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Posted on 01/21/2003 5:49:24 PM PST by TLBSHOW
Pro-Life Group to Identify Senate's 'Catholic' Supporters of Abortion
(AgapePress) - The largest pro-life group in America is preparing to "out" a contingent of pro-abortion Catholic U.S. senators it says comprise "the deadly dozen."
Many of the leading abortion advocates in Congress are Catholics. That has caused the Vatican to issue a letter of guidelines for Catholic office-holders, re-emphasizing the church's stance on abortion. Catholic activist Judie Brown of American Life League (ALL) has been calling for such action by the church leaders for years.
"There are far too many people in politics right now who call themselves Catholic who will say that that is just an opinion," Brown says. "If the [Catholic] bishops don't stand up and say that there is no excuse for any Catholic politician to favor abortion, then these guidelines [from the Vatican] are going to end up in the wastebasket."
According to Brown, the bishops have one main action they can take: deny those politicians access to the sacraments. "No Catholic politician who publicly is in favor of killing children should ever be given the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist -- ever," she says.
Brown plans to hold a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington on Wednesday morning to expose the pro-abortion Catholic members of the Senate, a group she has dubbed "the deadly dozen." The announcement will unveil the first phase of a three-part ad campaign.
According to a press release from ALL, the ad will feature Democratic Senator John Kerry, a 2004 presidential hopeful, who recently stated that while he claims to have "respect for the words and teachings of the Vatican," he cannot be "limited or conditioned by any religious oath, ritual, or obligation."
Brown's reaction? "Kerry's flagrant disregard for and disrespectful attitude towards the sacred teachings of his own church are precisely the reasons abortion was ever allowed to be legalized in the first place," she says.
She says that John F. Kennedy set a "deadly precedent" during his presidency when he failed to apply the moral teachings of the Catholic Church to his own decision-making process. "His legacy is the current culture of death perpetuated by his own brother [Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts], by Kerry, and the other ten members of the Senate Deadly Dozen," Brown says.
An Oxymoronic Group About a hundred members of Rock for Life -- a youth division of American Life League -- marched yesterday outside the Washington office of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC). The director of Rock for Life says any group that condones the killing of innocent life is not reading the Bible.
Carlton Veazey of the RCRC has hailed Roe v. Wade as "one of the great decisions of the Supreme Court." And his group is planning a church event on Wednesday called "From Generation to Generation: Celebrating 30 Years of Faithful Reproductive Choices."
But in an Associated Press report, Rock for Life president Bryan Kemper says Veazey's coalition deceives young people into believing that Christians can support abortion. He calls that unbiblical and an oxymoron.
"I believe the Bible is very clear that God is pro-life, that He is the creator of every single human person, and that no one has a right to take an innocent human life," Kemper says. "What they are doing, it's not following God -- it may be a false spirituality or a false god."
The RCRC discounts several Bible passages that conservative Christians believe demonstrate God's knowledge and recognition of unborn babies as individuals. The group says Psalm 139 -- specifically verses 13, 15, and 16 -- does not deal with abortion, but is "a poetic way of celebrating God's love for people."
Similarly, the group says Jeremiah 1:5 is not a "rational discourse" on how God creates people or "whether every fetus should be counted as a person."
The Bible, according to the RCRC, places full responsibility for procreation in the hands of the parents. In that light, the group states that requiring a woman to complete a pregnancy against her will "devalues" motherhood.
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We at the Catholic Family Association of America are working on getting a private audience with the Pope to present
1)the excommunication petition, to Excommunicate Culture of Death "Catholics" and
If you have not yet signed the excommunication petition, its not too late!
And please keep our efforts in your prayers, especially that our private audience with the Pope is secured and schedulued soon, to coincide with recent Vatican directives mentioned in the article above.
--Dr. Brian Kopp (Polycarp),
Vice President,
Catholic Family Association of America
Here is our request:
A Canonical Petition to Interdict or Excommunicate Culture of Death "Catholics"
TO:
Pope John Paul II,
Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church
Special Note: Part I of the petition requests changes in Canon 1398 to afford more protection for innocent life. Part II is a request for the 'medicinal' interdiction from the sacraments, pending repentance of grave public sin, and calls for excommunication of only those who stubbornly persist in supporting the Culture of Death. You incur no civil or financial liability in signing this petition.
