "national humiliation, fasting and prayer" now as it was in the time of President Lincoln's Proclamation. He said then, and we may say it even more strongly now, that we "have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!"

So let us humble ourselves and pray to Almighty God to forgive our sins, especially the sins of abortion, sins of racism, sins against the divine and natural law of marriage, sins of greed, gluttony, anger, envy, lust, laziness and pride.

Let us ask forgiveness for our nation giving half a billion dollars every year of taxpayer money to Planned Parenthood, founded by Margaret Sanger, a proponent of eugenics who urged Americans to "restrict the propagation of those physically, mentally and socially inadequate" and said that the "most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."

[markomalley]

PP was founded by one of the most evil women of the 20th Century, if not THE most evil woman of the 20th Century. She was a Eugenicist who wanted to wipe out whole populations.

Just take a look at the masthead of the Birth Control Review, the Journal of the Birth Control League (predecessor to Planned Butcherhood):

In case you think that the masthead might be inartfully worded pap and not their real agenda, please note the title of an article from another issue of that rag:

Or we have this article from April 1933 ("The Sterilization Issue"):

(My question is which leftist determines who is socially inadequate?)

In case this is not sufficient, here's another example. You've heard, of course, of the Negro Project, right? It was an effort to place their eugenic clinics in black neighborhoods...to make sure that their gene pool would be cut off. In this 12/10/1939 letter to Charles Gamble, founder of P&G, she discloses:

If you take a look at page 102 of the April, 1933 issue of the Birth Control Review (Sanger's Journal of her Birth Control League which, after the war, morphed into Planned Butcherhood) you will note an interesting article titled, Eugenic Sterilization: An Urgent Need. The doctor was Dr. Ernst Rüdin. In case you're not familar, Dr. Ernst Rüdin was honored by Hitler as being the "pioneer of the racial-hygienic measures of the Third Reich." He was one of the collaborators of Margaret Sanger.

[markomalley]

planned butcherhood ping

[don-o]

Get back to me When the Bishops stop giving the Eucharist to enablers of abortion.

[markomalley]

Get back to me When the Bishops stop giving the Eucharist to enablers of abortion.

From 2014: US: Pro-abortion politicians are denied Communion

Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, who is well known for his fervent defence of the right to life and the natural family, has sent out a strong message, publicly announcing his support for priests who call themselves Catholics but refuse to administer Communion to Catholic politicians who favour policies that go against the Church’s teaching.

 

According to Lifesitenews, the prelate wrote to a pro-life activist explaining that he fully supports the decision taken by a priest in his diocese to deny the Eucharist to Senator Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois. Durbin has a 100% rating from NARAL Pro-Choice America and Planned Parenthood which favours abortion.

 

The content of Bishop Paprocki’s email was published by Catholic commentator Matt Abbott. “Senator Durbin was informed several years ago by his pastor at Blessed Sacrament Parish here in Springfield that he was not permitted to receive Holy Communion per canon 915 of the Code of Canon Law,” Paprocki wrote. “My predecessor upheld that decision and it remains in effect. It is my understanding that the senator is complying with that decision here in the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois,” the prelate wrote.

 

Canon 915 stipulates that “Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to holy communion.” The local diocese explained that canon 915 leaves it up to the individual ministers to decide when to deny someone Communion, whereas canon 916 leaves the decision up to the faithful, in cases where they are conscious of having committed a grave sin. Naturally, this is the subject of much debate in the Church because some bishops claim that to deny someone Communion would turn the Eucharist into a political weapon. But as others rightly say, denying the Eucharist to someone who has sinned gravely is an act of charity because it prevents the individual in question from committing sacrilege. It also prevents a scandal in the Christian community.

Paprocki is one of the rare exceptions to the sad rule in this country.

[huldah1776]

When Israel practiced child sacrifice, the king, Manasseh, repented and tore down all the altars. His grandson, Josiah, lead a great revival but his son started the practice again and it was then that Judah experienced the wrath of God. They were invaded.

“However, the LORD did not turn from the fierceness of His great wrath with which His anger burned against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked Him. And the LORD said, “I will remove Judah also from My sight, as I have removed Israel. And I will cast off Jerusalem, this city which I have chosen, and the temple (house) of which I said, ‘My name shall be there.’”

“Surely at the command (mouth) of the LORD it came upon Judah, to remove them from His sight because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done, and also for the innocent blood which he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; AND THE LORD WOULD NOT FORGIVE.” (All caps mine) 2 Kings 23: 26 & 27 and 24: 3 & 4

Delayable only.

[Remole]

Thank you for bringing evidence of Bp. Paprocki’s courage re: Canon 915. Bp. Paprocki is a prelate whose every word, spoken and written, is worth reading. He is brave and clear, and his essays are well thought out and elaborate on important issues of culture and religion.

[sparklite2]

I’m not into identity politics or identity religion, either.

For purposes of salvation/forgiveness, he American construct exists only as the sum of millions of individuals. There is no immanentized willful consciousness “America” that is capable of being forgiven.

It’s similar to what Margaret Thatcher said, ie, that there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families.

The OT Yahweh was into punishing populations for the sins of a few, but the NT God seems to be more concerned with the individual.

[mlizzy]

Bishop Paprocki is the real deal. Always good to hear his words; thank you.

[markomalley]

The OT Yahweh was into punishing populations for the sins of a few, but the NT God seems to be more concerned with the individual.

The OT Yahweh is the same as the NT God.

Suggest that you look at 2 Peter 2:5-6. Also Rom 15:4.

You should recall that the time documented in the New Testament covered a few decades, as compared to millennia for the Old Testament.

[marron]

For America to be forgiven, it first must want to be forgiven, and that means America would have to repent.

Criminal prosecution the executives of Planned Parenthood would be a good place to start. In a repentant America these people would not be walking around free, they would be behind bars.

[don-o]

has sent out a strong message, publicly announcing his support for priests who call themselves Catholics but refuse to administer Communion to Catholic politicians who favour policies that go against the Church’s teaching.

I realize Paprocki is one of the (very few) good guys, but "announcing his support for priests...." makes it sound like his Priests are independent contractors. The Orthodox do not consider it such. Priests are to stand in place of the Bishops. Demanding obedience is the correct attitude here.

[jafojeffsurf]

Thanks Bishop Thomas John Paprocki

Great Post!

[Campion]

If Bishop Paprocki were a hypocrite (he is not), that would not change the truth of his message one bit. We are in desperate trouble as a nation and need to repent and beg God’s forgiveness. If the world’s worst sinner tells you that, that doesn’t make it any less true.

[asyouwish]

Well said....as usual :-)

[Clintonfatigued]

Americans did not do this knowingly or willingly. Politicians did this mostly behind the American people’s backs. Even now, the average citizen here has no idea what’s going on behind Planned Parenthood’s doors.