Sunday, October 28, 2012
A WISCONSIN CATHOLIC BISHOP DECLARES DEMOCRATS SUPPORT INTRINSIC EVIL............
In a letter sent to Catholics in the Diocese of Green Bay Wisconsin Bishop David Ricken has declared to the Faithful that they risk eternal damnation if they vote for the Democratic Party in the Presidential General Election on November 6th. Calling support for Abortion, Euthanasia, Stem Cell Research, Human Cloning, and Homosexual Marriage, "intrinsically evil", in his letter dated October 24th, Bishop Ricken warned Green Bay Catholics that voting for such a political party or candidate may threaten their eternal salvation. Bishop Ricken specifically wrote in the letter, "Some candidates and one party have even chosen some of these as their party's or their personal platform. To vote for someone in favor of these positions means you could be morally "complicit" with these choices which are intrinsically evil. This could put your own soul in jeopardy". Use of the words, "one party", clearly suggests Bishop Ricken is referring to the Democratic Party. However, there is no inclusion in Bishop Ricken's letter to the failure of the Republican Party's adoption of the Ryan Budget and its adverse affect on American society and is in opposition to Social Teaching of the Catholic Church, and which the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has criticized as contrary to Gospel Values. Neither does it reflect any criticism of a Presidential nominee whose position on Abortion has shifted multiple times, including during this 2012 election campaign. Bishop Ricken is the second American Catholic Bishop in two months to issue a similar statement. Bishop Thomas John Paprocki, of the Diocese of Springfield Illinois in September, claimed Democrats are in favor of, "intrinsic evils", and that supporters of the Democratic Party put their eternal salvation in jeopardy............tdp
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As you say.....(quote) no inclusion in Bishop Ricken's letter to the failure of the Republican Party's adoption of the Ryan Budget and its adverse affect on American society and is in opposition to Social Teaching of the Catholic Church.... Indeed, so very true....the very ministry of Jesus centered on concern, compassion, and proactive care for the poor, homeless, hungry, sick.
HOW STUNNING IT IS THAT IN THIS PRESENT POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS CLIMATE OF 2012, ANY CHURCH LEADER, NAMELY A BISHOP WOULD ENUNCIATE WHAT CLEARLY APPEARS TO BE A SLANTED PARTISAN POINT OF VIEW, TO THE EXCLUSION OF THE SOCIAL JUSTICE TEACHING OF JESUS AND THE GOSPEL, TWO WEEKS BEFORE A NATIONAL ELECTION. WITH CATHOLIC VOTERS FOUND TO BE TOO CLOSE TO CALL, THE RICKEN / PAPROCKI LETTERS INDICATE A MAJOR POLARIZING AFFECT IS TAKING PLACE AMONG CATHOLICS AND THE HIERARCHY.
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