COLORADO SPRINGS October 8, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Michael J. Sheridan of the Catholic diocese of Colorado Springs has again written on the near impossibility of finding a legitimate reason to vote for a pro-abortion politician.
In a column in today’s edition of the diocesan newspaper, Sheridan writes that it is “virtually inconceivable” that an evil greater than abortion could exist that would justify voting for a politician who supports it. He says that even the elimination of poverty, an issue often compared to abortion as being proportionate, cannot justify “the direct murder of just one human being.”
The misunderstanding of a single line in a letter by Cardinal Ratzinger mentioning ‘proportionate reasons’ for supporting pro-abortion candidates has caused frustration among pro-lifers and Catholics in the US. Some ‘liberal Catholic’ writers and bishops have used it as an escape clause to support politicians who, in addition to their support for abortion also espouse left-leaning economic policies.
Bishop Sheridan has been among the most outspoken critics of the ‘liberal’ view that a pro-abortion candidate can be supported by employing what one diocesan official called, “mental gymnastics.” Ph