Comments on: Pope and President http://the-american-catholic.com/2009/07/10/pope-and-president/ Politics and Culture from a Catholic perspective. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:18:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Matt McDonald http://the-american-catholic.com/2009/07/10/pope-and-president/#comment-3308 Matt McDonald Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:46:21 +0000 http://the-american-catholic.com/?p=10642#comment-3308 e. <i>pro-choice platform or remain remarkably lukewarm to issues of life due to the typical “personally against it but do not want to impose personal beliefs on others” spiel.</i> I think that's the definition of pro-choice. Really there is just pro-life and pro-abortion, the "pro-choice" moniker is intellectually dishonest as is any claim to being "personally opposed". e.

pro-choice platform or remain remarkably lukewarm to issues of life due to the typical “personally against it but do not want to impose personal beliefs on others” spiel.

I think that’s the definition of pro-choice. Really there is just pro-life and pro-abortion, the “pro-choice” moniker is intellectually dishonest as is any claim to being “personally opposed”.

]]> By: e. http://the-american-catholic.com/2009/07/10/pope-and-president/#comment-3307 e. Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:57:12 +0000 http://the-american-catholic.com/?p=10642#comment-3307 Perhaps prayers should also be said on behalf of those purportedly Catholic, as well, who in spite of being knowledgeable about such things still continue to choose to promote the prevalently pernicious Pro-choice platform or remain remarkably lukewarm to issues of life due to the typical "personally against it but do not want to impose personal beliefs on others" spiel. Perhaps prayers should also be said on behalf of those purportedly Catholic, as well, who in spite of being knowledgeable about such things still continue to choose to promote the prevalently pernicious Pro-choice platform or remain remarkably lukewarm to issues of life due to the typical “personally against it but do not want to impose personal beliefs on others” spiel.

]]> By: Steve http://the-american-catholic.com/2009/07/10/pope-and-president/#comment-3306 Steve Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:18:15 +0000 http://the-american-catholic.com/?p=10642#comment-3306 I had dinner with a woman last night. Three years ago she was a radical feminist marxist. She told me she was living a lifestyle steeped in forms of depravity that we would not believe. She had previously worked in an abortion clinic and said she had a deep hatred for pro-lifers and the Church. On the verge of suicide, she turned to the Bible. Deciding that Evangelical Christianity was not for her, she asked a friend to tell her where she could go to Mass. Her conversion was swift and immediate. She entered the Church and has been a committed Catholic since. She was almost reluctant to discuss her conversion because she felt so unworthy of the grace and mercy she received after a life of sin. I tell this story because I often become cynical of the ability of prayer to lead to radical Paul-like conversion. Yet this woman told a story I had heard before--but only in the biographies of saints. Let us keep the president in prayer. I had dinner with a woman last night. Three years ago she was a radical feminist marxist. She told me she was living a lifestyle steeped in forms of depravity that we would not believe. She had previously worked in an abortion clinic and said she had a deep hatred for pro-lifers and the Church.

On the verge of suicide, she turned to the Bible. Deciding that Evangelical Christianity was not for her, she asked a friend to tell her where she could go to Mass. Her conversion was swift and immediate. She entered the Church and has been a committed Catholic since. She was almost reluctant to discuss her conversion because she felt so unworthy of the grace and mercy she received after a life of sin.

I tell this story because I often become cynical of the ability of prayer to lead to radical Paul-like conversion. Yet this woman told a story I had heard before–but only in the biographies of saints. Let us keep the president in prayer.

]]> By: Donald R. McClarey http://the-american-catholic.com/2009/07/10/pope-and-president/#comment-3305 Donald R. McClarey Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:05:17 +0000 http://the-american-catholic.com/?p=10642#comment-3305 I join you in that prayer Eric. Grace has fallen on more unlikely fields than President Obama. I join you in that prayer Eric. Grace has fallen on more unlikely fields than President Obama.

]]> By: Eric Brown http://the-american-catholic.com/2009/07/10/pope-and-president/#comment-3304 Eric Brown Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:59:43 +0000 http://the-american-catholic.com/?p=10642#comment-3304 I pray that the President reads the document on bioethics and it plants a seed, not just to break his commitment to the pro-choice movement and false-scientific research. But -- in his search for a church -- that he may hear his call to the Church. I know cynicism, perhaps, even human experience tells us that it is improbable. But my own conversion itself was just that, a seemingly infinite impossibility. I pray the same for the President. I wish him the best. I pray that the President reads the document on bioethics and it plants a seed, not just to break his commitment to the pro-choice movement and false-scientific research. But — in his search for a church — that he may hear his call to the Church.

I know cynicism, perhaps, even human experience tells us that it is improbable. But my own conversion itself was just that, a seemingly infinite impossibility. I pray the same for the President. I wish him the best.

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