Comments on: Percentage of Americans Approving Abortion Dropped 8% since August: Pew Poll http://catholicexchange.com/2009/05/04/118232/ Catholic News, Catholic Articles, Catholic Apologetics, Catholic Content, Catholic Information Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 By: dennisofraleigh http://catholicexchange.com/2009/05/04/118232/comment-page-1/#comment-39702 dennisofraleigh Mon, 04 May 2009 15:55:49 +0000 http://catholicexchange.com/?p=118232#comment-39702 Yeah, that and a couple of bucks will buy you a donut and coffe at the local diner. As long as this disapproval of abortion goes no higher on the scale of priorities among American voters than depletion of the ozone and illiteracy we're going to continue to see abortyrants like Barbara Boxer and Chuck Shumer returning to their D.C. offices term after term and continue to easily bat down any effort to restrict or ban abortion on the part of pro-life lawmakers. And Joe, to answer your question, officially the Catholic Church is the most pro-life organization in the world. At least on paper and in the episcopate. As for lay Catholics, in the U.S. and Europe they have for the most part apostasized from their own Church's teachings regarding the moral outrage that is abortion, and chosen instead to go with what is most politically expedient, never mind what happens to untold thousands of unborn babies year in and year out. Out of sight. Out of mind. And to add to the scandal, too many of our Catholic pastors would as soon let their parishioners continue sleepwalking than awaken them to the horrors going on, in some cases, a short automobile drive from the parish church where they attend Mass on any given Sunday. We need to pray for our fellow Catholics, not merely for the sake of the unborn, but because of the desperate state of the souls of those who have grown deaf to the cries of the unborn. Yeah, that and a couple of bucks will buy you a donut and coffe at the local diner. As long as this disapproval of abortion goes no higher on the scale of priorities among American voters than depletion of the ozone and illiteracy we’re going to continue to see abortyrants like Barbara Boxer and Chuck Shumer returning to their D.C. offices term after term and continue to easily bat down any effort to restrict or ban abortion on the part of pro-life lawmakers.

And Joe, to answer your question, officially the Catholic Church is the most pro-life organization in the world. At least on paper and in the episcopate. As for lay Catholics, in the U.S. and Europe they have for the most part apostasized from their own Church’s teachings regarding the moral outrage that is abortion, and chosen instead to go with what is most politically expedient, never mind what happens to untold thousands of unborn babies year in and year out. Out of sight. Out of mind.
And to add to the scandal, too many of our Catholic pastors would as soon let their parishioners continue sleepwalking than awaken them to the horrors going on, in some cases, a short automobile drive from the parish church where they attend Mass on any given Sunday. We need to pray for our fellow Catholics, not merely for the sake of the unborn, but because of the desperate state of the souls of those who have grown deaf to the cries of the unborn.

]]> By: Joe DeVet http://catholicexchange.com/2009/05/04/118232/comment-page-1/#comment-39693 Joe DeVet Mon, 04 May 2009 11:46:17 +0000 http://catholicexchange.com/?p=118232#comment-39693 Why is it that Catholics are not the most pro-life group? Why is it that Catholics are not the most pro-life group?

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