POLITICIANS CANNOT BE CATHOLIC AND PRO-ABORTION
Archbishop Jose Gomez of San Antonio at an International Congress on Churches, the Lay State and Society, said most Catholic politicians in the United States have fallen into “ a distorted understanding of what their faith is.” During a speech on Catholics and public life in the US, he noted that “today 70% of politicians who claim to be Catholic in Congress and the Senate support abortion, and 90% in traditional Catholic states such as Massachusetts or New York.” Also in most elections a majority of Catholic voters vote for Catholic pro-abortion politicians.
With the recent Democrat takeover of the house and senate there will be more pro-abortion Catholics in leadership positions to promote their anti-Catholic human life policies. As a matter of simple honesty, anyone who has a principled difference with the Catholic Church on key doctrines shouldn’t call him or herself a Catholic, but there seems no shortage of Catholic politicians determined to reach out for Communion, while supporting and voting for legalized embryonic and unborn child abortion murder.
Catholic teaching on abortion says Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception, and has always affirmed the moral evil of abortion, and proclaims any Catholic a heretic who denies this truth (canon 751), and self excommunicated from the Catholic faith (canon 1364.)
Yet many politicians insist that they are both Catholic and “pro-choice.” They proclaim they are personally opposed to abortion, but are unwilling to put their beliefs into legislation. But abortion is objectionable because it is the killing a human being, and if it is that, government has a stern duty to prohibit it. For a lawmaker to proclaim that something is murder and yet support keeping it legal, and even government funded, displays a wickedness worse than the Nazi holocaust.
It is for the protection of the sinner’s soul and the prevention of scandal that Catholic canon 915 says, “Those who have been excommunicated…and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.” Catholic Bishops should enforce this Catholic teaching as Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XIV have instructed for the salvation of the Catholic pro-abortion politicians, to protect the Holy Eucharist from sacrilegious reception, to prevent the hypocrisy of the pro-abortion Catholic politicians, and the devastating scandal to other Catholics. However since the United States Council of Catholic Bishops have never complied with Canon 915 to deny Communion to Catholic pro-abortion politicians, or any other Catholic requirement to denounce such Catholic politicians, the true Catholic teaching is unknown by most Catholics, and ignored by pro-abortion Catholic politicians.
Catholics and many non-Catholics are coming to a greater agreement on the evil of abortion and other killing of innocent humans, for among our doctrinal disagreements there is much we agree upon and important among those is the imago Dei, the belief that man is created in the image of God. Christianity cannot survive without this concept, for upon it rests most of our doctrines and all human rights. It provides both for our dignity and our humility. As free mortals possessing immortal souls, we have a value that is greater than the entire material universe. But as created beings, we are dependent upon our Creator, Whom we are to worship and obey. This doctrine provides for the sanctity of each human being upon which Christianity and all human rights depend.
Because human beings are not merely created by God, but also share in His image, human life is sacrosanct and can only be taken in exceptional circumstances such as self defense. Innocent human life is never to be intentionally destroyed, for liberty or any other purpose of another human.
Cliff Zarsky, President of Corpus Christi Right to Life, Inc. 4710 Everhart, Corpus Christi, TX. 78411
Phone 765-1461