I have mentioned before that, as a Protestant, I am highly impressed by the stand being made within the Catholic church concerning it's stand for life. The former post concerned bishops and their collective stand against the Freedom of Choice Act. Now comes word of a priest in South Carolina who has gotten his diocese backing his stand.
The provocative letter from the Rev. Jay Scott Newman to members of St. Mary’s Catholic Church has sparked some controversy and yet another conversation about faith and public policy.
“Voting for a
pro-abortion politician when a plausible pro-life alternative exists
constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil,” Newman said in
the letter posted on the Greenville church’s Web site, www.stmarysgvl.org,
“and those Catholics who do so place themselves outside of the full
communion of Christ’s Church and under the judgment of divine law.”
Newman said that those who did not choose the anti-abortion
candidate, in this case U.S. Sen. John McCain, “should not receive Holy
Communion until and unless they are reconciled to God in the Sacrament
of Penance, lest they eat and drink their own condemnation.”
Calling Obama “the most radical pro-abortion politician ever to serve in the United States Senate,” Newman went on to say Catholics must pray for the newly elected chief executive.
I stay impressed, considering that the church is taking a Biblical stand in spite of catering to it's more liberal members. Comments like this may very likely drive people away from the pews. But they are attempting to be true to their Savior's teachings.
Bravo.
(HT: Ed Morrissey at Hotair.com)
-Colonel Steve
Recent Comments