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Are there any Catholic’s in National Office?

May 16, 2007 |

I do believe that it would be hard for a practicing Roman Catholic to be elected to national office. How can anyone claim to be Catholic if they have chosen a Pro-Choice position? And that is just one of many non-negotiable topics that Catholic politicians have a moral duty to oppose. I know the “Catholic” politicians and those few in the conservative media like the sound bite of claiming to be Catholic. But their actions do not support that position.

Of course, a panel of Catholic bishops who studied what the Church’s response should be enables those “Catholic’s” in Washington, D.C. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick of Washington, DC, who says he would not be comfortable denying them the Eucharist, led this council.

Even John F. Kennedy stated, “I am not the Catholic candidate for president. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate who happens also to be Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters and the Church does not speak for me.”

Today Eighteen Catholic members of the U.S. House of Representatives have publicly criticized Pope Benedict XVI’s condemnation of politicians who support abortion rights. Please read, Against the Deathocrats: A Catholic Manifesto.

All we can do is pray that the Holy Spirit descends upon them and brings them back to their faith. I will be praying for them all.


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  1. thedivinelamp on May 16, 2007 11:58 pm

    Thank you for the link. I have been trying for several days to get Catholics smarter than me to expose why the usual response of pro-choice Catholic politicians is bogus. I think my article gives some indication of the problem, but Catholics need to educate themselves concerning the line between Church and state. The ignorance of Catholics on the issue opens the door to both the whining of psuedo-Catholic politicians and the press that pimps for them.

    When a Catholic politician is excommunicated or denied communion,he is not being told he can no longer be a politician. On the other hand, when a Catholic politician tries to argue that he is exempt from the Church’s moral authority due to his status as a politician, he is certainly trying to use his political status to thwart the Church’s mission. In effect, he is telling the Church her teaching is not binding on him as a politician. To put it another way, he is telling the Church it can no longer be the Church. So why should the Church still pretend he is within the fold. He can be that kind of politician outside the Church. It would still be damnable; but at least it would be a little more honest.

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