New York City, N.Y., Jan 13, 2021 / 01:49 pm (CNA).- Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York has explained why Catholics are not ashamed of being ‘hung up’ on abortion, especially in the context of the upcoming Biden administration, in a Wednesday column.
Recalling a conversation with a politician who asked him, “why are you Catholics so hung up about abortion,” the Archbishop of New York explained in a Jan. 13 column at Catholic New York that “actually, we’re obsessed with the dignity of the human person and the sacredness of all human life! Yes, the innocent, helpless life of the baby in the womb, but also the life of the death row prisoner, the immigrant, the fragile elderly, the poor and the sick.”
“As a matter of fact,” Cardinal Dolan says, “this is not a uniquely ‘Catholic’ issue at all, but one of human rights. We didn’t learn that abortion was horrible in religion class, but in biology, and in our courses on the ‘inalienable rights’ tradition in American history.”
“How can we sustain a culture that recoils at violence, exclusion, suicide, racism, injustice, and callousness toward those in need, if we applaud, allow, pay for, and promote the destruction of the most helpless, the baby in the womb?”
Cardinal Dolan also writes that “pro-abortionists reassured us forty-eight years ago” that abortion would be kept safe, legal, and rare. “So much for the reassurances! We have hardly gotten used to it. Abortion remains the hottest issue in our politics, with polls showing that most Americans want restrictions on its unquestioned use, and do not want their taxes to pay for it.”
“We’re even more ‘hung up’ now, as our new president, whom we wish well, and who speaks with admirable sensitivity about protecting the rights of the weakest and most threatened, ran on a platform avidly supporting this gruesome capital punishment for innocent pre-born babies.”
“We’re all still cringing from the disturbing violence last week in Washington. This upheaval was made the more nauseating as it was seemingly encouraged by the one sworn to uphold the Constitution and the rule of law, and because it trashed the very edifice designed to be a sanctuary of safety, reason, civility, and decorum,” the Cardinal added.
He finally praised President-elect Joe Biden for “reminding us that the rampage we saw was not America,” and concluded by asking if we can hope “that violence will subside,” and that “the sacredness of all life and the dignity of the human person will be revived, and that the sanctuary of the womb will be off-limits to violent invasion.”
[Note: The headline of this news brief has been edited on January 14, 2020, by CWR to more accurately convey the content of the story.]
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What load of BS…..he praises the baby killers and he condemns baby killing
Cdn Dolan deserves everything he gets.
“This upheaval was made the more nauseating as it was seemingly encouraged by the one sworn to uphold the Constitution and the rule of law, and because it trashed the very edifice designed to be a sanctuary of safety, reason, civility, and decorum,” the Cardinal added.”
Read the transcript or watch the speech. President Trump did not encourage violence; he specifically called for peaceful and patriotic protest.
Those pro-abortion politicians, who have spent the last seven months or so refraining from condemning, or actively praising, the rioters who have been destroying pubic and private property, killing people, bullying and terrorizing, have no standing to complain about the actions of those who rioted at the Capitol. I do, because I have condemned rioting all along. The aforementioned politicians, safe in the womb of the Capitol building, were suddenly shocked to realize that, like all the peasants whose suffering at the hands of rioters they have dismissed with a wave of the hand, they, too, are vulnerable.
“Our new president, whom we wish well and who speaks with admirable sensitivity
(excuse me while I go outside and ralph)
about protecting the rights of the weakest and most most threatened ran on a platform avidly supporting this gruesome capital punishment for innocent pre-born babies.”
It’s called – HYPOCRISY
We – the gum chewing public – figured it out decades ago, and we have been waiting for you and your ilk to figure it out for yourself and then summon the stones to call it what it is.
We’re still waiting, but more and more of us are giving up every day.
BTW – Nice hat.