Catholic bishops write Obama on abortion

I wonder where these bishops were when thousands of little boys and girls were being raped by Catholic priests. Surely, abortion needs to be curbed for every reason that one can imagine, but I hardly think that Catholic bishops are the ones to preach morality to the rest of the country given their inability to take care of the little ones who made it to their congregations. These immoral and criminal acts by priests and the ignorance of them by their bishops were reprehensible, and as a former Catholic, one who looked up to the Catholic hierarchy for my entire childhood, their words will never be anything more than empty rhetoric for me. Go away and bring your false morality with you.

and this is exactly why there's a seperation of church and state. We govern on facts and information, not beliefs and idiologies.

Religion is from the heart, and not someone telling me how to and when to prey. Tell the church to get is own house in order, before it gets its nose into my business or anybody's else business. I congratulate the church on the charity work it does, but they fail to realize that times have changed. That stem cell research offers a lot of hope to folks with terminal illnesses.

As for abortion, well when you see a 12 year pregnant, and you know she is not prepared to have a child mentally or physically, and to make matters worse the father of that child could be her brother, her father a uncle or rapist, is it right for her to have that child?Or to live or visit a 3rd world country to see the poverty a family lives in, do they need another mouth to feed?When you see 4 year old's digging in garbage for food is that right? As they say "we are dealing with multiplication, when we can't ourselves yet? and yes I have head the arguments, that the aborted fetus could grow up and be the next president, but that argument does not fly with me.

It's unfortunate that the Catholic executives did not also address that Federal law still allows execution as a punishment; nor did they address conditions in prisons or the work of helping individuals whose lives put them in a destructive direction to transform to be loving parents, trusted leaders and good friends. But then the actions of the current class of Catholic clergy shows that power is their first concern. These so-called leaders prefer propaganda over facts, pontification over getting their hands dirty, and still act in grossly un-Christ like ways in their hostility toward women and gays, whether through discrimination or by practicing a veiled campaign of hate against of gay people. If the Catholic leadership were to begin emulating the average Catholic individual, whether male or female , gay and straight, the people who do the real work of Jesus, then they would be less concerned with using hot button issues to advance their duplicitous self-serving agenda and instead would become part of the salve to the world's hurt, rather than continuing to be perpetrators of the world's hurt.

PLEASE American citizens - we believe in the intrinsic value of each and every human being. We believe that murder is against our American law, and in some states worthy of capital punishment -- how then can we NOT believe that abortion is murder? A doctor let's you see the fetus inside the womb, listen to the heart beat -- that is something living. Let us hope that our newly elected president will make every effort to protect all people, those outside the womb and those inside it as well.

The bishops are right about abortion of course but wrong in writing to the President. He doesn't owe them a thing. He certainly doesn't owe them any respect. They did all they could to elect Reagan and the two Bushes and they did all they could to defeat Obama. As a daily Mass Catholic I have to say I was very glad to see them humiliated when a majority of Catholics voted for Obama.

Thank God there are leaders and people in this country who remain steadfast on overturning the most violent abuse of human rights - the aborted human baby. It is outrageous that so many people spend so much time on other "issues" and at the same time, demand that human life can be destroyed at will. What a bunch of hypocrites. 50 Million since Roe. Where is the outcry for these defenseless, innocent humans? Abortion should be banned and charged as murder. It is legalized murder. And for all of you who will say "what about rape and incest'? Red Herring, because these people who claim this would NEVER agree to an abortion ban except for rape and incest. God help us.

God Bless Cardinal George, a principled and courageous man, and the Bishops who think and act like him - Cardinal O'Malley of the Boston Archdiocese comes to mind. I sure wish we had myriads more.

O"Leary - your vengence is not very Catholic, Mr. Daily Mass Catholic. Think about what you said as you receive the Eucharist next time. Of course, you are very right about their position on abortion.

Voting for Obama is as scandalous as it gets.

andy - you reduced the argument to economics just as the Nazis did to the Jews. How soon we forget. Perpetrators of the world's hurt? Seems to me that award goes to Planned Parenthood. Abortion probably hurts alot - especially, partial birth abortion.

Let us not forget that Mr. O comes from the stereotypical family that abortion is a part of life. If his mom had followed what Mr. O preaches, he would not be here.

To: James E. O'Leary

You are hostile to your own faith? You delighted in a radical abortion supporter winning the White House because..?. The teaching of the Church is the teaching of Jesus Christ...therefore, you delighted in God being told to "stay out of our business"? Please read the Gospel of Life. Or better yet visit:
obamamustsee.com
You'll never forget what you see. And you would never delight in such a thing.
You Cannot Be Catholic and Support Abortion. Your views have me wondering....why do you go to Mass daily if you are not going to believe the teachings of the Truth...Jesus himself. These are not man made teachings. If you truly relished what happened, then you are in need of repentence or you are seperating yourself from the body of Christ.

