When a reporter at the Detroit Free Press, misinterpreted Cdl. Ratzinger's words, she printed this story.
Catholics allowed pro-choice vote .
A recently ordained priest, took her to task. In his homily, delivered this past Sunday, Fr. Paul Ward clarifies Cardinal Ratzinger's statements. "To vote for abortion is to collaborate in one of the gravest of all evils known to man. Such a voter becomes an accomplice in every abortion civil society commits, by endorsing it and giving civil power to those who support it. And it is never good to do evil."
St. Paul’s, Grosse Pointe, Sunday, September 11-12, 2004
Since then, the Detroit Free Press has turned up the heat. In an article published yesterday, the same journalist comments:
"About two dozen Catholics -- including several retired priests, pastors of two Detroit and Redford parishes and a local theologian -- announced the formation of Catholics for the Common Good, to encourage local Catholics to remember the traditional range of Catholic issues as they vote, including homelessness, health care, urban violence and the war in Iraq."
According to Rev. Norman Thomas:
"It's OK to vote for George Bush if your conscience and experience with life issues leads you to," said Thomas. "It's also OK to vote for John Kerry if your conscience and experience in life issues leads you to believe he can do a better job, which I do."
Catholic voters in abortion firestorm
Christ preached a gospel of love - unless you are born, you cannot experience that love. To equate social issues with destroying an unborn child, is beyond the pale.
First off, I am NOT surprised that this priest inserted his own 'feelings' and his own personal judgement in this issue. Why have a Magisterium if these guys wanna freelance?
The right to life is primary, every other 'right' flows from that. Those other 'rights' are meaningless unless one has a right to life in the first place.
I wish these voters could live in Massachusetts for a while and then tell me exactly what John Kerry has done for the people Massachusetts, never mind the people of the United States. He misses the majority of votes on a myriad of issues but he is ALWAYS present and eager to cast his vote defending all abortion 'rights' and furthering abortion 'rights' as much as possible. Although he says he believes life begins at conception, he votes to murder infants in the womb up to the day they would be naturally born (I cannot understand that at all). He opposes parental notification regarding minors who want an abortion. The school can't give them an aspirin and the kids can't have their ears pierced without parental OK, but when it comes to abortion, JK wants the parents in the dark.
Regarding other issues... where the heck does he stand on any one of them? War in Iraq? He was for it. Has he said he would do anything differently than GWB has done in Iraq? No. All he says is that he wants other countries as a coalition in there with the USA. Which is what we did back during the Gulf War and which is why we had to go back to Iraq again. To finish the job that the coalition didn't want to finish.
John Kerry is removed from the great unwashed masses. He lives a very different life than most people do. I remember when he had the city of Boston move a fire hydrant from in front of his 7 million dollar condominium on Beacon Hill because it annoyed him. Although the man is worth millions of dollars, the taxpayers paid for that.