Buchanan on Kerry
Re: Your Eminence, What's There to Study?
Patrick J. Buchanan, in the above article, clearly describes the moral absurdity of Sen. John Kerry's latest comments on abortion:
Mr. Buchanan offers the rhetorical question that serves as a title for his article in response to U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops doing nothing more than appointing "a seven-member task force to study what the sanction should be for Catholic politicians who vote to fund abortions and vote against judges who believe the unborn have a right to life."
Mr. Buchanan contrasts our current bishops lack of firm resolve on the abortion issue with the reaction of bishops of the past to a different issue, segregation:
[And yet, the popular conception of Mr. Buchanan remains that he is a racist.]
Re: Your Eminence, What's There to Study?
Patrick J. Buchanan, in the above article, clearly describes the moral absurdity of Sen. John Kerry's latest comments on abortion:
"'I oppose abortion personally. ... I believe life does begin at conception.' So said John Kerry last week in Iowa.
"Remarkable. If Kerry believes life begins at conception, he must concede that each time he has voted to fund abortions, he has voted to fund the killing of human beings. And voting to uphold Clinton's veto of the partial-birth abortion ban, Kerry voted against sparing tiny human beings from an excruciating form of execution."
Mr. Buchanan offers the rhetorical question that serves as a title for his article in response to U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops doing nothing more than appointing "a seven-member task force to study what the sanction should be for Catholic politicians who vote to fund abortions and vote against judges who believe the unborn have a right to life."
Mr. Buchanan contrasts our current bishops lack of firm resolve on the abortion issue with the reaction of bishops of the past to a different issue, segregation:
"Catholicism used to produce a different kind of prelate. In 1953, Archbishop Joseph Rummel of New Orleans issued a pastoral letter: '(L)et there be no further discrimination or segregation in the pews, at the Communion rail, at the confessional and in parish meetings, just as there will be no segregation in the kingdom of heaven.'
"Resistance to integration of the parochial schools was fierce. The battle went on for a decade. Catholics appealed to the Vatican. Pius XII backed up the archbishop. In the Louisiana Legislature, bills were introduced forbidding integration of the Catholic schools, bills supported by Catholic legislators. The archbishop's response was to threaten the Catholic lawmakers with excommunication.
"When the rabid segregationist Leander Perez of Plaquemine Parish persisted, Archbishop Rummel excommunicated him and the head of the Citizens Council of Louisiana for "continuing to provoke the devoted people of this venerable archdiocese to disobedience or rebellion in the matter of opening our schools to all Catholic children."
"Now, there was an archbishop."
[And yet, the popular conception of Mr. Buchanan remains that he is a racist.]
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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