Posted on 06/24/2022 11:24:06 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
He’s working on the next encyclical detailing how the ruling affects climate change.
Big Ups.
Here is “a” Pope’s statement:
Rep. Pope: Statement on SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe v. Wade
MADISON— This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court released its formal opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson. The court ruled that the Constitution does not grant a right to an abortion, and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the states. Rep. Pope released the following statement in response to this opinion:
“I am hugely disappointed by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to take away the right to abortion by overturning Roe v. Wade. In doing so, the Supreme Court has ignored the will of the majority of citizens and set America back 50 years. This opinion will cause great harm, complications, and confusion throughout the country. An essential human right was taken away today, and the consequences will be dangerous and deadly.
“Earlier this week, my Republican colleagues refused to repeal Wisconsin’s criminal abortion ban from 1849. Regrettably, their inaction has left Wisconsin residents without access to essential, comprehensive healthcare. I am truly heartbroken for the people of this state.
“Republicans in Wisconsin and across the country have been working for years to remove access to abortion. We will now see the grave repercussions of their efforts. While the Supreme Court’s decision today is a massive setback, my Democratic colleagues and I will continue fighting to ensure all Wisconsin citizens can again have the freedom to make decisions about their bodies and reproductive healthcare, free from government interference. This is a painful day for our state and country, making our future elections even more significant and consequential. Be assured, we will remain steadfast in our fight for these rights.”
It’s not over until there are about 65 million indictments for murder drawn up and murders prosecuted...
All thanks and praise to Lord Jesus Christ! In your Name, Lord, we call for your divine protection from the demonic domestic terrorists in their night and days of satanic rage.
Has the pope weighed in on this yet?
I wonder what his position will be.
I wouldn’t be surprised to hear him say something very progressive.
That’s what I’m expecting.
This from the most recent article by Ed Pentin:
It is not clear if the Vatican will be issuing any further statement on today’s historic news. The Register has asked American Cardinal Kevin Farrell, prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life for comment, but he has not yet responded.
And they knew this was coming.
They could have had something prepared.
Thank you VLL. A great thing has happened. God willing, it portends even greater things in the months to come.
Can see Bergoglio remaining silent for the time being so as to allow U.S. prelates to twist in the wind, wondering whether Bergoglio, for whatever reason, will somehow eventually find fault with what they are saying.
Bergoglio has not been shy about his distaste for U.S. Bishops as a group. However petty this may make him look, he may identify the U.S. Bishops (as in, the local ordinaries of the various dioceses and archdioceses across the U.S.A.) with the strong and still growing movement of authentic Catholicism in the U.S. among lay Catholics, and their holy priests, the latter being ordained, as they have always been, by prelates associated with the FSSPX and the several Ecclesia Dei communities over which the local ordinaries have no real control.
On another thread Ebb Tide referred to the local time in Rome, Italy.
It’s now already after midnight there.
JD, MM, I’m no good at being noble, but it doesn’t take much to see that the successes of a few little Catholics in the U.S. don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy Church.
Here’s a quote from a story from September 2013 (!!!) that Ebb Tide reminded me of today:
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“The church’s pastoral ministry cannot be obsessed with the transmission of a disjointed multitude of doctrines to be imposed insistently,” Francis said.
“We have to find a new balance; otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel.”
Instead, he said, the Catholic Church must work to heal the wounds of its faithful and seek out those who have been excluded or have fallen away.
“It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars,” he said. “You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.”
He said the Church had become tied up in “small-minded rules” and risked losing its true purpose.
“The most important thing is the first proclamation: Jesus Christ has saved you. And the ministers of the Church must be ministers of mercy above all.”
His remarks could generate dismay among clergy in the United States who have already expressed disappointment that Francis has not pressed Church teaching on abortion, contraception and homosexuality.
Last week, Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence, Rhode Island, wrote in his diocesan newspaper that he was “disappointed” Francis hadn’t addressed abortion since his papacy began six months ago, according to AP.
‘Home of all’
But Francis said: “We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. This is not possible,” he said.
“The teaching of the Church, for that matter, is clear and I am a son of the Church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.”
Francis created headlines two months ago when he spoke about gay priests during an impromptu news conference on a return flight from Brazil. He said it was not up to him to judge about the sexual orientation of clergy as long as they were searching for God and had goodwill.
In his latest interview, Francis said his remarks were in line with Catholic teaching.
“This Church with which we should be thinking is the home of all, not a small chapel that can hold only a small group of selected people. We must not reduce the bosom of the universal Church to a nest protecting our mediocrity,” he said.
Of course, he has to insert other issues in there.
Cardinal-designate Issues Statement about Abortion Ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court
(SAN DIEGO, June 24, 2022) – Cardinal-designate Robert McElroy, of the Catholic Diocese of San Diego, issued the following statement after today’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization:
“Today is a day to give thanks and celebrate. Catholic social teaching holds that life begins at conception, which is a belief shared by millions of Americans regardless of religious faith. The ruling by the Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization affirms that belief and recognizes the ability of states to regulate abortion to protect the rights of the unborn.
“While we celebrate this decision — the culmination of prayer and decades of legislative advocacy, life-affirming events, committing time and resources to pregnancy centers, and walking with families facing an unplanned pregnancy— in many ways, our work has just begun.
“We must work to ensure that California law protects the rights of the unborn. And we must emphasize that being pro-life demands more than opposition to abortion.
“It demands we do everything we can to support families, to provide access to quality healthcare, affordable housing, good jobs and decent housing.
“It means making sure parents and families have access to affordable childcare, so that being a parent doesn’t force women and families to drop out of school or leave the job market.
“It also means reinvigorating our adoption system, to make sure there are options for women and families who are unable or unwilling, for whatever reason, to take on the responsibilities of parenthood.
“Support for children and families cannot stop at birth.”
I’m sure antipope franky will disapprove.
Midnight in Rome has come and gone with no remarks about Dobbs attributed to Bergoglio.
“It means making sure parents and families have access to affordable childcare, so that being a parent doesn’t force women and families to drop out of school or leave the job market.”
Bishop McElroy hould NEVER have brought this issue up in the current context.
This is a blatant insult to Catholic parents faithfully open to life and striving to bring many more children into this world than the current secular society considers appropriate.
What a horrible sentiment for a Catholic bishop to express!
He has just echoed, with slightly different phrasing, Obama’s stated wish that neither of his daughters be “punished with a baby”!
God willing, it portends even greater things in the months to come.
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Next, the end of homosexual “rights.” The is no right to sin. “Gay marriage” is false. “Transgenderism” is a delusion. In Jesus’ Name!
Rampant, unremitting sin on the part of any adult man darkens and degrades his intellect in an insidious manner, difficult to detect. The effect on the instinct toward piety and faith is like fine grit sandpaper—it gets worn away, but slowly, layer after vanishingly thin layer, until it is featureless and no longer has a perceptible function. He is in a trance, unaware that lower-ranked portions of his brain are beginning to make all of his most important decisions. He has lost the ability to raise or lower his eyes outside the horizontal, to the point where he not only cannot perceive or appreciate the influence of the supernatural, God, heaven, holiness, angelic support, intervening saints, prayer, etc., he also denies the reality of the praeternatural hard at work all around him in the form of Satan and his minions, possessed and obsessed persons, generational spirits (hat tip Fr. Ripperger), etc., including places and things that have become suffused with evil. Try to reach him now with reason leavened with an intact faith and you will only identify yourself to him as a sadly naïve, vaguely kooky person best kept on the periphery of his life, always at arms length or farther away from an emotional standpoint and systematically censored, while he continues to luxuriate unabated in his latest worldly obsession.
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