Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly Managing Editor Kim Lawton looks at a draft statement on "faithful citizenship" from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and talks about what's likely to be controversial when the bishops debate the draft at their upcoming fall meeting.
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...We have been given the Gift of Divine Truth through the Life and Death on the Cross of our Savior, Jesus Christ.Where are the Catholic politicians that have the courage to go outside political party platforms and confirm this Truth? If it is true that the Catholic vote has such a large impact, why not be the first to challange these platforms and create a new platform that confirms the Truth as revealed to us by Jesus Christ?
As a lifelong United Methodist whose church believes that women have a choice in deciding their fertility and future. I love and applaud my church for that support for women. I have spent most of my adult life working to achieve and sustain the notion that women must have the right to determine if and when they become mothers. No job is more important than raising one's children and it is difficult and it is wonderful and it should never be a forced and unwanted situation. Too many children are born into that situation and they have the right to be
supremely wanted and supremely loved. To force a woman to continue a pregnancy against her will is an affront to God.
Remember what the US Cath. Bishops said in 1980: continued possession of nuclear weapons is immoral. Progress must be made toward their elimination. They are the greatest threat to humanity and the earth. The "Doomsday" clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is 5 minutes to midnight. I hope the bishops also consider this issue.
Br. Joe,
Please accept in the spirit of brotherhood/sisterhood my suggestion that you may want to think a little more carefully about your comments.
Your position infers that only only those children (people) who are 'supremely wanted' have the right to life. Recall that there was a political party in Germany in the 1930's - 1940's who espoused that very same belief. If as a society we accept your premise that the lives of those persons who are not "wanted" could be (may be) terminated, then God help those in orphanages, nursing homes, refugee camps, prisons, etc. Again, recall the events and atrocities in Germany/Poland during the WWII era.
Your use of the term "supremely wanted" seems a bit ironic. Could you really believe that the Supreme God does not love each and every human being, whether or not they are considered to be "wanted" by other humans? The many references in the Bible to the poor, lame, widows, orphans, lepers, etc. suggest otherwise.
Peace, brother.