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RE: The Coming “War” Between the Obama Administration and the Catholic Church
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/nov/08111908.html
Dear editor,
I just read this article and it is very disturbing to me because the outcome of this election was unquestionably in the hands of the Catholic voters. And the Catholic voters’ voting decisions were in the hands of their educators – our priests, pastors, bishops, cardinals, and other religious throughout the USA.
Back in January I sent a desperate email to the Vatican begging them to advise all USA clergy that it is their duty and obligation as our religious leaders of the Catholic Church to educate Catholics in the USA on their voting obligations to vote pro-life. I never heard a reply back but that did not matter to me; I was hoping that the seriousness of the voting issue in the USA had been addressed behind the scenes.
Over the summer and early fall I realized this had not been the case at all and an alarming number of Catholics were considering voting for the pro-choice candidate.
Priests and all Catholic Church leaders’ primary obligation is to educate their members regarding their moral obligation as Catholics to vote for the candidate who is pro life. Throughout this past 9 months, they not only did not educate Catholics on their moral obligation to vote for the pro-life candidate, but even worse, they presented the voting decision to Catholics as open to individual desires and needs.
Catholics were not repeatedly told by their leaders that no other issue is more important than the 45 million abortions a year! Many religious leaders and influential members of religious orders voted for the pro-choice candidate because other issues were more important to them than the issue of life. In the final days leading up to the elections, it was clear that approximately 60% of all Catholics were voting for the pro-choice candidate.
Personally, I am shocked and sad to the point where no words can describe. How can we, the ones who weekly and, sometimes daily, receive the living Body and Blood of our Savior, Jesus Christ, vote for a candidate who is pro-choice, for someone who clearly has no compassion for the most vulnerable in the world – the unborn? How can many of our Catholic Church leaders not recognize the profound importance of the abortion issue and not instruct their members?
Now, the Catholic Church is in an uproar over what Obama will do regarding abortion, and yet they did very little in the days leading up to the elections. I just hope and pray that over the next four years our leaders make radical “changes in educating Catholic voters” on their moral obligation to vote pro-life. If they fulfill this primary obligation on their part, in four years Obama or any other pro-choice candidate will not be re-elected – neither on the national nor on the local levels.
God have Mercy on our country. I have pity on all the proud “pro-choice” Catholic voters who think they have “won” in this election. For in their next life, they will be face to face with their Creator and the “choice” of their eternal life will be in His hands. Voting for a pro-choice candidate is, in essence, condoning abortion. Abortion is the greatest evil in our world today.
Thank you for your time.
B Maria Szele
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