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- Fr. Allan J. McDonald
- I am the youngest son of a Canadian father and Italian mother. My father was from Judique, Cape Breton and my mother is from Livorno, Italy. After my father became a naturalized citizen of the USA he was drafted into the army and sent overseas for World War II. After the war, he married his war bride, Isolina Clara Sainati of Livorno, Italia on December 1, 1945. I was born in Napoli, Italia on December 21, 1953. We moved to Georgia when I was 3 years old. We lived in Atlanta from 1957 to 1960 and in Augusta. My mom is still in Augusta. I went to St. Mary Seminary in Baltimore. I was ordained a priest on June 7, 1980. I have served in St. Teresa Church, Albany (1980-85), Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Savannah (1985-91). I was pastor of the Church of the Most Holy Trinity in Augusta from June of 1991 to July of 2004. I am currently pastor of St. Joseph Church, Macon since 2004. I was the vocation director for the diocese from 1986 to 1998 and Diocesan Master of Ceremonies and Director of Liturgy from 1985 through 1991. I was vicar forane of the Augusta deanery from 1991 to 2000.
8 comments:
"Different world view"
Boy, I'll say. The libs don't get it, and never will. Unfortunately, I am afraid neither will the liberal Catholics in our parishes.
Ah, yes, Father Morris said it best: "This is about the reach of government."
What I heard in the video, though, was Fr. Martin.
I hate it when the lefties say, "70% of Catholic women use contraception." as if the Catholic doctrine is based on popular opinion.
Of course Catholics use Contraception. I did too, for years and years. Why?
NO ONE EVER TOLD ME NOT TO!!
How are Catholics supposed to know what they should do if CCD doesn't teach it, it's not picked up and expounded upon from the Pulpit, and the Pastor never puts anything about it in the Bulletin even? For decades Homilies consisted of: "God Loves You. Love him back. Love him by Loving Others. Thansk for coming and spending your time with Jesus for an hour."
Blech.
Exactly, Templar.
Read Msgr. Wrenn's books for a good treatment of what happened to catechetical instruction.
Notice how the lefty libs love to throw around useless statistics? If 60 percent of women decide that it is not good to have more than one child, will it be in the public good to limit families? If 60 percent of the population believes that handicapped or elderly people have no right to exist, will it be in the interest of the "majority" to support euthanasia? Welcome to Communist China and Nazi Germany, folks, both providers of big solutions based on the gods of statistics.
The propaganda of the left becomes more ridiculous with each talking head. All the whining about Catholic women needing access to contraception, how infantile. It was refreshing to hear Hannity and Fr. Morris clearly state the nature of this battle and for Fox to air the clip of Obama in Turkey when he clearly stated that we are no longer a nation under God---a chilling moment indeed.
One point that I don't hear anyone making, either on this blog or in the media, is that this isn't just about Catholics avoiding contraception/abortion/sterilization. It's also about not providing these things to others who are non-Catholic. The Natural law applies whether someone is Catholic or not. Thus, while we can't stop anyone from using these things, it is wrong under the objective natural law for us to provide it to anyone, Catholic or non-Catholic, Christian or non-Christian, theist or atheist.
This needs to be made clear to avoid the relativistic idea that birth control isn't just something that Catholics see as wrong. Rather, it objectively is wrong, and Catholics thus must have nothing to do with it.
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