Posted by
RME KRNL on Tuesday, May 26, 2009 11:53:23 AM
I am not Catholic, nor do I claim to understand all things Catholic, but I have some sense of what the phrase "being a good Catholic" means.
And what that means to me, in the current political context, is that Obama, the most pro-abortion president we've ever had, should never have even been invited to speak at the recent commencement at Notre Dame, one of our most prestigious Catholic universities, much less receive an honorary doctorate degree.
And it is also incongruous to me that other politicians who claim to be Catholic, like Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, Teddy Kennedy, etc., etc., etc., should on the one hand support abortion but on the other hand expect to participate in Holy Communion.
Holy Communion, whether in Protestantism or Catholicism, is only for the "faithful" who believe in and try to practice the church's teachings. And the Catholic church teaches that life begins at conception and therefore that abortion is wrong, period.
I know that Pride is one of the deadly sins, and plenty of our politicians have that in abundance, but what about Hypocrisy? Well, it seems that they, and Notre Shame, have that in abundance too.