Posted on 02/07/2020 6:36:57 PM PST by ebb tide
SAN DIEGO (ChurchMilitant.com) - Abortion and climate change were compared several times in a recent speech by San Diego Bp. Robert McElroy, who insisted Catholics must not be single-issue voters.
Playing his part to influence the Catholic vote in the upcoming California presidential primaries, McElroy claimed both abortion and climate change are "core life issues" — while alleging the latter ends more human beings' lives.
Abortion kills "more than 750,000 unborn children" but "the long-term death toll from unchecked climate change is larger and threatens the very future of humanity," said McElroy.
The speech took place at the University of San Diego Thursday.
The long-term death toll from unchecked climate change is larger [than abortion] and threatens the very future of humanity.Tweet
Speaking of contraception, which — in accordance with Church teaching — he admitted is "intrinsically evil," McElroy alleged "it is a far greater moral evil for our country to abandon the Paris Climate Accord than to provide contraceptives in federal health centers."
The California prelate also discussed what he calls "the culture of exclusion," which includes "anti-Muslim bigotry" and "animosity against immigrants."
McElroy decried the partisan divide in the nation and said, "Seen against this background of abortion, climate change and the culture of exclusion, it is clear that the faith-filled voter who seeks to be guided by Catholic social teaching is confronted by compelling moral claims that cut across the partisan and cultural divides of our nation."
Some Catholics in attendance expressed disappointment in the bishop's lecture.
McElroy "mentioned Catholic social justice several times, but you did not mention the 10 Commandments. Abortion is the torture and murder of a human being in the womb up to birth, and sometimes beyond birth," Moira Malley told Church Militant.
Merrill Adrian sought comment from McElroy during the presentation but received no response.
"Planned Parenthood has offices in L.A. County schools. They can actually give your children abortions or contraceptives without parents being notified. They are undermining children's rights," she said. "I wanted to hear his comments on that. ... Far more than climate change, children are very important."
McElroy's speech comes as a more pronounced presentation of a position he has held for some time.
"It is not Catholic teaching that abortion is the pre-eminent issue that we face as a world in Catholic social teaching. It is not," said McElroy at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' (USCCB's) general assembly in November.
McElroy was siding with Cdl. Blase Cupich of Chicago, who claimed abortion should not be considered the "pre-eminent" issue of our time, as thinking otherwise would contradict the spirit of Pope Francis' pontificate.
In June 2019, McElroy was the keynote speaker at a conference titled, "Laudato Sí and the U.S. Catholic Church: A Conference Series on Our Common Home" at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.
"For us in the United States at this perilous moment in our national history, the core themes of Laudato Sí are especially urgent. We stand, deeply estranged from one another, seething in divisions and unwilling to reconcile," he said during the speech, adding: "We are the most powerful nation in the history of the earth, yet have rejected the only realistic pathways that have emerged to heal our broken planet."
What is this idiot talking about?
60 million in the US alone “long term.” Hundreds of millions worldwide “long term.”
Bishop you are a fool
I guess this guy is on ‘Team Francis’, rather than on ‘Team God’.
Wow what a fool. One of Frankies soldiers
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. - Proverbs 17:28
A true bible thumper from the religion that was a party to the Spanish Inquisition, makes people feel better by confessing so they can go out and sin some more, and as noted by looking south of the border, loves socialism, dictators and keeping the population poor so they have something to adore.
The last bit is exactly what the commies/dems do.
And let’s not overlook the huge homosexual/child molesting problems.
And this jackass is trying to make the killing of children not as bad as fictitious climate change. Lefty women of the faith will hear this, go out and have sex to no end for the next eleven years aborting every baby along the way. Why not, climate change will kill everyone by then anyway.
This guy is an absolutely a goofball. Who has been killed so far by climate change? Nobody this clown can point to. So where does he get his premise? He is a liberal kook!
Satan controls him.
This guy needs to be tarred and feathered by the KCs.
How many hundred million has climate change killed today?
Godless Communism has killed even more than abortion.
We have been lectured by libtards they aren’t people.
Now they say they are people they are murdering?
Ways to lead others to Hell.
Without knowing anything else about this guy; it is clear to me that he does not believe in the gospel he may have been preaching. Pray for his flock.
“What is this idiot talking about?”
He’s trying to convince Catholics to vote for the pseudo-science of climate change rather than against the mass infanticide. In other words, he’s an agent of both the Democratic Party and Satan himself.
A real challenge to the Church in America today is dealing with young skeptics who don’t believe in a God they can’t see. Trying to lure them with junk science while ignoring mass murder won’t work...
I can honestly say I've never heard of a Roman Catholic being addressed as a "Bible thumper."
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