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Wow, a friend of WCC! God bless him.
Not only a friend, but a co-Founder of the institution. Wyoming’s loss was Wisconsin’s great gain!
Unfortunately, the folks who insist on voting while “looking at the whole picture” (voting democrat/pro-abortion) don’t belive people can go to hell. I had lunch with two girlfriends this weekend. I thought that they were pretty devout (we met at a catholic YA group and neither one uses birth control.) However, when I tell them the above point (as charitably as I can) they laugh it off. They just don’t believe their soul can be in danger, and it certainly can’t be by how they vote! This is where we need to hear it from priests. Laity, no matter how engaged, can only do so much. The same people who vote pro-abortion are the same people who don’t believe in sin or hell (or that hell is just for very, very bad people, not them.)
Inspirational election homily: Fr. Sammie Maletta’s stirring defense of moral truth and religious freedom!
THIS INSPIRATIONAL HOMILY IS WORTH YOUR TIME — IT IS THAT GOOD!
View the homily at the link:
http://allhands-ondeck.blogspot.com/2012/10/inspirational-election-homily-fr-sammie.html
Forget the labelling and voting, how does one know before the election which candidate will be more effective in reducing the abortion rate?
” how does one know before the election which candidate will be more effective in reducing the abortion rate?”
Chances are the guy who thinks infanticide should be legal is a bad bet. I’d start my analysis right there, I think.
” how does one know before the election which candidate will be more effective in reducing the abortion rate?”
One might want to avoid that candidate that opposed congressional legislation to ban gender-specific abortions.
“…how does one know before the election which candidate will be more effective in reducing the abortion rate?”
It seems entirely reasonable to judge a candidate by performance in whatever office he/she/it may have held or be holding. While there may be some question about one candidate, that needs to be weighed against obvious certainty about his/her/its opposition.
Cheers for His Excellency Most Rev. David Ricken. He said essentially what we heard out here in CA in our Latin Mass Community.
Kudos to Bp Ricken, we were read a letter at Mass Sunday from our Diocesan Administrator David Kagen, that said basically the same thing. Many were “scandalized” because there is supposed to be separation of Church and state, and here the Church was “telling us how to vote”. In fact a State Representative candidate who claims to be Catholic, went to the news media including live TV to denounce the letter as inappropriate intrusion by the Catholic Church in the government of our country.
We need more letters from the Bishops telling us how to be proper Catholics in all aspects of our lives.
Maybe then we would be able to get society back on track.
Oh, Bishop Kagan is our administrator because Bishop Samuel Aquila was named Archbishop of Denver. We miss him very much and are praying for another strong Bishop for our Diocese to be named soon.
Here is part of an article by theologian David Cloutier of Mount St. Mary’s University on “intrinsic evil”
“adultery is both intrinsically evil and grave…and yet very few people are hankering to recover civil laws against adultery.”
In many jurisdictions, one can still sue in court for divorce on the grounds the spouse has committed adultery. It is one of the Ten Commandments after all.
“Lying involves the intent to deceive, and the intent to deceive is always wrong.”
If this statement is true, then the use of stealth technology, camouflage and decoys in warfare is “always wrong.” The examples of deception in war, espionage, undercover law enforcement, etc., is a long one. There was a very good discussion of this subject some months ago on this very blog.
jvhale, thank you for the integrity of posting the link to the entire article. I read it, and it is a liberal political rant. Moreover, it is nothing more than an attack on Bishop Morlino (and indirectly on other bishops) and a pro-Democrat opinion piece (which is why it was published in Commonweal magazine).
His last two paragraphs are enlightening of his bias:
“I fear this term’s (intrinsically evil act) use has become ideological. It is no longer a technical term used to analyze moral action, but an intimidating buzzword used to elevate certain issues to prominence…issues that happen to be aligned with one major political party. This use is ideological because it serves to distort the overall teaching of the church by diminishing the importance of other issues that may be equally grave, or even graver, but do not fall under an absolute norm. The very selective use of the term unwittingly demonstrates that political prudence is always necessary for dealing with moral absolutes. By decriminalizing adultery (or “sodomy” or any of a host of acts that are always wrong), we acknowledge that political bodies can and do make prudential decisions about what are the most grave evils threatening a given society. These decisions are not simply a matter of identifying which issues involve intrinsically evil acts and which do not.
The church’s teaching about intrinsically evil acts has a great deal of integrity, but it loses that integrity when it is put into the service of thinly veiled partisanship. The church needs to make sure that the desire to be influential in the public square does not end up trumping the complexity and integrity of its own tradition.”
Mr Cloutier appears to be defending VP Biden’s position and so many other “catholic” politicians claim that they are “personally opposed to abortion but cannot impose their belief on others”.
I hope that Mr. Cloutier is NOT teaching in Mount Saint Mary’s Seminary, too!!
Acardnal wrote:
i don’t know about the seminary. According to his bio “he teaches courses in moral theology and Catholic social thought, and also directs a year-long seminar on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition for tenure-track faculty across the University.”
http://catholicmoraltheology.com/contributors/david-cloutier/
If I remmber correctly, both Augustine and Thomas Aquinas argued that human law need not necessarily parallel divine law. Their example was that prostitution should probably not be made illegal
correction: I wrote “jvhale” and meant “jhayes.”
I read it, and it is a liberal political rant. Moreover, it is nothing more than an attack on Bishop Morlino (and indirectly on other bishops) and a pro-Democrat opinion piece (which is why it was published in Commonweal magazine).
Yup, that sums it up well. Someone needs to inform him that the Church does reject socialism and that it is the democrats that are deregulating sodomy laws, at least in the South.
Regarding Aquinas and Augustine:
ST I-II 98.1 Again it must be observed that the end of human law is different from the end of Divine law. For the end of human law is the temporal tranquillity of the state, which end law effects by directing external actions, as regards those evils which might disturb the peaceful condition of the state. On the other hand, the end of the Divine law is to bring man to that end which is everlasting happiness;
ST II-II 10.11 although God is all-powerful and supremely good, nevertheless He allows certain evils to take place in the universe, which He might prevent, lest, without them, greater goods might be forfeited, or greater evils ensue. Accordingly in human government also, those who are in authority, rightly tolerate certain evils, lest certain goods be lost, or certain greater evils be incurred: thus Augustine says (De Ordine ii, 4): “If you do away with harlots, the world will be convulsed with lust.”
And:
ST II-II 78.1.3 Human laws leave certain things unpunished, on account of the condition of those who are imperfect, and who would be deprived of many advantages, if all sins were strictly forbidden and punishments appointed for them.
jhayes said,” If I remmber correctly, both Augustine and Thomas Aquinas argued that human law need not necessarily parallel divine law. Their example was that prostitution should probably not be made illegal.”
To the best of my knowledge I would not dispute that both Aquinas and Augustine felt that way about prostitution and that Aquinas believed that divine law and human law always had to coincide. However, there is a hierarchy of sin just as there is a hierarchy of truth. Prostitution – and by extension fornication and adultery – is not even close to being proportional to the grave sin and intrinsic evil of abortion. I do not believe either of them condoned the killing of innocent and defenseless human beings (abortion) nor would they suggest that society legalize it. One could argue that Augustine’s Just War theory could be invoked to militate against those such as Biden, Obama and the Democratic Party’s Platform which fosters and funds the deaths of millions of defenseless and innocent babies per year!
clarification: “I would not dispute . . . that Aquinas believed that human law did not always have to coincide with divine law.” Sorry.