Do Mess with the CINOPS - 1 (V.I.P.)

Do Mess with the CINOPS – 1 (V.I.P.)
Friday, Jan. 18, 2008
More and more professors like Robert George, a McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University will write articles like the one in First Things, that unlike the clergy sexual abuse scandal, the tolerated scandal of prominent anti-life Catholics continues to engender far more insidious effects upon society. (“Danger and Opportunity: A Plea to Catholics” in First Things.)

Robert George feels that the scandal of pro-abortion Catholics and its cover-up by bishops threatens more damage to the Catholic Church than the abhorrent scandal of pedophile priest hiding behind their Roman collars to perpetuate crimes against children. I agree with him and it is time for the Catholic Laity to resolves this most serious problem with a simple No Vote for all CINOPS.

George states. “Nothing undermines the cause of justice and cultural reform and renewal than the bad example of prominent Catholics who have made themselves instruments of what Pope John Paul II bluntly described as ‘the culture of death.’”

George continues, “The scandal given by these individuals over the past thirty years, particularly to the exposure of the unborn to abortion and more recently, embryo-destructive research, is far greater in its cultural effects even than the horrific-the word is not too strong-scandal of clergy sex abuse.” The pro-life movement has been carrying this cross for decades. And that is only the tip of the iceberg. It is the CINOPS promotion directly and indirectly the inherent evils of assisted-suicide, euthanasia and same-sex marriage. And they believe that they can get away with all that and murder in this coming election year. They won’t.

There is a role for the bishops and there is also a role for the Catholic Laity.
As bishops they do not have to get involved in politics but exhort lay Catholics to fulfill their responsibilities in the political arena and other cultural dimensions and let them know about the culture war going on. Also, politics is not a dirty word and everyone in the parish should be registered to vote and to vote by absentee ballot. On election, they can persuade and call others to vote.

If the scandals have enough power to make many Catholic “lose confidence in the reliability of the Church as a teacher of truth, particularly in the moral domain” then the Church’s toleration of publicly proclaimed pro-abortion Catholics is much worse, especially when the culture is in … peril.

Robert George writes that Catholics should know that the Church faces both “danger” and an “opportunity for a special kind of greatness, the greatness, the greatness that comes only in times of the most profound danger.

“Critical (possible irreversible) decisions will be made in the year or two” writes George, indicating that the particular decisions to which he is referring will occur in the field of marriage and bioethics. Both issues, he says, “will go one way or the other depending on the posture and actions of Catholics.” In Canada, the bishops failed to deal with the CINOP. Most U.S. dioceses will not fail in this matter.
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