The Original Catholic Death Culture Idiots - 2

The Original Catholic Death Culture Idiots – 2
Sunday, March 9, 2008
We will continue from where we left off yesterday.
“Thus the basic lines of pro-choice rhetoric were sketched out by Catholic theologians, at the residence of America’s most famous Catholic family, nine years before the Roe v. Wade decision. The late President Kennedy had already laid the foundation for the argument that a Catholic politician must not attempt to enact his private religious views; now his brothers were prepared to take the next step forward. They were ready …they were personally opposed to abortion, but …
“Once the Roe decision was issued, and the question of abortion did become a hot political topic, liberal Catholics were ready with their reasons why Congress should not move to overturn the Supreme Court decision. The US bishops pleaded for Congress to act, but Catholic politicians held back. FROM 1977 THROUGH 1987 THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, TIP O’NEILL – A CATHOLIC DEMOCRAT FROM MASSACHUSETTS AND A KENNEDY ALLY – SAW TO IT THAT NOT A SINGLE VOTE WAS TAKEN ON ANY MEASURE TO RESTRICT ABORTION.
“As liberal Catholic theologians in the US did their utmost to obfuscate the moral principle involved –that the deliberate killing of innocent human beings can never be justified – the Vatican made every effort to clarify that issue. In a 1974 Declaration on Procured Abortion, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith announced: ‘It must in any case be clearly understood that whatever may be laid down by civil law in this matter, man can never obey a law which is in itself immoral, and such is the case of a law which would admit in principle the liceity of abortion. Nor can he take part in a propaganda campaign in favor of such a law, or vote for it.’
“Pro-life leaders quoted the Vatican document to liberal Catholic legislators, but they argued in vain. The defenders of legal abortion were now fully entrenched in their position, and – with respectable theologians still provided support in scholarly journals and newspaper editorial columns – insisted that their stand was in keeping with a carefully nuanced Catholic view.
“Years passed the number of babies aborted steadily rose, and the practice that had once been unthinkable gradually became accepted. In frustration, pro-life Catholic questioned why their bishops did not take action to discipline the wayward politicians. The Code of Cannon Law stipulates that anyone actively involved in an abortion – the woman who procures it, the doctor who performs it, the man who pays for it – is subject to the penalty of excommunication. (The excommunication in this case is latae sententiae, which means that it takes effect immediately by virtue of the offense; there is no need for any public announcement of the penalty.) If this penalty is invoked for involvement in one abortion, conservative Catholics wondered aloud, how could it not apply to those lawmakers aloud, how could it not apply to those lawmakers who, by their votes, allowed tens of thousands of abortion? …
“Pope John Paul II made another valiant effort to clarify the issue with his 1995 encyclical Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life) ‘ Abortion and euthanasia,’ the Pope wrote , ‘ are thus crimes which no human law can claim to legitimize.’ Every Catholic is under a “grave and clear obligation to oppose’ such laws, he said. Since a law allowing abortion is intrinsically unjust, ‘it is therefore never licit to obey it, or to take part in a propaganda campaign in favor of such a law or to vote for it.’” {Please study the two articles and come up with your observations.)

George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.