Posted on 11/08/2012 12:39:43 PM PST by NYer
CHICAGO, November 7, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – President Obama’s re-election sets up a looming clash with people of faith over abortion, marriage, and the implementation of government-controlled health care –a fight the pro-life movement has vowed to carry out by defying the president, reforming an increasingly unfriendly Republican Party, and building a culture of life that transcends the boundaries of politics.
A second Obama term means “the collision course of the Obama administration with the Catholic Church…is assured,” said Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life after the election.
He was outraged by the fact that a majority of his fellow Catholics voted for Obama, the most pro-abortion president in history.
“Many in Church leadership failed to connect the dots between personnel and policy,” he explained. “They prayed and preached against the HHS mandate, but then were silent about the election – and called the police to remove citizens who leafleted the Church parking lot trying to inform voters about where the candidates stood on this issue.”
Such rebuffs from faithless laity and fainthearted leaders would not deter the faithful.
“The pro-life cause will prevail in America,” Fr. Pavone said. “In the elections of 2014, we will work for a pro-life Senate majority to further blunt the ability of President Obama to damage the cause of life.”
To do so, they may have to reclaim the Republican Party, which most pro-life voters call home.
“We all need to stand guard now. They will try to kick pro-life values out of the Republican Party and blame the abortion/rape question for the loss,” Kristan Hawkins of Students for Life of America wrote on her Facebook page. “Please stand ready to respond.”
Soon forces inside the party proved her right. Greg Valliere of the Potomac Research Group went on Fox Business to urge Republicans to be “much more conciliatory on things like immigration and social issues,” particularly abortion.
The political movement will be met with a cultural and social effort to educate Americans about life and change hearts about the horrors of abortion.
The Obama administration has attempted to chill this speech, with Attorney General Eric Holder filing frivolous lawsuits against sidewalk counselors like Mary Susan Pine and churning out reports branding pro-life Christians potential domestic terrorists.
Fr. Pavone called on pro-lifers to “an unwavering commitment to civil disobedience.”
Kelly Clinger wrote, “I will go save babies as long as I still have the right to do so!” In what may have been a tweak at the president’s re-election slogan, she sent the message under the hashtag “Forward.”
One of the longtime leaders of the pro-life movement, Joe Scheidler of the Pro-Life Action League, said his “mission continues: Confront society with the ugliness of abortion, save babies and women from the tragedy of abortion, and build the Culture of Life.”
Father Pavone should not expect the politicians to be the preacher on morals. They count votes. Father Pavone should advocate more preaching to change the minds of the listeners. Majority wins.
They are too worried about loss of membership. So what if all these CINOs leave the Church? The Church will have to consolidate, sure. But having all these CINOs in the church doesn't increase church influence because all these rat-votings don't agree with or represent Catholic values and teachings anyway.
The wheat will be separated from the chaff. The bishops need to realize this, accept it and grow a pair.
The out-of-wedlock birth rate among Hispanics is 53%, 2x the rate among whites.
Yup, and there are millions of people who call themselves conservative who are patting themselves on the back for staying home and not voting. Instead of at least stabilizing the patient they decided that if there were no instant cure the patient may as well just go ahead and die.
I wonder how many of them will stay silent rather than complaining since they stayed home rather than even trying?
They voted for him. So they get what they deserve.
You are absolutely right. Who needs God when we have government? It used to be that when someone went on unemployment, they had to give up certain niceties in life until they could find a job. Today, going on unemployment or welfare warrants the individual is entitled to the 'basics' in life - flat screen tv, "Obama"phone, food stamps, etal. Why bother working?
The question is: why wasn’t this the case FOUR YEARS AGO?
The seeds for a second American civil war have been planted.
Sadly, these “Catholics” are NOT Sunday Church goers....they are CINO’s, and will have a LOT to answer for in eternity.
Include parish priests with the bishops.
We do not need cafeteria Catholics.
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AMEN!! My priests and Bishop were adamnat in the bulletins and sermons and paryers!! I was VERY happy.
Too little, too late, the issue is the Catholic vote.
Catholics have always voted democrat, it is argued whether 1972 was the first time or the second time (1956) that the Catholic vote went republican, in history.
Hispanics were not around then.
Just as the white Catholics started drifting toward voting republican , JFK’s democratic party and Rome’s immigration policy was replacing them with Hispanic Catholics, so the Catholic denomination’s vote will remain as it always has, democratic.
“However, if there is one man who can take the most credit for the 1965 act, it is John F. Kennedy. Kennedy seems to have inherited the resentment his father Joseph felt as an outsider in Boston’s WASP aristocracy. He voted against the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, and supported various refugee acts throughout the 1950s. In 1958 he wrote a book, A Nation of Immigrants, which attacked the quota system as illogical and without purpose, and the book served as Kennedy’s blueprint for immigration reform after he became president in 1960. In the summer of 1963, Kennedy sent Congress a proposal calling for the elimination of the national origins quota system. He wanted immigrants admitted on the basis of family reunification and needed skills, without regard to national origin. After his assassination in November, his brother Robert took up the cause of immigration reform, calling it JFK’s legacy. In the forward to a revised edition of A Nation of Immigrants, issued in 1964 to gain support for the new law, he wrote, “I know of no cause which President Kennedy championed more warmly than the improvement of our immigration policies.” Sold as a memorial to JFK, there was very little opposition to what became known as the Immigration Act of 1965.”
Rush said is years ago.....we have made being unemployed, uneducated, etc too easy for the people.
The nominal ones. There is a body of dogmatic teaching in Catholicism that all Catholics must adhere to and be judged by --even priests and bishops.
Nonetheless, bishops here, and in Europe, have been soft on socialism. Since public policy is largely an area of prudential judgement, it's difficult to ride herd on bishops. Statesmanship isn't their primary responsibility, but it is tangentially related to their mission of saving souls. And some public policy issues relating to intrinsic evils, such as abortion, euthanasia, and homosexual "marriage," clearly fall within the responsibility of clergy to address.
Finally, there are some bright spots. The Church has led the fight against abortion in the U.S. since at least Roe v. Wade. Ask anyone involved in the movement.
And in Massachusetts, Catholic Charities closed their adoption agencies rather than participate in facillitating the adoption of children by homosexuals.
AMEN!
The Catholic category is much more rigid and exclusive than the Protestant category, "Catholic" means members of that single denomination, of that single teaching, single culture, of people actually baptized into that church, and who still consider themselves as members of that church, which they are.
To be counted as "Protestant" they merely have to be Christian and not Catholic. They don't have have ever to belonged to any church, or even be baptized, or they can belong to any range of churches or denominations, Black, Episcopalian, homosexual, Obama's church, Southern Baptist, Lutherans, or whatever.
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