*What does it mean to be a Catholic?

Bishop Tobin to Congressman Patrick Kennedy: ‘What does it mean to be a Catholic?’
by Deacon Keith Fournier
Catholic Online
Among those Catholics in public life who openly defy the clear teaching of the Catholic Church concerning the inviolable dignity of every human life from conception to natural death is Representative Patrick Kennedy. The son of the [...]

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*Bishop Wenski: “We Catholics have become too complacent about the legal killing of unborn children in America and elsewhere.”

Excerpt from Bishop Wenski’s sermon at a Mass of Reparation for the sins and transgressions committed against the dignity and sacredness of human life in our world today.
We live in a nation where abortion laws are among the most liberal among the Western democracies. We Catholics have become too complacent about the legal killing of unborn children in [...]

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*Cardinal Rigali Urges Support for ‘Pregnant Women Support Act’

[TFS Ed: Click here to contact your elected officials to voice your support.]
by Deacon Keith Fournier
The Pregnant Women Support Act reaches out to women with a helping hand when they are most vulnerable.
Catholic Online
In the encyclical letter “The Gospel of Life”, the Servant of God John Paul II not only set forth [...]

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*Warriors for the Victory of Life

Most Reverend Robert W. Finn 
Bishop of the Diocese of Kansas City ~ St. Joseph

Keynote Address for the 2009 Gospel of Life Convention
Continue reading here.

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*Those who profess to love God, but back abortion, are liars

By Bishop Robert Vasa
 The Mass readings for the week between Epiphany and the Baptism of the Lord are taken from the First Letter of St. John. These readings are not always used for it often happens, depending upon the day on which Christmas falls, that the season of ordinary time begins immediately after the celebration [...]

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*Bishops of Kansas: Moral Principles for Catholic Voters

+ Joseph F. Naumann, Archbishop of Kansas City in Kansas
+ Ronald M. Gilmore, Bishop of Dodge City
+ Paul S. Coakley, Bishop of Salina
+ Michael O. Jackels, Bishop of Wichita
Moral Principles for Catholic Voters
Excerpts:

We, the Catholic Bishops of Kansas, exercising our role as teachers, offer the following guidelines to help Catholics form their consciences on matters [...]

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*Bishop Malooly of Wilmington corrects Biden on Church teachings on abortion AGAIN

Most Rev. W. Francis Malooly, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington, responds to statements made by Sen. Joseph Biden published in the October 19, 2008 edition of the News Journal.
Bishop Malooly:
In his interview with the News Journal published on October 19, 2008, Senator Biden presents a seriously erroneous picture of Catholic teaching on abortion. [...]

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*Deacon Keith Fournier: Senator Biden, Prop 8, Marriage and the New ‘Know Nothings’

By Deacon Keith A Fournier, Esq.
10/27/2008
Catholic Online
To all of our fellow Catholics, other Christians, and all people of faith and good will who value true marriage and the family founded upon it -and live in California- VOTE YES on Proposition 8!
The “Know-Nothing Party” was rooted in the anti-Catholic bigotry which flourished in America between 1852 [...]

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*Cardinal Egan: Just Look

The picture on this page is an untouched photograph of a being that has been within its mother for 20 weeks. Please do me the favor of looking at it carefully.
Have you any doubt that it is a human being?
If you do not have any such doubt, have you any doubt that it is an [...]

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*God thunders: “THIS IS A CHILD!”

Cardinal Justin Rigali: Faithful Citizenship — Respect for Life
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At this moment in our country’s history, defense of innocent human life is a moral responsibility for all of us. The same God who thundered from Mount Sinai: “Thou shalt not kill,” thunders still. When life in the womb is destroyed, God thunders: “This is a child!” [...]

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*Bishop Hermann: Let us call God’s mercy down upon us as a nation

The following is the text of a homily that Bishop Hermann preached at the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis on September 28, 2008, the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Today’s readings are not only about the call to be obedient to God’s will, but also about God sharing with us the power to be obedient to [...]

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*Bishop Galante: Faithful Citizenship is living in a way worthy of the Gospel

As Catholics, then, we do not weigh a wide range of issues against abortion and euthanasia and consider whether they cumulatively outweigh the intrinsic evil of taking an innocent life, since this intrinsic evil never can be justified… our concern for the dignity of the human person already born is rendered moot if we do [...]

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*Bishop Hermann: Judgment Day is on its way

October 10, 2008
Judgment Day for us is on its way. Those 47 million children our nation destroyed are still living. We have destroyed their bodies, but their souls are still alive. When our Lord comes again, they may very well be there to judge us. Even worse, Jesus tells us that whatever we do to [...]

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*Bishop Finn: Can a Catholic Vote in Support of Abortion?

Bishop Finn:
Can a Catholic vote, in good conscience, for a candidate who supports abortion? This is the question I am asked over and over again.

The recent Pastoral Letter, Our Moral Responsibility as Catholic Citizens, which I co-wrote with Archbishop Joseph Naumann of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas, attempts to give guidance on this [...]

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*Bishop Serratelli: A Politician’s Promise: No Right to Life! No Freedom!

Bishop Serratelli:
“When a ruler can decide against God’s law, true freedom is sentenced to death.”
“Recently, a politician made a promise. Politicians usually do. If this politician fulfills his promise, not only will many of our freedoms as Americans be taken from us, but the innocent and vulnerable will spill their blood.”
“Along with 108 members of Congress, the [...]

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