Let me let Father Corapi provide the proper view here:

"We have passed the threshold into one of the most important weeks in American history, and a convergence of three very important celebrations reminds us of it. Monday we celebrate the remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King, who worked so heroically and tirelessly to insure that all men and women might share in the American dream equally. Tuesday we celebrate the inauguration of the first African American president, Barack Obama. That an African American can be so elected is indeed a cause to celebrate. However, thursday we pray and do penance on the anniversary of the most infamous court decision in United States history, Roe v. Wade. All three are related.
Dr. King fought long and hard and suffered many things that all men and women in the United States of America might enjoy those truths that we hold to be self evident: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. He was an American hero for so doing. This week we should rightly celebrate the fact that an African American can be and has been elected President of the United States. This is surely progress, both political and moral.
This all being said, it has to plague the conscience of any thinking person that in this country there is yet the most immoral and deadly form of prejudice and persecution imaginable against the most innocent and vulnerable class of human beings—the unwanted unborn. No matter what advances this country makes, moral, economic, social, or technological, so long as that blight on our national identity remains, all else will ultimately pale into relative insignificance.
God is not a disinterested spectator in the affairs of man. He knows every child by name from all eternity. He loves each one with His infinite love. God’s holy Catholic Church teaches that abortion in a single case is homicide. I assert that if this is the case, and it is, then the 50,000,000 homicides through abortion that have taken place in the United States since Roe v. Wade constitute genocide. God will not favor such a country, regardless of any other progress. Unless this outrage against God and humanity is stopped very soon, the United States of America, and in turn all of the Western world, will realize the death wish that it has manifest for several decades.
Every Catholic, Christian, Jew, and all people of good will and right reason must pray and do penance rigorously and daily from now on for the defeat of this heinous evil we call abortion. If we fail, then Western society as we know it will soon collide with a disaster it will not survive.
May God have mercy on us."

Fr. John Corapi

This is the teaching of your Church...it is not negotiable. It comes from our Savior.
Is God Pro Life or Pro Choice?....You already know the answer. Please refrain from bashing those that have given their lives to confect the Eucharist. They are trying to lead us to Salvation and closer to God. To do that...we must live God's Eternal Truth through the Church's teachings.

Obama made abortion his priority by promising Planned Parenthood that he would make sure that the first thing he did was pass FOCA. He also vowed to strike every abortion restriction from the books. Even partial birht abortion where the baby is born and the skull crushed then the brain is suctioned out. This is Choice?

God Have Mercy on Us!

God Bless!

I love to read the comments of those who think that people of faith, such as the Bishops, have no right to engage in public discourse. They say things such as, "we don't make laws based in dogma" and the like. What they fail to realize is that the Bishops are citizens just like any other and they have a right to voice their considered opinion, they also preach the truth and the truth is true no matter what and abortion is wrong whether you believe it to be or not, because it is killing a baby. It is worse than death penalty, it is worse because the life is not innocent in the death penalty.but it is in the case of the unborn CHILD. As to the sexual abuse crisis in the Church I think all involved admit and know that mistakes were made, however, far more children are abused by family members or teachers and coaches than by priests...it's not even close. To use the sexual abuse scandal as a hammer every time one disagrees with something they hear in church or from a bishop is childish at best, and, moronic at worst it is not an intellectually honest argument. One wonders how long the Catholic Church must suffer the slings and arrows of a few bad apples while many priests and bishops have done the work of Christ in good faith with no credit at all. I hope the Bishops will continue to teach the truth and not be afraid of the morons and half wits who would try to undermine the Church and all the good it does.

I don't like abortion, but I am thankful to live in a country where access to safe abortion facilities with medical professionals is available. Legislating against abortion won't stop it, it will just result in more dead women.

People can talk about their faith all they want. I'm talking about reality.

More dead woman, yes, bizona, about 5Million this year alone, assuming 1/2 of the aborted babies are female.

It is laughable.
These clowns in red beannies are against extending the statue of limitations in clergy child rape cases but want to deny women rights.
George, Egan, McCormack, etc should be imprisoned for being accessories to child rape.
They all supported Bush and tried to defeat Obama.
They have about as much moral crediibility as Enron executives.

I applaud our priests and bishops who encourage us to live with in the natural law which is also God’s law. Abortion is certainly contrary to God’s commandments as well as the natural law. It is unnatural for a mother to kill a child in her womb just as it is unnatural for adults to sexually abuse children. It does not happen in nature and we obviously need a voice to tell us that it should not happen in human nature.

Jesus' last commandment was to love one another. Compassion for others will bring our nation together, not demanding rights and personal freedom. Bishops and Presidents do not legislate or enforce compassion. Some must learn to sacrifice their happiness and dreams for those who cannot access happiness and dreams. Then we can talk about life and choice. With compassion these arguments will go away and maybe we can return to "reasonable person" justice without requiring a definition for a "reasonable person."

Well, I’m pro-life in all circumstances outside of rape. However, I find the International Gag Law to be silly. How can we fund abortions here in America but then tell foreign facilities that if they do the same we’re going to cut off funding? Don’t get me wrong, we can put whatever conditions we want on our own tax-paying dollars. I just find it silly that we’re out there trying to stop other people from doing the same thing we do on a daily basis.

This being said, most abortion supporters actually support abortion on religious ideologies of their own. There is absolutely no scientific evidence that life does not begin until live birth. Actually, there is no genetic, biological, neurological, or physiological difference between a 32 week old fetus and a new born baby. Blackmun, who wrote the majority opinion for Roe v. Wade, argued that life does not begin until live birth. He defended this by saying, and this is a quote, “That’s what the Stoics believed.”

We legalized abortion based on a belief held in 300 BCE?

You guys are all so sarcastic and pathetic when you go "its funny when bishops say this about abortion when child rape is going on" well u know what look to pretty much every organization in history man.. think about it you could say that same argument for the US government and be like "oh its soooo funny that america is all about the land of the free when in the first place in order to take this country we had to enslave and murder thousands even millions of native Americans" like... really? Did these bishops ever say they were perfect? or? what? you could say the same thing to a chief of the NYPD when they were busted on corruption charges...it doest make a difference because the fact is that the Police are to control the bad and the Church is for the faithful...there are bad priests in the church...yes...as there are bad cops in the police and bad officials in the government...? so what? since there are some bad priests youre gonna be a bigot and say the Whole church is bad? Totally hypocritical.