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Judge all you want where I’m concerned! Many of you won’t like what I’m about to say because it may challenge your faith to its roots …but I stand by each and every word. I believe I am doing my best to enlighten the under-educated with regards to their faith, in an attempt to save the lives of the unborn. In this Year of Mercy, I’m supposed to have mercy for all those human beings that are troubled and without material gain in this life …but WHO will have mercy on the millions of unborn humans who will never see their birthday? When it comes to this atrocity of abortion, our country should be a beacon to the rest of the world. In this Year of Mercy, I AM A SINNER of the most horrendous nature as I HAVE NO MERCY for ANYONE who would submit to a “reasoning" that would allow millions of innocents to perish every year. I will NOT vote for a party that is Pro-Choice in any capacity and I WILL VOTE for the Presidential Candidate that is self professed to be Pro-Life …because I am a Roman Catholic!!!
It has come to my attention that several bishops, including Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of illinois,1 have given their recommendations for this voting season with slightly different positions from previous elections where they educated Catholics about the consequences of their vote! Such as, if they vote for a candidate from any party who promotes behaviors or activities that are, “intrinsically evil and gravely sinful,” a voter can become “morally complicit,” putting their very soul in jeopardy.
This year, however, some bishops are now saying that perhaps Catholic Voters may take an alternative path by not voting at all in the presidential election. That the Catholic Voter, "may also legitimately conclude in conscience that they cannot vote for either (Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump).” In this election, I believe these bishops are providing wrong advice to Catholic voters!!!
Section 2272 of the Catechism says that: “2272 Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life. “A person who procures a completed abortion incurs excommunicationlatae sententiae,”77 “by the very commission of the offense,”78 and subject to the conditions provided by Canon Law.79 The Church does not thereby intend to restrict the scope of mercy. Rather, she makes clear the gravity of the crime committed, the irreparable harm done to the innocent who is put to death, as well as to the parents and the whole of society. (1463)” 2
Any person or person of authority within the Church that would advocate that a United States of America Catholic Citizen not vote in THIS presidential election of 2016 would seem to be working against Church teachings! If the cards were stacked against the Pro-Choice Candidate and it was certain they would lose, one might take the view that it wouldn’t matter. However…in this election, when the odds may be stacked against a professed Pro-Life candidate, and when as many as four (4) Supreme Court Justice appointments could occur in the next four (4) years, you cannot sit by and shirk your duty as a faithful Catholic! Every Catholic in the United States should be a single issue voter! NO MATTER WHAT…we should vote for the PRO-LIFE candidate for President! If you merely focus on the poor, the infirmed, the disenfranchised, the “alien or stranger in our land” or wars throughout the world, which are other issues that call for the protection of life, how can those evolving lives matter if we cannot stop the murder of the first instance of evolving life? Therefore, other life issues must be secondary to the fundamental right to life and the effort to overturn the Roe v. Wade path of destruction of life! To win this entrenched war, we must combine our efforts and rally our forces! This Election is about our future, our children's future, and our grandchildren's future that will be affected by the Supreme Court Appointments!!! No matter what you feel or think about the candidates, the issues or your feelings, your responsibility to the Pro-Life Movement within the Catholic Church should supersede any and all other concerns!!!
We are at war with social liberalism whose blood sacrifices to their god of secularism runs in the hundreds of thousands each year! Those who seem to believe that their leftist party affiliations are good and wonderful need only look to the “Democrat Socialist Utopia” established in a city like Detroit to see how the impoverished are treated in this country.…or maybe have a gander at Chicago to see how much concern they have for the blacks that are being murdered by other blacks in excessive numbers each and every weekend. Where is “Black Lives Matter” when black lives really matter? Promises have been made for decades and are continually unfulfilled. We have been lied to and deceived and they are praying to their false god that YOU will vote for the Left's agenda again…or not vote at all!
