A Man for All Seasons - 2 of 3

A Man for All Seasons – 2 of 3
In pursuit of the truth – cinops be gone – Sunday, January 18, 2009

This relentless pursuit of the Truth: St. Thomas More exuberated the truth; one of our several Founding Fathers, Alexander Hamilton pursued it; and the recently deceased Father Richard John Neuhaus lived it.

Neuhaus became intimately involved in the pro-life movement after the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, Jan. 22, 1973, and helped to unite pro-life advocates in both Catholic and Protestant circles. He continued as an intellectual heavyweight – founded the journal First Things in 1990 – and became even more well-known for his advising President George W. Bush on pro-life matters. His influence was so great on the president that his catch-phrase of “welcoming unborn children into life and protecting them under law” became Bush’s standard line any time he referenced pro-life matters. Today the President had a full text proclamation as “National Sanctity of Life Day – Sunday, January 18, 2009.”

Now in pursuit of the truth we have a problem with our U.S. Media. We have advocacy journalism. Their agenda is for a Secular America. Same-sex marriage is their immediate goal.

Historical examples of advocacy journalism were in Nazi Germany and Communist Russia. TODAY, The New York Times is the mouthpiece for Secular America. This newspaper just loves, protects and promotes any Catholic-in-name-only politician. Americans deserve fair and honest news reporting.

A blatant example of total news blackout and censorship is pro-life’s work on the Freedom of Choice Act post cards to Senators and members of Congress. The tentative Freedom of Choice Law is absolutely un-constitutional. Political correctness does not allow any discussion of this matter. Why should we continue to put up with this stupid political correctiness in this matter?

Now let’s get back to Archbishop Chaput’s book, Render Unto Caesar, chapter 5, “A Man for All Season.” In my judgment, President John F. Kennedy and Governor Mario Cuomo can’t stand in the shadow of St. Thomas More. The Governor is still alive and possibly the Archbishop’s kind comments will be a spiritual awakening for Mario Cuomo. I know Cuomo soothes his conscience by having vetoed as Governor of New York death penalty laws 12 times. The death penalty is not even a drop in the buckets of the blood shed by the killing of the unborn innocent babies.

I wonder if Governor Mario Cuomo has spoken out on the “Freedom of Choice Act,” or comment on the following section on p. 57 of Chaput’s book.
In 2004, another archbishop, Raymond Burke of St. Louis, drew national headlines. In his final weeks as bishop of La Crosse, Wisconsin, he asked three Catholic public figures from presenting themselves from Communion. He then asked his priests to withhold Communion from Catholic public officials who supported abortion rights. The three offending politicians claimed merely to be pro-choice.

In Burke’s view, though, their actions showed a material support for abortion and a stubborn disregard for their own faith. All three had voted for or otherwise supported forcing Catholic hospitals to provide abortions. In effect, they had publicly tried to coerce the church to violate her teaching on a serious sanctity-of-life issue.

George H. Kubeck