Posted on 05/17/2007 5:36:39 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
FRONT ROYAL, Va., May 17 /Christian Newswire/ -- The Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer, STL, president of Human Life International, (HLI) today said "Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro (CT-3) and seventeen other members of Congress who describe themselves as Catholic not only are ignorant of their faith but also need a civics lesson."
Father Euteneuer was responding to their rebuke of Pope Benedict XVI in a press release from DeLauro's office which stated that the Pope's recent comments that Catholic politicians risk excommunication and should not receive Communion by saying, "Such notions offend the very nature of the American experiment and do a great disservice to the centuries of good work the church has done."
Father Euteneuer said, "It is an embarrassment that a Catholic, much less a member of Congress should make such an absurd statement. Even if this statement were true, the Holy Father answers to a Higher Power than Rep. DeLauro and the Gang of 18."
"The truth is," Father Euteneuer said, "nothing threatens the American experiment more than the legal but unjust killing of human beings by abortion which stands in stark contrast to the very first right enumerated by our Declaration of Independence: The Right to Life. The humanity of the unborn child is no longer even debated. It is a scientific fact. Abortion is murder, and murder is against the law. Like Dred Scott before it, which violated certain citizens' Right to Liberty, Roe v. Wade is bad, dishonest law and will eventually fall."
"Excommunication is a pastoral and medicinal penalty, not a political one. The Pope is well within his free expression of religion guaranteed by the US Constitution—and his pastoral duty—to warn any Catholic when their eternal salvation is jeopardized by their actions" Father Euteneuer said. "This is what the Catholic Church teaches and what Catholics believe. If the Gang of 18 believes otherwise, honesty and integrity requires they find another church that tells them what they want to hear. If they have that much of a problem being Catholic, no one is forcing them to stay. We certainly don't need their hypocrisy."
Amen!
The truth hurts doesn't it Rep. DeLauro?
Way to go Father!!!!
The "American experiment" may end in a spectacular explosion unless the killing stops. Two hundred years is a mere blink of an eye in historical terms and America may be remembered as a light which shone brightly but very briefly, like a meteor that streaks across the night sky.
As Mother Teresa once said: "A country which kills its young has no future."
Thanks for starting this thread.
I agree wholly with the good Padre.
Catholic ping! (Fr. Euteneuer gets tough again!)
I’m trying to compile a list of these Representatives. Any help will be appreciated.
House of Representatives
McCarthy
DeLauro
Pelosi
Kennedy, Patrick
Amen! Preach it, Father!
These Cafeteria Catholics should be booted out the door. Give them directions to their local Episcopalean or Unitarian Churches. They’d be happier there.
Yea! Kudos to Father E!
Calling them cafeteria catholics/christians is generous. Heretic or apostate is a more appropriate term. They should leave and Paul wrote in I Corinth 5 that they should be put out of fellowship (excommunicated)but we must also continue to pray for them to repent.
Worth repeating and why even nonbelievers should oppose abortion on demand.
A voice of courage in the wilderness. Sounds like his clash with Hannity was just the warm-up act.
Should have been posted to the News/Activism forum.
God bless Fr. Ted.
He’s gonna need masses said as well as rosaries.
Sorry thread, off topic.
Did you see the ad Hillary used of her and Mother Teresa?
I remember Mother T poking Bill in the chest telling him to stop killing babies.
Should I email Sean to warn of the smacking around he’ll get if he speaks out of his neck again?
Preach it Fr. E !!!
Fr. E took on Hannity, now the gang of 18 !!!
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