Friday, January 21, 2005

'Pro-Choice Catholic Politicians' to Be Sued for Heresy

From the Cybercase News Service. Not since Pope Innocent III laid interdicts on some of the kingdoms of Europe has the Catholic Church reared up to defend its core principles from secular challenge. The church could blame no one for thinking it a paper tiger, especially since so many politicians try to parlay their Catholic affiliation into Catholic votes--"Vote for me because I am a fellow Catholic!"--while pouring contempt on Church teachings.

Now I won't defend all of the teachings of the Catholic Church--especially that one about transsubstantiation of the consecrated bread and wine in the Catholic Mass. But on grounds that go a lot deeper than Catholic tradition, I agree with them on the central issue: Abortion is murder. This is why those canon lawyers are bringing Catholic politicians to church courts and holding them to answer for continuing to promulgate abortion. (And don't let them fool you about their use of the word choice. Sure, they're all for choice--so long as the choice you make is to kill your baby.)

The Vatican, at last report, hasn't commented--though the head of the advocacy group De Fide (Latin for Of the Faith) says that he has the opinion of an expert that the Vatican contacted, that his doctrinal lawsuits do have merit. Stay tuned, everyone....