Priests ordered to read criticism

[trotsky]

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/national_world/2012/11/01/priests-ordered-to-read-criticism.html

CHICAGO — Joining the chorus of Roman Catholic clergy in Illinois criticizing President Barack Obama before next week’s election, Peoria Bishop Daniel Jenky ordered priests to read a letter to parishioners on Sunday, explaining that politicians who support abortion rights also reject Jesus.

“By virtue of your vow of obedience to me as your Bishop, I require that this letter be personally read by each celebrating priest at each Weekend Mass,” Jenky wrote in a letter circulated to clergy in the Catholic Diocese of Peoria.

In the letter, Jenky cautions parishioners that Obama and a majority of U.S. senators will not reconsider the mandate that would require employers, including religious groups, to provide free birth-control coverage in their health-care plans.“This assault upon our religious freedom is simply without precedent in the American political and legal system,” Jenky wrote.

...

“Again, I am not telling you which party or which candidates to vote for or against,” he said. “ But I am saying that you need to think and pray very carefully about your vote, because a vote for a candidate who promotes actions or behaviors that are intrinsically evil and gravely sinful makes you morally complicit and places the eternal salvation of your own soul in serious jeopardy.”

He's not telling you how to vote, he's just telling you that you're going to hell if you vote for Democrats. See the distinction?

And to think there are Democrats who still give their time and money to this horrific institution.

[Goblinmonger]

1. Oh, but the Bishop doesn't really have any power.

for the witless.

[redwitch]

2. Parishoners will get up and walk out.

A lot of Catholics plan to vote for the President and they know it isn't a sin. The bishop is a fool.

[trotsky]

3. But the thing is, they don't.

They'll sit there and put money in the collection plate, like they always have. Telling themselves that these men they give money to aren't "really" the church and that they'll fix the church from within. And nothing changes.

[skepticscott]

16. Hey, they're trying to

make that change happen from within...

[southernyankeebelle]

4. They know it. People are sick and tired of churches getting involved in politics. We

want them to get back to the basics and stay out of the bedrooms.

[Marrah_G]

18. You would think they would

But most will not. They will continue to attend and to donate money despite disagreeing with the priest.

[Squinch]

5. TAX the hellish bastards!

Tax them! They are political entities.

[MineralMan]

6. Ducky. Just Ducky.

Some guy with a funny hat who has sworn not to have sex with anyone, telling large number of peoples how to make their reproductive choices.

Yes, indeed, this Bishop is missing the innate contradiction here.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Full text here. The man's an asshole.

http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/peoria-bishop-orders-catholics-polls

He says that voting for a pro-choice politician is morally equivalent to being one of the crowd who wanted Jesus dead. And you'll go to hell for it.

Note that the "Again, I am not telling you which party or which candidates to vote for or against" came from another bishop who did at least say "There are many positive and beneficial planks in the Democratic Party Platform" as well as damn it for being pro-choice. This one is not saying anything positive about Democrats. He's whining about 'religious liberty', and lying (a grave sin, itself) when he says HHS requires Catholic institutions to fund abortion.

[rug]

8. There are many ways to deal with this.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12211221

Don't let it get in the way of your reflexive bashing.

[rrneck]

9. I don't (usually) just reflexively bash religion.

But this guy deserves an ass chewing behind this.

[rug]

10. Jenky absolutely does.

So does this:

"And to think there are Democrats who still give their time and money to this horrific institution."

[rrneck]

11. I agree with that sentiment.

I've got no use for the RCC. Its quite beyond me why anybody would support it. But I respect those that do if they do so for the right reasons.

[cleanhippie]

14. I don't always just reflexively bash religion....

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But when I do...



I do it on DU!

[rug]

15. Hot link!

[cleanhippie]

17. I really don't know what that means.

I posted that pic just like I posted every other pick I've posted.

[dimbear]

12. Military services have a vow of obedience also, but the difference is that in the military

there are certain specific orders so evil that you don't have to obey them.

[Angry Dragon]

13. I find it interesting that priests are suppose to obey bishops over their god

it sounds like a cult decree