Posted on 08/27/2020 7:09:15 PM PDT by ebb tide
I say suspend the jackass now.
If nothing else this priest in Boston is committing the sin of scandal, by leading people to think that support of abortion which is the sacramental plank of the Party of Deaths platform is anywhere near acceptable for a Catholic.
Scandal is any action or its omission, not necessarily sinful in itself, that is likely to induce another to do something morally wrong. Direct scandal, also called diabolical, has the deliberate intention to induce another to sin. In indirect scandal a person does something that he or she foresees will at least likely lead another to commit sin, but this is rather tolerated than positively desired.
From CNA
Boston priest claims Catholics can support right to choose, archdiocese declines comment
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 26, 2020 / 03:00 pm MT (CNA).- A Boston priest has said he believes in a womans right to choose on the issue of abortion, and will continue his advocacy for Joe Bidens presidential campaign, despite Catholic teaching on abortion and a Church prohibition on clerical advocacy for political candidates.
Msgr. Paul Garrity of the Archdiocese of Boston spoke to CNA Tuesday, after attracting criticism for a Facebook post endorsing former vice president Joe Biden for president.
In an Aug. 23 Facebook post titled I AM PRO-LIFE AND SUPPORT JOE BIDEN, Msgr. Garrity wrote: I am pro-life and I believe in a womans right to choose. I will vote for Joe Biden for President because I believe that Joe Biden is pro-life like me.
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Hes pro-life, like Joe!
B as in B. S as in S.
Pro!
He keeps using that word. I dont think that word means what he thinks it means.
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Biden is running for president on a platform that would codify the full extent of Roe vs. Wade into federal law, effectively preventing any state limitations on the practice. Biden also supports the expanded use of taxpayer funds for abortion.
Garrity added that he believes any woman who becomes pregnant should have the right to choose to give birth to her baby.
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In effect, he says that women in fact anyone, now that I think of it has the right to kill the unborn if they dont feel, at the moment, properly disposed to allow the baby to be born.
That priest thinks that the child doesnt not have a RIGHT to be born. Or, if he can be induced to accept that this unborn human does have a right to be born, he is saying that other human beings rights cancel out the rights of the unborn. There are human beings who have more rights than others.
So, why not slavery and sex trafficking? The priests argument comes down to one of convenience and who has more power. The powerful win.
Moreover, if the unborn child doesnt have rights, then some person other than the mother can choose to abort the child as well, à la the One Child Policy.
This priests public statement is a scandal that must be dealt with.
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While the archdiocese did not offer any official comment on the matter, one archdiocesan leader did say the priests view was contrary to Catholic teaching.
In a since-deleted tweet, Thomas Carroll, Secretary of Education & Superintendent of Schools for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, expressed criticism of Garritys post. He followed it up with an explanation saying that he believed Garritys view is 100% not in line with Church teaching, and that he did not want the 30,000 students in our schools to be led astray by false teachings spread by someone wearing a collar.
Carroll deleted the tweet on Tuesday afternoon. He referred questions from CNA to the Archdiocese of Boston.
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Wow. This gives cancelled new meaning.
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In the past, Pope Francis has called abortion akin to hiring a hitman.
At least those who are killed in the open air by hitmen were born.
This is where Fr. Jackass argument comes off the rail, along with all the Dems on that engine hauling those box cars toward the camp. All the other issues, such as poverty, trafficking etc. are equally sacred, they say. Seamless garment! But those poor people were born. More fundamental even than the rights of those in poverty is the right to be born.
A Catholic cannot support the Dem platform or a candidate who has resolutely, for decades, supported the extermination of the unborn for what in the final analysis beyond all the anxiety and pain and pressure and doubt that precedes the decision to abort the convenience of those who are breathing air in this world.
The fact is that people who are walking around have power and those who are not yet born do not.
This priest and the Archdiocese of Boston? should a least be as honest as, say, Camille Paglia. As Paglia puts it with honesty instead of smarmy weasel words draped in pious crepe
I have always frankly admitted that abortion is murder, the extermination of the powerless by the powerful. Liberals for the most part have shrunk from facing the ethical consequences of their embrace of abortion, which results in the annihilation of concrete individuals and not just clumps of insensate tissue.
Paglia: Of course abortion is murder! Its just that we dont care. We have power and we do what we want.
Liberals will refer you to the sophistication of nuance regarding balancing factors.
No. This is not a position that a Catholic priest can hold in good conscience.
This is not a position that any Catholic politician can hold in good conscience.
And for those out there who think that woman have the right to control their bodies, as if their bodies were things they possess, Ive got new for you. If our bodies are our possessions, then they arent truly part of who we are. If you can possess, as in own your body, so can someone else. They can do whatever the hell they want to your body, and if they have more power than you, you cant stop them. But dont worry! You are different from your body. Your body belongs to you so you can do anything you want to to it. Its just something you ride around in.
Or as John Paul underscored we are our bodies. We people are both body and soul. Our bodies are not our personal possessions, as if they are some separate from our interior self. They are destined to be together for eternity and they will be. Not even death can stop that.
That priest in Boston needs publicly to retract his scandalous public statement.
Ping
Is God "speaking" to him?
I did a search on this person. Let me just tell you that expressing heretical views that go against Church teaching is not a new thing for him. Here is an example.
Thank-you for the link.
It further implicates Sean O’Malley, a member of Francis’ original Gang of Nine, which is now down to a Gang of Six due to various scandals that had arisen.
Again, God speaks to all men. It is up to them to know when that is so.
Drop kick his ass out of the Catholic Church as he supports murder.
Hey, it’s Boston. Where the most “conservative” person is still left of Pelosi. I’m not surprised.
Again, that is why we have consciences. I don’t know how you can still defend artificial birth control and divorce and remarriage by arguing one is following his “conscience”.
Your argument is hypocritical. Have you ever heard of an ill-formed conscience, Mr. Chips?
Baby killers are scum.
I don t defend those things. But some people do. And informing ones conscience is the whole point .
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