What's wrong with Catholic voters? What's wrong with Catholics?

Catholic Culture ^ | November 5, 2008 | Phil Lawler

[HappyinAZ]

Or make the crazy ones compromise.

[xsmommy]

Because anyone can CALL THEMSELVES Catholic, that’s the problem. i constantly tell people you can say you were raised Catholic, you can say you attend a Catholic Church, but you cannot say you ARE CATHOLIC if you do not accept and hold to the teachings of the Catholic Church.

[John W]

So, are you saying if we would have just ran your pro-abortion candidate we would have won? Yeah, right.

[xsmommy]

exactly!

[djrakowski]

They only think they're taking care of their families, but they're neglecting their most important need - the salvation of their eternal souls!

[Enosh]

By concentrating on our common beliefs and values. Papists and proddies are more alike than many care to admit.

[Angry_White_Man_Syndrome]

As a Catholic, I feel it is time for the Bishops to do some house cleaning. I do not see why Kerry, Biden, and Pelose have not been publicly excommunicated. I fault the Church Leaders for the sheep they have let scatter into the hands of evil while not saying a word.

[IrishCatholic]

“Seduced by the Spirit of the Age (C.S. Lewis’s trenchant translation of the German Zeitgeist), the liberal American bishops have for far too long ignored their duty to teach and lead.”

You nailed it. It is like a parent that never teaches or disciplines their children and suddenly can’t understand why their teenager is out of control and won’t listen.
The Bishops need to start over and teach and lead or this won’t change.

[NTHockey]

In Washington/Versailles, we have Democans and Replicats. So too, we have in America Catholants and Protestics.

Until Catholic bishops start kicking the Catholants out,PUBLICLY, this will continue. I am fed up with this “ipso facto” excommunication. Put up public notices that those who support sucking the brains out of babies skulls are heretics.

[LadyNavyVet]

You don’t think an article called “What’s WRONG with Catholic Voters” isn’t Catholic bashing? I disagree. We get this every cr@p every single election, as the media lumps religious Catholics with those who use the church for baptism, marriage and burial only, yet tell pollsters they’re “catholic.”

Let me restate my argument. Lump blacks with every American who was ever baptized in a Protestant church and put those votes up against the “catholic” vote and a very similar voting pattern will emerge.

There is no Protestant vote. There is no Catholic vote. There is the religious vote and the non-religious vote. But if the media spoke in those terms they wouldn’t get to bash Catholics after every stinking election.

[IrishMike]

The USCCB is also part of the problem. They do very dumb things like equating racism with abortion.

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I completely agree.

Another factor is the pedophilia tragedy of the last few years. Shame and embarrassment caused a lot catholics, especially the boarder line non practicing ones to turn away.

[AnAmericanMother]

Believe me, the 'nominal Catholics' aren't going to confession. They don't even go to Mass.

And the Church figured out the 'go back and do it again' dodge centuries ago. It's called the sin of presumption (presuming on God's mercy) and it is a mortal sin, so you just dig yourself in a deeper hole that way.

[frogjerk]

Sorry, but I’m a Papist.

[frogjerk]

Sorry, I misunderstood your post. Please revoke my last statement to you FRiend!

[wideawake]

What's wrong with Catholics?

Less than 50% of "Catholics" attend Mass every Sunday.

[Lets Be Frank]

I noticed several weeks ago, during the prolife week when the homilies are to be about the pro life issues, that the church wasn’t as full as normal. I started wondering if the pro choice dem catholics stay home every year during this week. It was an excellant homily.

[pierrem15]

It's not just the 'inactive' Catholics-- How long do you think the Republican party can trot out the abortion issue every 4 years while doing nothing effective about it?

Something 'effective' means a articulating a way to rein in the courts, possibly threatening the SOB's with arrest for abuse of power and misappropriation of funds when they legislate from the bench.

Any "pro-life" candidate who doesn't have a plan to deal with the courts is a sham and a fraud, which I think a lot of people have finally figured out.

Someone will have to be willing to call their bluff regarding Judicial Supremacy or not. And if not, then kiss goodbye to the Republic.

[Varda]

“....Among Catholic voters who attend Mass weekly, McCain won majority support: 54- 45%.”

Catholics aren't an ethnicity. Catholics are people in communion with the Catholic church. Thank you Alex Murphy. Your posts remind me every time why I couldn't become a Protestant.

[frogjerk]

Another factor is the pedophilia tragedy of the last few years. Shame and embarrassment caused a lot catholics, especially the boarder line non practicing ones to turn away.

I think this was all caused by changing the Liturgy and the "Spirit of Vatican II" - where communists/socialists/liberals used the opening of Vatican II as an excuse to cause Mass heresy. God will allow horrible things to happen in order to bring His people back to the truth.

[DesertSapper]

I expect that most of the obama "christians" are CINO's.

I personally know two Southern Baptist missionary kids (40+ yr olds) who voted for Obama. Neither would respond with anything resembling logic when I asked about the abortion vs. Bible teachings issue.