Bishops condemn sin!
Thanks to Patriots for Bush for pointing out that yesterday, at long last, the U.S. Conference of (Catholic) Bishops officially condemned the "Cuomo dodge-" the idea that one's obligations as a Catholic Christian are met by being personally opposed to abortion, while favoring its continued legality on sociological or other secular grounds.
The Catholic News Service quotes the bishops as stating that Catholic politicians who act "consistently to support abortion on demand" risk "cooperating in evil and sinning against the common good," and that "those who formulate the law" are morally compelled "to work toward correcting morally defective laws."
"The killing of an unborn child is always intrinsically evil," the bishops stated. "To make such intrinsically evil actions legal is itself wrong."
Catholic politicians who availed themselves of "the Cuomo dodge-" including former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, who first articulated it in a famous speech at Notre Dame University, and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry- often do so on the ground of their oath to the Constitution, which the Supreme Court, in Roe v. Wade, has authoritatively (if incomprehensibly) ruled guarantees a right to abortion. None of them have never gotten around to explaining how that oath prevents them from working, while faithfully fulfilling that oath, to reverse Roe v. Wade, or alternatively to amend the Constitution- or how, having failed to do so, they can continue to claim to agree with their church's teaching on the subject even "privately."
Regrettably- and inconsistently- the bishops stopped short of mandating that pro-choice Catholic politicians be denied communion, leaving the matter to the consciences of the apostate Catholics in question and the policy of the local bishop. Still, this is a substantial step forward- and one which leaders of other churches- including Lutheran churches- which profess to take I Corinthians 11 seriously should reflect upon in considering how to deal with their own parishioners who publicly flaunt the biblical teaching to which the Christian church has, in the main, held fast ever since the time of the Apostles.
The Catholic News Service quotes the bishops as stating that Catholic politicians who act "consistently to support abortion on demand" risk "cooperating in evil and sinning against the common good," and that "those who formulate the law" are morally compelled "to work toward correcting morally defective laws."
"The killing of an unborn child is always intrinsically evil," the bishops stated. "To make such intrinsically evil actions legal is itself wrong."
Catholic politicians who availed themselves of "the Cuomo dodge-" including former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, who first articulated it in a famous speech at Notre Dame University, and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry- often do so on the ground of their oath to the Constitution, which the Supreme Court, in Roe v. Wade, has authoritatively (if incomprehensibly) ruled guarantees a right to abortion. None of them have never gotten around to explaining how that oath prevents them from working, while faithfully fulfilling that oath, to reverse Roe v. Wade, or alternatively to amend the Constitution- or how, having failed to do so, they can continue to claim to agree with their church's teaching on the subject even "privately."
Regrettably- and inconsistently- the bishops stopped short of mandating that pro-choice Catholic politicians be denied communion, leaving the matter to the consciences of the apostate Catholics in question and the policy of the local bishop. Still, this is a substantial step forward- and one which leaders of other churches- including Lutheran churches- which profess to take I Corinthians 11 seriously should reflect upon in considering how to deal with their own parishioners who publicly flaunt the biblical teaching to which the Christian church has, in the main, held fast ever since the time of the Apostles.
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