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Former Catholic chaplain to US House: A ‘good Catholic’ can support abortion
LifeSite News ^ | January 7, 2022 | Jack Bingham

Posted on 01/08/2022 2:40:45 PM PST by ebb tide

Former Catholic chaplain to US House: A ‘good Catholic’ can support abortion

Fri Jan 7, 2022 - 11:51 am EST

(LifeSiteNews) — According to a prominent Jesuit priest and former chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives, supporting a woman’s right to “choose” to kill her unborn child is a “Catholic value.”

Defying 2,000 years of Church teaching, and the Catholic biblical view on the sanctity of human life, Fr. Pat Conroy SJ told the Washington Post in an interview that “a good Catholic” support a woman’s right to “choose” to commit an abortion.

“It’s an American value that each one of us can choose where our life is going,” stated Conroy on the topic of abortion. “That happens to be a Catholic value, too. That we should all use our gifts and our talents and our intelligence as best we can to make the best choices we have the freedom to make.”

“A good Catholic in our system could be saying: Given women in our system have this constitutional right [to abort their child], our task as fellow Christians, or as Catholics, is to make it possible for her to optimize her ability to make the choice,” he added.

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TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic
KEYWORDS: abortion; apostate; francisjesuits; murder
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Like Bergoglio, another apostate Jesuit.
1 posted on 01/08/2022 2:40:45 PM PST by ebb tide
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Barf Alert Ping


2 posted on 01/08/2022 2:41:49 PM PST by ebb tide (Where are the good fruits of the Second Vatican Council? Anyone?)
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To: ebb tide

Yes, another fake Catholic.


3 posted on 01/08/2022 2:43:47 PM PST by TheChief2005
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To: ebb tide

I’m a Protestant myself, and even I know a good Catholic does NOT support abortion.


4 posted on 01/08/2022 2:44:46 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (Merry Christmas Illhan!)
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To: ebb tide

> A ‘good Catholic’ can support abortion <

Where have I heard that kind of garbage before?
Oh, yes. Now I remember.

Southern slaveowners: A good Christian can support slavery.
Nazi officials: A good German can support ethnic cleansing.


5 posted on 01/08/2022 2:45:17 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: ebb tide

This guy is the kind of Catholic priest that Pelosi and President Pedophile can identify with.


6 posted on 01/08/2022 2:46:15 PM PST by workerbee (==)
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To: TheChief2005
Yes, another fake Catholic.

Just like Bergoglio.

7 posted on 01/08/2022 2:47:47 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: workerbee

Ironically, Pelosi was skeptical of this blackguard when Boehner recruited him. Little did she know apparently that he was very much her kinda priest.


8 posted on 01/08/2022 2:49:12 PM PST by irishjuggler
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To: workerbee

Satan is pervasive and appealing to human sensibilities.


9 posted on 01/08/2022 2:49:27 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: ebb tide

BS. That’s not in the Bible OR Catholic doctrine anywhere.

That’s Marxism wearing the skin of Catholicism.


10 posted on 01/08/2022 2:51:18 PM PST by Skywise
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To: ebb tide

LOL, this moron thinks there are “good” and “bad” Catholics!


11 posted on 01/08/2022 2:51:58 PM PST by Democrat = party of treason
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To: ebb tide

No they can’t.

CC


12 posted on 01/08/2022 2:52:02 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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This statement says it all: “According to a prominent Jesuit priest and former chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives.” I was raised Catholic and people in my family knew that there was always something Not Right about Jesuits. Pedo & Homo comes to mind.


13 posted on 01/08/2022 2:55:46 PM PST by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: ebb tide

A Jesuit. It figures. In high school I was taught by Jesuits; they were “out there,” but they weren’t this crazy. I am not surprised, though, that they have taken the dark side, as they were always edgy.


14 posted on 01/08/2022 2:57:01 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Leaning Right

Bumper stickers:

Don’t like abortion? - Don’t have one!
Don’t like killing Jews? - Don’t work at Auschwitz!


15 posted on 01/08/2022 2:57:10 PM PST by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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And the 10 Commandments (especially the 6th, according to this guy) are really more in the line of suggestions than rules.


16 posted on 01/08/2022 2:58:22 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: ebb tide
Leviticus 18:21
Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molek, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.

The old method of abortion was to burn your baby alive. The new one is to rip it to pieces while still in the womb. We're so much more civilized today.
17 posted on 01/08/2022 2:58:24 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: ebb tide

Can a good Catholic support murder?


18 posted on 01/08/2022 3:07:49 PM PST by Obadiah (Fauci is the golden calf of science.)
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To: ebb tide
Given women in our system have this constitutional right [to abort their child], our task as fellow Christians, or as Catholics, is to make it possible for her to optimize her ability to make the choice,” he added.

WTF does "optimize her ability to make the choice" mean? Is he saying I not only have to allow her to commit an abortion, that I must actively aid her in doing it?

She has the constitutional right to worship Baal. Doing so doesn't make her a good Catholic, nor do I have the moral responsibility to set up an altar to Baal on the sanctuary.

19 posted on 01/08/2022 3:13:23 PM PST by KarlInOhio (I stand behind Alec Baldwin. It is far too dangerous to stand in front of him.)
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To: ebb tide

Nope. Nope. Nope. And nope.


20 posted on 01/08/2022 3:17:23 PM PST by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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