FROM:
PETITIONERS
Mr. Stephen G. Brady, President, Roman Catholic Faithful
Dr. Craig Bozzacco, D.D.S., President, Dentists for Life
Mr. Michael Cain, Editor, The Daily Catholic
Mr. Vinny Ciappetta, President, National Cops for Life
Mr. Christopher A. Ferrara,
President, American Catholic Lawyers Association
Dr. Brian J. Kopp, Columnist,
Vice President, Catholic Family Association of America
Dr. Claude E. Newbury, President, Pro-Life South Africa; Founding Member, Intrnl. Right to Life
Regional Representative for Human Life Int.
Rev. Fr. John Trigilio, PhD, Editor, SAPIENTIA Magazine; Co-host EWTN's Web of Faith,
President, Confraternity of Catholic Clergy
Mrs. Judie Brown, President, American Life League, Inc.
Mr. Richard L. Bucci, President, Catholic Radio, NY
Mr. Timothy A. Chichester,
President, Catholic Family Association of America, Inc.
Mr. William Cotter, President, Operation Rescue-Boston
Dr. Chris Kahlenborn, Author, "Breast Cancer: It's Link to Abortion and the Birth Control Pill"
Mr. Phillip F. Lawler, Editor, Catholic World News
Charles P. Prezzia MD, MPH,
President, Catholic Medical Association
Mr. Joseph Scheidler, Director, Pro-Life Action League
Donna Steichen, Author of "Ungodly Rage"
Monica M. Miller, Ph.D., Author
(Remainder to be filled upon closing of the signatory phase)
WHEREFORE, Plaintiffs request the following relief:
A. That Pope John Paul II, Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church take jurisdiction of this petition.
B. That Canon 1398 be changed to read: "A person who deliberately enables an abortion or euthanization incurs a latae sententiae excommunication. An elected or appointed official who votes for legislation enabling abortion or euthanasia or who publicly propagandizes for or promotes abortion or euthanasia incurs a latae sententiae excommunication."
C. That he issue to the bishops specific directives concerning the implementation and enforcement of interdiction and excommunication for public promoters of abortion, euthanasia and other forms of direct attack upon life.
D. That he publicly order Defendants to:
1. Refrain from any act or statement which enables, supports or condones abortion, euthanasia and other
forms of direct attack upon life.
2. Publicly repent and retract their errors and promise no further acts and/or statements
which enable, support or condone abortion, euthanasia and other forms of direct attack upon life.
3. Refrain from reception of the sacrament of Eucharist until the above orders have been followed.
E. That he publicly declare that Defendants' acts and/or statements as alleged are:
1. Contrary to and inimical to the faith of the Catholic Church ;
2. A scandal to the Mystical Body of Christ, the faithful of the Catholic Church ; and
3. A sacrilege to the Real Body and Blood of Jesus Christ when Defendants receive
the sacrament of the Eucharist.
F. In the event that any Defendant fails to follow any of the above orders to publicly
excommunicate him or her from the Catholic Church .
Dated at (to be implemented upon closing of the signatory phase)
Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) Remarks at House Party Chris & Kristin Sullivan's Home:
Concord, NH, February 2, 2002 :
Of course, pre-natal care for women is crucial. But without promoting that agenda, you know the anti-choice agenda. I'm a deep believer in choice, and I think it is a mistake to do anything that would undermine that. [Inaud.] you're right there are clearly ways to provide women with pre-natal care that don't specifically require that.
[Re. the new executive regulation for the Child Health Insurance Program, which would define a fetus as a child to allow women to get pre-natal care].
The evil is so thick you could cut it with a knife.
What that place needs is some of that gas the Russians used in that theatre.
Real dumb. They ought to leave JFK out of it. RFK was a scumbag and Ted is fecal matter, but we are using JFK successfully on the tax issue. Don't muddy the waters. Plenty of current Catholics to smash without going after dead ones, especially iconic ones.
Listened to Dr. Dobson today on Focus on the Family-
The program had representatives from 3 mainline Protestant church denominations that have very questionable and ambiguous policies regarding abortions. Basically, the denominations give themselves cover by stating church policy against abortions, then... the denominations state church policy for abortions. The church doctrine / policies of these denominations are utterly contradictory. These same denominations lobby for abortion rights. Little to no evidence of lobbying for life issues.
The rogues gallery: United Methodist Church, Presbyterian Church-USA, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. These denominations are part and parcel of; the World Council of Churches.
Listen to today's broadcast here---> Focus on the Family link <---Listen to today's broadcast here. IMPORTANT ! VITAL !
These denominations are by no means the only ones that openly support abortions. They- and all others need to be outed, just as Judie Brown is to do tomorrow, regarding the US Senators that belong to the Catholic faith. 'OUT EM'
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