WE APPLAUD RATZINGER

The Pope visits our hemisphere and things start popping. This is great!

Finally, we might get some resolution.

No person, including any politician, can support legal abortions and also be a member of the Roman Catholic Church. Politicians who support abortion are excommunicated

The Vatican is clarifying, saying that a politician who votes for a woman’s right to choose is not the subject of a formal Church proceeding that results in an official declaration of excommunication. Rather, they are saying that such a politician “excommunicates him or her self.”

I applaud the Pope’s public assertion of this rule.

By exposing his views, the Pope will draw the worldwide reaction that he and his dogma deserve.

There are millions of people who think of themselves as Catholics who support a woman’s right to choose abortion.

By kicking them out, the Roman Catholic Church will further diminish its ranks, and it’s influence.

The heat is on (U.S. presidential candidate Rudolph) Giuliani. Soon the spotlight will be turned on (House Speaker Nancy) Pelosi. Remember:

In order to be a Catholic, one must oppose all abortions, even in cases of rape or incest.

The Roman Catholic Church was created in the fourth century A.D. by the Roman Emperor Constantine. Before the founding of the Roman Catholic Church there were many Christians who were born, lived, and died, and went to heaven.

This will be true, also, after the fall of the Roman Catholic Church, an earthly institution with only one consistent policy—it has always exercised the preferential option for its own power, or as Pud would say, “for its own fat ass.”

The Christian leaders who decided to cast their lot with the power and might of the Roman Empire made a terrible mistake.

As the pre-Constantine believers demonstrate, one can be a good Christian and go to heaven without being a member of the Roman Catholic Church.

The world doesn’t need a Roman Church. The world doesn’t need a Catholic (hegemonic, imperialistic) Church. It would be interesting to see if the world could benefit from a truly Christian Church.

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WOMEN MUST BEAR RAPISTS' KIDS

“The path of ideology leads to heartlessness and cruelty.”
Pudinhand Wilson

This CNS April 30 Newsbriefs story reminds us that no matter how earnestly liberal theologians try to soften the edges of Catholic ideology, collection-plate dollars are being used daily to thump thump thump away at women’s reproductive health.

Bishops fight contraception mandate in Connecticut Catholic hospitals

Declaring that "Catholic institutions should have a right to be Catholic," the Connecticut bishops stepped up a campaign urging lawmakers to amend or defeat a bill that would require all Catholic hospitals in the state to provide emergency contraception to rape victims.

Let’s say you’re twelve year old daughter has been raped, she is picked up unconscious and without identification and is taken to a Catholic hospital. They will not administer morning after medication.

In the Church’s opinion, your twelve year old daughter, if she has conceived, has an obligation to carry the rapist’s child to term.

This is now the official policy of the US Supreme Court. They (the Catholic-five) view any abortion as murder. They will commit lesser sins, such as lying to Judiciary Committees, or keeping their fingers crossed when taking their oaths, or misrepresenting their legal opinions, in order to save innocent people (unborn) from being murdered.

If they did less they would face excommunication.

In another CNS story the Pope pleads for priestly vocations.

Pope pleads for vocations as he ordains 22 new priests for Rome

Of the 22 new priests who will serve in the Diocese of Rome, 12 were from Italy and 10 from other countries on three continents.

The Catholic Church flourished in an age of ignorance. Access to information in the Dark Ages, say, was limited to priestly pronouncements. A peasant who was told that the Catholic Church is the one true Church had no basis of comparison.

These days where I live, in San Francisco, even the poorest person who can locomote to a branch library can go on the internet and find out with a few clicks how many religions there might be to choose from.

Anyway, as Roman Catholics, the Five Supremes take moral orders from the head of state of a foreign country. Their loyalty to the Pope supersedes loyalty to any civil authority.

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VIVA MEXICO! (CIUDAD DE)

Mexico City has legalized first trimester abortions. Catholics are upset as a matter of religion (and sex uptightness).

The five Catholics on the U.S. Supreme Court appear ready to rubberstamp any anti-sex, anti-reproductive health laws any crackpot legislative body can come up with.

The practical effect of abortion and contraception restrictions (don’t forget, the Catholic Church is DEAD SET AGAINST the distribution of contraceptives) is felt differently according to class.

As long as there are progressive countries in the world that offer safe legal abortions on demand, a family with the wherewithal can send a wife or daughter to that country to terminate an unwanted pregnancy.

This option is always open to the financially qualified no matter how much they may be opposed to abortion in principal, or for other people.

Only poor women are forced into unsafe, illegal procedures, that is, if they don’t want to cede control of their bodies to an ex-Hitler Youth named Ratzinger who lives in a palace in Rome and dresses funny.

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SLICK OR SLACK

Thanks to Mirror of Justice and Inside Higher Ed for sharing this amusing bit of moral slapstick.

Story Outline:

1) First year law student at Georgetown University (Jesuit) applies for summer internship funding from the school (common practice).
2) Her internship is to be with Planned Parenthood.
3) The school denies funding because Planned Parenthood kills babies (supports abortion).
4) School officials help student find outside sources to fund her summer internship (kill babies).

Conclusion: It’s not about babies, it’s about funding sources.

The young woman involved (law student) thinks breach of contract. Also, she thinks discrimination.

As quoted in the insidehighered article she says:

“If the school wants to abide by Catholic doctrine it should do so consistently and prevent all activities the Church disagrees with. This includes prosecutors’ offices that impose the death penalty, gay rights organizations, political candidates and judges that hold positions that disagree with the Catholic church, military law organizations and human rights organizations (the majority of which support reproductive rights, as well)."

A spokesman for Georgetown replied:

“I don’t think Georgetown needs to enact Catholic doctrine on every issue — that wouldn’t be desirable,” he said. “But the most bedrock Catholic teaching is the protection of life. No advocacy group that works against that principle should be supported by the university.”

So, the bedrock issue remains women’s control of their own bodies. Ratzinger says he should have control of women’s bodies (worldwide), and he’s infallible.

In the report Jenny Woodson, the law student, says of the Jesuit University:

“If I ever knew that taking part in women’s rights issues would lead to a chilling effect, I don’t know if I would have ever considered coming here.”

Obvious misogyny. Obvious hypocrisy. With the internet we hear about these things.

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AN ABORTION PREVENTED

She was a nice young woman, we’ll call her Ms M. She had been in the wrong place at the wrong time and she got pregnant. She decided to have an abortion.

There are many heart-wrenching stories that lead up to women’s decisions abort their babies. Ms M’s was particularly innocent. Ms M wanted above all else to be a Catholic nun. She thought that having a baby would disqualify her.

Ms M had been raped. Otherwise she was and remained a virgin. She was an extremely unlucky girl.

Ms M had walked to the small clinic where the abortion was scheduled. As she approached the entrance, Ms M saw a blinding flash of light.

The abortion was prevented.

The date was August 9, 1945. The place was Nagasaki.

The losers in this story are Ms M. and the doctor who was going to help her. Because, at the last moment of their lives they were intent on murdering an unborn child, they both spend eternity in hell.

Of course the overall American effort in WWII was AMDG, and the atom-bombing of Hiroshima was AMDG.

The man who raped Ms M survived the war and later converted to Catholicism and the remainder of his life was exemplary.

The rapist would like to apologize to Ms M, but he can’t. Their paths will never cross. The rapist will spend eternity in heaven, Ms M in hell.

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