Bishop Vasa denounces Catholic pro-abortion Senators as heretics.Washington -- After a more contentious confirmation hearing than that to which Chief Justice John Roberts was subjected five months ago, Judge Samuel Alito Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr. (born April 1, 1950) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Educated at Princeton University and Yale Law School, Alito served as a United States attorney and a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit was sworn in as a Justice of the Supreme Court on January 31, 2006. The choice of President Bush to replace retiring Sandra Day O'Connor Sandra Day O'Connor (born March 26 1930) is an American jurist who served as the first female Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006. She was considered a strict constructionist. , Alito, a Catholic, was confirmed by a Senate vote of 58-42. Votes were cast basically along party lines with the Democrats mostly opposing the President's choice President's Choice (or "PC") is the private label brand of Loblaw Companies Limited, the largest food retailer in Canada. The PC brand includes a wide variety of food, drinks and consumer products, and services, such as President's Choice Financial services. . Catholic Senators Edward Kennedy, Joe Biden This article is about the United States Senator from Delaware, for other uses of the name, see Biden. Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, Delaware. , Patrick Leahy, Richard Durbin Richard Joseph "Dick" Durbin, (born November 21 1944) is currently the senior United States Senator from Illinois and Democratic Whip, the second highest position in the party leadership in the Senate. , Chris Dodd and half a dozen others attacked the appointment with all their might trying to make the candidate's views on abortion a litmus test litmus test n. A test for chemical acidity or basicity using litmus paper. for rejection. They failed in their attempt but succeeded in demonstrating once again how far away these Catholics have moved from their faith. Kennedy and Durbin even stooped to smear tactics. Nominally Catholic and Jewish cliques have steered the Democratic party into an ideological corner where faithful Catholics do not wish to go. While the larger part of the American hierarchy stands idly by--a few of them even defying the Church on homosexualism--the more faithful Catholics are voting with their feet, away from the Democrats as well as from "progressive" bishops and priests. On February 21, 2006, Bishop Robert Vasa of the Oregon diocese of Baker joined them. As a dozen other bishops have also done, he published a letter in his diocesan paper identifying the so-called "pro-choice" position among Catholics as "heresy." The word needs to be applied with care, he said, "but we do need strong words to combat erroneous and fallacious teaching." Those Catholics who hold the "pro-choice position," he wrote, "reject the clear and consistent teaching of the Church." This rejection is heresy, as defined in the Church's canon law canon law, in the Roman Catholic Church, the body of law based on the legislation of the councils (both ecumenical and local) and the popes, as well as the bishops (for diocesan matters). : www.sentinel.org/articles/2006-7/14481.html (LifeSiteNews.com, Feb. 21, 2006). On Feb. 27, 55 Catholic House Democrats issued a "Statement of Principles" declaring themselves pro-abortion. Seventeen refused to sign. The 55 signatories and their statement is available on LifeSiteNews.com. |
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