The bishops had to speak out

[Michie]

http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=127

Fr. Thomas D. Williams, LC, Vatican analyst for CBS News and author of numerous books, has an excellent article on National Review Online about why the bishops -- seven to date -- had to speak out after Nancy Pelosi’s abortion comments on Meet the Press.
Williams writes:

You are unlikely to ever come upon a group called Mohammedans for Polytheism or Environmentalists for Seal Slaughter. A Muslim who espouses a multiplicity of deities has, ipso facto, placed himself outside the Muslim confession. Polytheism is not an Islamic thing. An environmentalist who patronizes anti-ecological activities is not an environmentalist at all, but a subversive. This is because the monikers “Muslim” and “environmentalist” mean something; they carry with them a series of necessary consequences. Certain terms — like “Muslim” and “polytheism” — simply can’t be squared, and combining them is nonsensical.

[snip]

A solid core of beliefs or principles undergirds any human organization. These beliefs constitute the cement that binds the society together and determine its identity. Obviously plenty of issues fall outside this fundamental core, and there is a difference between legitimate pluralism of opinion and arrant contradiction. Environmentalists, for example, can disagree about many things — such as strategies, priorities, tactics, funding and the like — but devotion to the environment and its logical corollaries are not up for debate. If you sport a mink coat, you’re out of the club.

Being Catholic is no different. The title “Catholic” presumes a whole string of basic beliefs, succinctly laid out in the Apostle’s Creed. Catholics believe in one God, creator of heaven and earth, in Jesus Christ his only begotten son who became man, suffered and died for us, rose from the dead on the third day, and so forth. Along with this canon of doctrines, Catholics also embrace a body of moral teaching (summed up tidily in the Catechism of the Catholic Church) which governs their understanding of right and wrong, what is pleasing to God and what offends Him.
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Williams makes the argument that by denying the moral significance of abortion, Pelosi forced the bishops’ hands.
Read the entire articlehere.

http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=127

 

[2Cosmic2Charlie]

You are unlikely to ever come upon a group called Mohammedans for Polytheism or

Just about as unlikely as you are to come across a Muslim who refers to himself as "Mohammedan"


Who are these people ?

Good gravy .

 

[Rhamiel]

in your other thread it talks about how the Catholic Church does not want to look like the lap dog of the GOP, that is what struck me as odd about Pelosi and Biden, it is like they are forcing the Catholic Church to condemn them. Why they are doing this on an election year is beyond me.