My fellow Catholics, I have read the rules of the forum regarding the discussion of abortion. I whole heartedly believe in Catholic teaching that it is a grave evil that is no conduct becoming saints. It is a sin and it is mortal, rendering a soul completely cut off from God and no hope of salvation without repentance
Yet God tells us to judge not, lest we be judged. Vengeance is mine says the Lord, I will repay. In our zeal against this grave evil, we have somehow lost and alienated the souls whom God desires to save. How?
What I am about to say comes from months of prayer and standing on the front lines. I have sacrificed my career as a physician to the glory of God and I count it all loss for the cause of Christ. I have been fired for refusing to participate in tubal ligations, aka female sterilizations because it violated natural law, and I had to seek work 1500 miles from home to practice my profession and faith with a clear conscience.
Even the Catholic hospital in which I now work has physicians that do not believe in Catholic teaching. I had to stand my ground and inform them that sterilizations and transgender surgeries are not to be performed in a Catholic hospital. The CEO, the Chief Medical officer and the Chief of anesthesia do not understand Catholic teaching, and told me it is above their pay grade, but miraculously deferred to my judgment and have agreed to uphold Catholic teaching. This is my thinking and the basis of what I told them.
I told them that a Catholic Hospital is a charitable organization that provides healthcare to all, regardless of race, color, creed, religion, beliefs, opinions, etc .. Healthcare is befitting human dignity. Abortion, sterilization, and transgender surgeries are not healthcare, they are religious procedures that happen to involve medicine and surgery.
Where did that come from? We cannot have a rational discussion without an agreement on the definition of terms. Satan loves unclear definitions, which is how he presents himself as an angel of light or as wearing sheep’s clothing.
It is difficult to argue against healthcare, so the abortion lobby has fought very hard to define abortion, sterilization and transgender surgeries as health care. But are they?
My definition of healthcare, I say mine because I have not heard others speak this way, is the diagnosis and treatment of disease, as well as the maintenance of normal human function.
Abortion, sterilization and transgender surgery are not healthcare because the patient has no disease. Their body functions as a normal human and a person can live a full normal life without them. They are performed because a person believes that their life will be improved by having them done, not due to any objective criteria. This makes them religious rituals and not healthcare; therefore, they have no place in a Catholic hospital.
I submit my thoughts to you, and I have shared them with my Bishop, as well as priest and pastor and spiritual director. I have received so much spiritual consolation when I think about it, as I believe we can eradicated abortion and sterilization from the USA and eventually the world more thoroughly than if we had a world wide abortion ban. This is a danger to me as it leads to delusions of grandeur. As my friends, please rip me to shreds, take apart my argument and tell me I am crazy, but I will tell you why I think that I am not.
The greatest event in the history of the western hemisphere that they do not teach us in school, not even Catholic school in the USA, is the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Juan Diego in 1531. The apparition resulted in 10 million conversions to the Catholic Church in just 10 years and has made Mexico one of the most Catholic Countries on Earth. What happened?
The Spanish missionaries were trying to convert the Aztecs, but did not have much success. They told the Aztecs that the missionaries were bringing them news of the true God, and the Aztec Gods were either dead or impotent. The Aztecs thought that if the Spaniards were telling the truth, then the Aztecs felt as though they should die also, along with their gods. Their primary diety was named
Quetzalcōātl
Worship of this feathered serpent diety included human sacrifice. In 1487, there was an event where 80,400 people were sacrificed over the course of 4 days. I have heard remors that there were rivers of blood flowing from their pyramids
Our Lady appears to Juan Diego, not in power and judgement clamoring for a legal ban on human sacrifice, but as a loving mother that told them sacrifice is not needed, her Son had already sacrificed Himself for the whole world.
She appeared in such a way that the Aztecs knew she is the queen of heaven, she crushes the head of their serpent god, and she takes them all in her loving arms just as they are, respecting their culture.
It is a beautiful account and the original tilma from Juan Diego is still on display in Mexico City at the Shrine or Our Lady of Guadalupe. Please read the story, I am amazed at the account the more I read about it.
What does this have to do with abortion in the USA? The Aztecs performed human sacrifice, abortion is human sacrifice. Our Lady cried for the Aztecs and she cries for the millions of souls harmed by abortion. Take a look at the bottom of the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe. There is a cherub with the wings of an eagle, and the color of those wings are red, white, and blue. Coincidence? I think not
The US constitution has the first amendment which gives us freedom of religion. If we read the text of the amendment it also prevents to government from establishing a religion. How is that significant?
By calling abortion, sterilization, contraception and transgender surgeries healthcare, when they are no such thing, the government has effectively established a religion and that is unconstitutional.
This establishment has caused irreparable harm to other’s religious freedom. What is the remedy? We have the freedom of religion, if it’s defined as religious, we have no hope of banning those procedures. Maybe, but we need faith in God
If the government is guilty of establishing a religion, then any facility that receives federal or state funds would be immediately banned from performing those procedures due to the establishment clause. That means no hospital, no clinic, no surgery center, no doctors office that receives federal or state funds would be authorized to perform these procedures
People wound have the freedom of religion to do them, but they would have to pay for them themselves and find their own practitioners. Due to the establishment clause, no medical school, college, or nursing school that receives government funding would be authorized to teach them
Right now we have states that want to fund planned parenthood, unconstitutional. Obamacare forces contraceptives and sterilization and abortion , unconstitutional .
God is prochoice, because he is love. Love is not love unless it is free. The Catholic Church teaches free will, unlike the Calvinist irresistible grace.
If there is no money in it, doctors stop performing them. If it is marked as religious, women would not be as easily deceived into having them.
Scripture says, I set before you life and death. If we follow the Lord, we walk the path of life. If we wish to follow serpent gods with unrestrained lust and debauchery, there is nothing to expect except death. Your choice
Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us
What do you think?