If you choose to vote for a candidate that you KNOW will be the fiercest Pro-Abortion Candidate in history, I believe that you will have to give an accounting to God at your judgement of all those children that have died under the abortionist’s scalpel as a result of your decision to support this candidate's agenda, instead of voting for one who would support Pro-Life laws and Supreme Court Justices who would rule over them! By not voting for the Pro-Life Candidate in this election, you may personally set the Pro-Life Movement back by generations and allow evil to run amok!
The Democrat Party is the Party of Planned Parenthood who has profited twice - in the killing of innocent human beings and then in selling their tiny body parts, which seemingly have a higher value dead that alive! Do you feel that Planned Parenthood’s evaluation of Human Life supersedes Our Lord’s value of that life? So here is the quandary, you cannot be Roman Catholic and be Pro-Choice. If you support the Democrat Pro-Abortion platform, you are formally cooperating with each and every abortion that occurs! You are no longer a Roman Catholic…you are excommunicated. If you want to correct that…to move the Democrats back so you can assist the poor and the disenfranchised, you have an obligation to work against the Party Platform in the matter of abortion! When abortion killing of tiny human beings is stopped, you may go back to voting your conscience in whatever matters you wish. Until then, I beleve your soul is on the line every time you vote against the Pro-Life teachings of Holy Mother Church (and in most cases, a non-vote is as good as a vote for the abortionist)! You have only one choice!!! Get to the ballot box…turn your conscience to the millions of babies that will die if you don’t swallow your pride, hold your nose, and vote Pro-Life!!! THEIR LIVES ARE IN YOUR HANDS!!! Vote accordingly!!!
References:
2 United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. “Catechism of the Catholic Church.” iBooks.https://itun.es/us/kMWMD.l
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I’m just a guy born to poor parents (mother Catholic, father agnostic) that both died before their time and the second of 5 children. I’m the last practicing Catholic of my family. I was lucky enough to be schooled by the Sisters of Providence (K-8) and to be able to work my way through a Catholic High School. This, I found, was a detriment to qualify for an IL State Grant for college, as the grant is given on the basis of need. People in “need” don’t go to private high schools, I found out! (...regardless of the fact that I had to work two part time jobs to pay for school and my father had a brain tumor and my mother became an alcoholic as a result of his tumor). I managed to work my way through a junior college (night school) to get an associates degree in electronic technology. The two year degree only took 8 years to procure. My personality is somewhat dominant though patient. I love playing Santa Claus at Christmas and I love Comic Books, audio books (sci-fi), Drawing (comic book style), and Drones! …and though I’m rarely inspired by the homilies, I do love going to Mass! I don’t believe in either Creationism or Evolution but in Intelligent design (God’s really, really, smart)! I believe in a multi-dimensional universe that was designed and created by God as a self managing environment (think God of Laws vs. Free Will)! …and I’m rabidly Pro Life! …and I’m Pro Constitution! I view it as a non-living document in a traditional manner (words have meaning)!
I’m self employed as a Satellite Broadcast Transmitter Technician. By the Grace of God, I am one of (if not) the best transmitter technician(s) on the planet! I have spent over 30 years assisting Mother Angelica and EWTN with their broadcast transmissions on a volunteer basis (for the most part) in addition to my regular work. I love to teach and have spent several years as a catechist at my parish until they decided that teaching “Christianity” was more important than teaching “Catholicism.” I tend to be very conservative in both Religion and Politics. I rarely mince words! I enjoy when Jehovahs’ Witnesses or Mormons come knocking at my door! When we’re done, they have enjoyed it less than I and it thrills me to plant a seed of doubt in their minds (and souls), primarily in the basis of their belief system! While they are trying to convert me to protestantism, I am trying to convert them to Catholicism using their own bible and religious documents!!! Not many folks keep at least half a dozen bibles on their phone including a complete and current Catechism of the Catholic Church! I’m almost never what they are expecting! My wife calls me a “zealot!” …an
