Catholic CAUCUS (vanity). FOCA Postcard Campaign: is your parish involved and what's the response?

Diocese of Worcester Launches F.O.C.A. Post Card Drive

The Catholic Free Press reported that Bishop McManus called for a very successful post card drive this past weekend, joining fellow bishops across the United States in mobilization of the Catholic laity to call upon their representatives in Congress to oppose the proposed F.O.C.A. legislation.

Citing the effects of F.O.C.A. provisions which would prove the most far-sweeping, radical and insidious federal mandate in our nation’s history, Bishop McManus noted that “the innocent unborn child deserves that his or her God-given right to life be safeguarded,” and further added that “some disturbing implications of FOCA, or any other law or executive order like it, are that taxpayers would have to pay through their tax dollars for abortions that they find morally wrong.”

The words proved prophetic as hours later President Obama reversed years of prudent federal policy that prohibited taxpayer funds to be used for abortions across international waters and borders.

Diocese of Richmond here. Fairly liberal parish. Priest preached on the issue of foca, suprising the hell out of me. Last weekend postcards were signed, very suprised at the enthusiasm I saw with folks signing them.

The folks in DC are going to be stunned at the amount of mail they are going to be getting in a week or two.

Has post card drives by the Church happened before?

Freegards

That goes to show that when encouraged by priests and bishops, there are plenty of devout Catholics willing to do what’s right and take a stand if necessary. I guess these are the Catholics usually quietly going about their lives and attending Mass while people like VOTF or heretic priests rant and rave on TV about the Church being oppressive and out of date!

Yes, I know the bishops have had postcard campaigns, it seems it was several years ago, and I don’t recall if the topic was pro-life. This shows they’re really concerned about Obama’s aggressive abortion views, because it takes quite a bit of organization/cooperation to put on a national mail-in program like this.

I hope the Congressional mailroom will be literally flooded!

“I hope the Congressional mailroom will be literally flooded!”

If the postcard campaign is as widespread as it seems, I think the mailroom will be CRUSHED. We just gotta be careful they don’t try to slip foca through piecemeal...

Freegards

Very good point about “piecemeal.” My rationale is that most of those issues are States rights matters anyway and it would be unconstitutional for the Federal Congress to pass laws on many of the various parts of FOCA. Of course, that is also the thinking by some of Roe vs. Wade itself, and I guess the experts in pro-life areas don’t see that as a win-able battle as it’s not a major focus?

Well, tossing it back to the states is perhaps the practical plan of action, at least for now. But inalienable rights should be protected at all levels of gubberment, be it state or national or whatever. If a state has legal baby butchery for a few hundred years, I could easily see them eventually extending the murder age limit to kids under one year if the parents would wish it, because evil will keep creeping along.

Freegards

True! Several months back here on FR there was an article about an “ethicist” in Britain who seriously proposes that parents have the right to kill their babies until 3 months after birth. His reasoning is that a “defect” in the child might not be apparent from ultrasound or in the early newborn stage, but if something crops up (like brown eyes?!?), then a 3-month old baby is not really “human” yet because it does not have a “consciousness” of itself as a separate entity, and therefore the mother has the right to kill it.

So the evil does creep. It starts with contraception, which removes procreation entirely from sex and makes it a matter of pleasure, basically using another person’s body for masturbation (pardon my language, but this is now what relationships often are, with “hook-ups” replacing dating, no personal meaning)...to the viability concept (which once meant abortion only in first trimester) to full-term abortions, to partial-birth, and now we have infanticide occurring regularly.

From the other end of the life span the evil creeps along too, from euthanasia for a suffering old person, to assisted suicide for any sick person, to court mandated-murder of the disabled as with Terri Schiavo, a young woman.

What scares me about Obama and some like him (Hillary, Pelosi, Boxer, UN, PP, Unicef, etc), is they don’t seem just neutral on killing babies, they actually seem obsessed with promoting abortion and all forms of things that promote death and promiscuity. In “Audacity of Hope” Obama discusses abortion 26 times. It’s as if death is their religion.

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