- Liberal and weak-hitting bishops have been propagators and enablers
- Soft pedaling, equivocating, corrupting and confusing
- Selling babies out for the pathetic goal of helping their socialist one-world-government friends
- ‘Shake down the thunder from the sky’? Cuomo–like father, like son; Notre Dame’s–Hesburgh/Jenkins like liberal father and son
Father “Ted” is still revered by Notre Dame supporters and alumni, and fans, conservative, libertarian, and liberal alike.
But I think few recall the former Notre Dame president’s pivotal role in giving every Catholic politician the ‘spiritual right’ to support abortion in all its ghastly forms. DLH
Article by William Dodd at American Thinker, (excerpt)
Abortion and the Catholic Surrender to Politics
“In 1984, Father Hesburgh invited Governor Mario Cuomo of New York to speak at Notre Dame on the difficulties that elected Catholic politicians have in reconciling the obligations of their faith regarding abortion with their obligations to their constituencies.
“On September 13, 1984, Cuomo delivered “Religious Belief and Public Morality: A Catholic Governor’s Perspective” at Notre Dame’s Washington Hall. Some saw the Cuomo speech as an orchestrated Hesburgh-Cuomo rebuttal to comments made by Archbishop John O’Connor, the new archbishop of New York and a staunch defender of unborn life. Earlier in 1984 O’Connor, on a televised news conference, had stated that he did not believe that a Catholic in good conscience could vote for a political candidate who approves of abortion. He further stated that he would not rule out excommunicating Governor Cuomo for his support of abortion rights.
“Cuomo’s speech at Notre Dame stifled the debate. It was a brilliant move, a well staged home run for the abortion cause. With delivery from the platform of one of the Church’s most influential universities and tacit approval by the renowned Father Hesburgh, the speech received extensive media coverage. “Father Ted” likely knew that it would be a watershed event, and it was. In effect, without Church authority, the speech “sanctioned” the Catholic body politic’s relaxation of its opposition to abortion.” . . .
The public response to the passage of the New York RHA from some quarters has been disgust, from others shock and surprise. Surprise? The seed for this horrendous legislation was sown decades ago. We know its lineage. Its grandfather’s name is Mario, and its father’s name is Andrew. It has uncles named John D., Theodore, Barack, and John I. and has countless cousins in the party of Democrats.
Public reception of the RHA has been less than favorable — so much so that the act itself may help bring an end to our country’s deviant reliance on abortion to solve social problems and to celebrations of its enabling laws. Like the laws passed following the Dred Scott decision doubling down on slavery, pro-abortion legislation of the past four decades may someday be found to be the worst ever written in our country’s history.
So has the abortion party now “jumped the shark” with outright advocacy of a right to kill babies even after birth? The grisly logic of what Roe v Wade and Doe V Bolton always entailed — ownership of another human being and the right to kill it for any reason as if it were property (Dred Scott) is maybe becoming more evident. Or can the abortion party continue to depend on obfuscation and indifference and cover-up by the media? We have seen no evidence they won’t be able to depend on their Democrat-first clergymen and bishops in the Roman Catholic Church led by Pope Francis. Think otherwise . . . then where is the outrage from the pulpits and diocesan organs of the Church?
