The good bishop speaks for himself and quite well!
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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.
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This quotation from the bishop's statement is ominous: this measure "will require every Catholic in the United States to violate his or her Christian conscience and support abortion, abortion-inducing drugs, unnatural chemical contraception, and direct sterilization.”
Obviously this can't be so, since the Catholic Sebelius issued this rule, and it's supported by Catholics such as Pelosi et al.; since Catholic couples use the Pill for birth control in numbers comparable to the general population (with widespread clerical acquiescence/enabling); and since Catholic women have abortions in numbers comparable to the general population.
The only way this can be a correct statement is if we don't consider these people Catholic. That's actually correct, since to be Catholic (authoritative citation, please Marc?) means to be baptized and to practice the Catholic Faith. I have no problem adopting that view, but many, many people in the pews are going to feel as if the bishop is dissing them with his statement. Prepare for protests against the bishops, exodus of so-Called Catholics, and corresponding drops in Church revenues. (Even the latter is acceptable to me, but I doubt that the bishops will feel the same.)
This is where the ignominious accommodation of 1968 had led us.
Huzzah for Bishop Slattery, once again proving that he knows how to Lead!!
As for the Catholic pretenders in the pews:
"...proclaim it..through my host, That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made
And crowns for convoy put into his purse:
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us."
This is the third Henry V quotation I've seen on this blog in the past week. I compliment Templar on his taste. :-)
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