Removing invincible ignorance . . .

I have a problem with the world's view of life today. And I have a real problem with people who say they are Catholic but separate their Faith from reality when they vote. Were you one of the Catholics that helped our present president get his place in the White House? Did you vote for him knowing that he was pro-death and would enact and support future legislation that would promote, encourage and allow the wholesale slaughter of unborn infants.? Did you know he was in favor of using our tax dollars for contraception costs?

You may claim invincible ignorance at this point, but now you know! How will you vote in the upcoming election?

As Catholics, it seems to me that we have to be one issue voters when it deals with the survival of the unborn. According to the Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, "You shall not kill an unborn child or murder a newborn infant." Your vote could, in essence, help women procure abortions. According to Canon Law, "Those who procure an abortion . . . automatically incur an excommunication." Knowing this, can you still vote the pro-death ticket? Knowing this, do you feel any remorse for the Catholic vote you may have cast that aided and abetted the murder of babies?

Some people take it as a matter of pride to vote a single party line. If there was a person running, regardless of party, who was terrible at everything political yet staunchly pro-life, that is where my vote would go - without a second thought. Murder is spoken against quite strongly in the Ten Commandments. St. Basil stated that, "A woman who deliberately destroys a fetus is answerable for murder." So? Are you going to vote for comfort, convenience, low taxes, social security, and fair wages or are you going to preserve the sanctity of life with your vote? Sorry . . . with this I have just removed your claim to invincible ignorance.

"In the domain of morality, is it not an accepted principle of our Western bourgeois world that there is no absolute distinction between right and wrong rooted in the eternal order of God, but that they are relative and dependent entirely upon one's point of view? Hence when the Western world wishes to decide what is right and wrong even in certain moral matters, it takes a poll-forgetful that the majority never makes a thing right. The first poll of public opinion taken in history of Christianity was on Pilate's front porch, and it was wrong." Fulton J. Sheen