Finally! Vatican to crack down on pro-choice, pro-homosexuality nuns
I've always wondered why the Pope didn't start excommunicating pro-choice politicians. Why let the teachings of his church be publicly flouted by people who- in the embarassingly purile formula famously offered by Mario Cuomo- said that they were personally opposed to murder, but didn't want to impose their views on that subject upon others? Granted, the First Amendment grants people the right to not believe that all living members of species Homo sapiens sapiens are persons, whose lives should be sacrosanct. But at the very least, don't those who believe that legalized abortion on demand is legalized murder have an obligation- and one perfectly consistent with religious pluralism, at that- to at least try to persuade them otherwise? Granted, too, that Christian politicians are obligated to support and enforce the law. But where that law is unjust, do they not have an absolute obligation to seek to change it?
I've said it many times, and I'll say it again: I can respect a person who is pro-choice because he or she honestly doesn't believe that an unborn child is the moral equivalent of someone who has already been born. But I cannot respect anyone who believes otherwise- and yet supports the legality of what he or she believes to be the murder of children.
Well, it seems that the Vatican has at least begun to find its backbone. A crackdown has begun against certain radical American nuns who flout the church's teachings on abortion, homosexuality, and other issues.
The truly tragic thing is the number of people who will find it objectionable that the Catholic church expects Catholics to be Catholic in their beliefs, especially when speaking and acting publicly as its representatives.
HT: Drudge
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These women tend to respect the Commission to reproduce and recreate humanity making them Co-Creators with God and the only viable sign of our ability to rejuvenate, evolve and health our genealogy as children of God.
Imagine those who are not involved in this blessed co-par intune with the Universal Gods's commandment >."Go Ye and Reproduce and Bless the earth and heavens">>>
Imagine a civilization that leaves the most important function of reproduction into the hands of those who have chosen to be barren, the monks and nuns.
It is amazing how we allow those who have no experience in reproduction to demand to control our reproduction and in effect our partnership in co-creation and Good Governance with God in his Universal Kingdom.
The Universal God: Omnipresent Omniscient and all powerful God has to intervene once more again to correct this gross injustice via another Visitation? Should that visitation be by Angel Gabriel or the Vatican?
Please read the pretender visitation and its report!
The last visitation created a commandment ..."Love and worship the Universal God with all your heart and Soul, and then love your neighbor as thyself."
I wonder if this new visitations are consistent with this new Covenant of Love God and your neighbor as thyself" Remember, we need to love our selves appropriately first to love others accordingly.
The recent wave of suicide bombers reminds us that some people do not love themselves and take others to death
Eventually love is about life and reproductive rights protects this covenant. The question is we need to love the youth, adult and seniors as much as are expected to love the new embryo as love has no bounds of time, age, sex, gender and ethnicity or religious persuasions.
With respect and seeking your alternative perspectives and enlightenments
Belai Habte-Jesus, MD, MPH
www.GlobalBelaiJesus.com
The Christian Faith (and more specifically the Catholic- or Lutheran- understanding of the Christian faith) is what it is. If one disagrees with it, one is of course free no longer to consider oneself a Catholic or a Lutheran or a Christian. But it is dishonest to claim identity with a religious tradition which defines itself at least in part by the condemnation of one's beliefs, and the affirmation of their opposite.
While I disagree with your church's stand on birth control, I would find it ethically embarassing to speak as a member of the clergy (or "religious," in Catholic terms) in contradiction of what the understanding of the Faith I publicly claim as my own teaches.
Now, I happen to disagree with what your church teaches on the subject of birth control, despite my agreement with what it teaches about homosexuality or abortion. But then, that's one of the reasons why I am not a Catholic. I think it reasonable to expect those who dissent from the doctrinal teachings of their church- whichever it might be- to do the ethical and honest thing, and no longer to claim membership in it.
Abortion isn't about love. It's about power- the power to subjugate even the claims of the sanctity of life itself to self-will. The number of barren couples waiting to adopt a child and eager to give it a good and loving home precludes any notion that somehow chemically dissolving or mechanically dismembering a child in utero is in any sense an act of love. And the moment we so desecrate the word "love" to say that it requires us to pull unborn children limb from limb in utero, how does that differ from Orwell's world of 1984, in which war is peace, love is hate, and freedom is slavery?