Oct14 Written by:MarginPressAdmin
10/14/2008 12:01 PM
The object of today’s rant are “Catholics” who support abortion, particularly those who hold public office. The position is really quite simple: the Church has always taught that it is murder to terminate an unborn child, finished. The magical moment when life begins is conception, finished. Ending a life prematurely and outside one of the few and very narrow exceptions (self defence for instance) is murder, finished.
You’d think that would settle the matter but you’d be very wrong. Some politicians of a certain strain seem to have very little difficulty reconciling their approval of the killing of an unborn with their supposed Catholic beliefs. Sometimes they’ll try and interpret a Church Doctor to justify why they think the way they do or twist the little bit of what they remember from catechism as a raw justification. Either way, their motivation is to appear Catholic to the electorate while being in sync with what their party expects of them and what they anticipate the electorate will appreciate.
Semantics and the mauling of the meaning of English words play a big part of it (‘what they really meant is...’), along with a big dose of moral relativism (‘things are different now of course’). Here’s a list of basic terms that might come in handy when identifying the sorts who sprout this drivel, occasionally one or more or all of the terms can apply:
• A heretic - someone who believes they have a better understanding of Church teaching than that of the universal as it has come down through the ages and deliberately states what conflicts with what the Church has always said (‘my interpretation of Saint Augustine is that…’)
• A proto-protestant – someone who believes that they have a personal relationship with God that gives some little boost of understanding apparently lacking in Catholic teaching (‘in my own private reflection and prayer, I’ve come to accept that…’)
• A fraud – someone who can reconcile their very anti-Catholic stance with their supposed Catholic identity when that identity is necessary for them to achieve something
• A wimp – someone who holds that though abortion might be wrong, it’s far too late to do anything about it and we might as well tolerate its continued practice.
The next question is why is this even tolerated? Why is there even an issue over whether the heretics, proto-protestants, frauds and wimps should be allowed to receive communion? That’s a whole topic for another post..
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