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Monday, September 22nd, 2008This morning, I ran across the first part of an online interview with Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Denver, Colorado. Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institute talks to Chaput about “Politics & Catholics.” It sounds like they’ll eventually be discussing Chaput’s new bestselling book, Render unto Caesar. The same day of the interview, though, The [...]
Faithful Catholics and Loyal Americans
Friday, September 12th, 2008Today Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas and Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Missouri issued a joint pastoral letter entitled “Our Moral Responsibility as Catholic Citizens.” After carefully explaining the priority of rejecting intrinsic evil when it comes to exercising the right to vote, the bishops quoted a 2004 memo from then-Cardinal [...]
Where do aborted babies go?
Friday, September 12th, 2008A CUF member asks… What happens to aborted babies at death? Are they considered martyrs? Are they admitted directly into heaven? We don’t know what happens to aborted babies. In hope we commend them to God’s infinite Love and Mercy. Theologians are working on the answer. Recently, the International Theological Commission came out with a [...]
Pelosi: Meet the Bishops
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008Since our last post concerning the pro-abortion views of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, she appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press, where she misrepresented Church teaching about abortion. Her public statements are increasingly drawing fire from the Church hierarchy. First, there’s the statement of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, coauthored by CUF episcopal [...]
No Moral Equivalence
Saturday, August 16th, 2008This morning Bishop Thomas Wenski of Orlando brought to my attention a letter he just had published in the Orlando Sentinel regarding the priority of abortion in assessing the candidates in the upcoming election. Here is what he wrote: “Jay Hamburg’s article Wednesday, ‘Evangelical: We Can Back Dems, Obama,’ inaccurately implied that Catholic leaders shared [...]
Telling It Like It Is
Thursday, August 14th, 2008I have to admit that on some issues I don’t see eye-to-eye with Patrick Buchanan. However, I think his recent article entitled “A Catholic Case Against Barack” is on the money as it lays out the moral problems any Catholic should have with supporting an Obama victory in November. In case you haven’t seen it, click [...]
Speaker out of Line
Friday, August 8th, 2008In a recent interview, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California and outspoken advocate of abortion rights, told a C-SPAN reporter that her abortion advocacy has not resulted in her being refused Holy Communion. She said: “I think some of it is regional. It depends on the bishop of a certain region and fortunately [...]
Imperfect Legislation, Candidates, Catholics
Thursday, May 29th, 2008As we prepare to make the prudential judgment as to how to vote this election season, we must first distinguish between candidates and issues. Pope John Paul II in Evangelium Vitae was very clear when it comes to a law permitting abortion or euthanasia. He said that it is “never licit to obey it, or to take [...]
Archbishop Chaput on “Proportionate Reasons”
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008In a previous post, I explored the issue of what would constitute a “proportionate reason” to support the candidacy of Sen. Barack Obama, who as of last night claims to have enough delegates to prevail at the Democratic Convention this summer. Archbishop Charles Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. of Denver recently addressed a similar issue in his archdiocesan [...]
A Catholic League of Their Own?
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008Earlier this month Catholic League president Bill Donohue called on Senator Barack Obama to dissolve his Catholic National Advisory Council because not one of the 26 former and current public policy makers in the group stand with the Catholic Church on key issues such as abortion, embryonic stem-cell research, and school vouchers. In addition, most [...]
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