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1 posted on 10/08/2012 8:14:02 AM PDT by marshmallow
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These "priests," Fr. Richard McCormick, Fr. Charles Curran, Fr. Joseph Fuchs, Fr. Robert Drinan, and Fr. John Courtney Murray ....
2 posted on 10/08/2012 8:18:18 AM PDT by Ken522
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The Church should excommunicate politicians that back abortion.


4 posted on 10/08/2012 8:28:22 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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Chicken and egg. Did the priests convince the Kennedys or did the politics of the Democratic party convince them and then they searched for heretical priests to provide cover?
5 posted on 10/08/2012 8:34:23 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Big Bird is a brood parasite: laid in our nest 43 years ago and we are still feeding him.)
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To: marshmallow
I realize that this is a 2009 article, but the author said:
And this strategy worked so well that, today, it is virtually impossible to find a Catholic politician holding national public office who is pro-life.
At the time I think that Rick Santorum was still in office, and certainly Paul Ryan was in office -- two of the most pro-life politicians in recent memory. Oh, wait a minute. Maybe the author meant DEMOCRAT Catholic pro-life politicians are impossible to find. That certainly would be true, but REPUBLICAN Catholic pro-life politicians abound..., thanks be to God.
6 posted on 10/08/2012 8:38:26 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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No question that most of those priests were trouble-making heretics. I’m not so sure about Fr. John Courtney Murray. He was a “modernist,” all right. But his writings are a good deal more nuanced, and I’m not at all sure that he was a heretic. Certainly not a deliberate heretic and Church-underminer like the others. He was often cited by others as an excuse for their dissident ways, but it’s not always clear that he really supported them.

Just a sidenote, in a way. Otherwise, the article is certainly true. Although, to be frank, the Kennedys were mobsters, and they were extremely willing to violate Church teachings if it suited them. It didn’t take much to twist them around.


7 posted on 10/08/2012 9:03:46 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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I don’t respect them. The kennedy’s decided to descend into evil after inviting evil into their lives. There is no excuse.


8 posted on 10/08/2012 9:04:04 AM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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“Personally, I am against abortion, but the courts have ruled on this issue.”
The psychopaths that run the Democrat party believe that our planet can only support 30 million people. The fact that it currently supports billions of people is quite an inconvenient truth for them. They are getting old and they realize that abortion will not reduce the world population to the level they want it to be. What next? Death panels? Once you start down that road, where do you draw the line? And the Moslems are smiling all the while.


10 posted on 10/08/2012 9:29:42 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Kennedy pro-life letter

11 posted on 10/08/2012 9:40:54 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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