RIP: Russell Shaw (updated)
No votes for people who are ok with slaughtering human infants or who think it's ok to mutilate kids' gonads. No votes for people who pretend that supporting monogamous heterosexual marriage is a hate crime.
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Being faithful to the teachings of Jesus' Church in the public sphere will not enhance your popularity. On the "morning after" election day, there seem to have been significant losses for morality! How could this be, when we have so many professed Catholics among us? What is not understood?
- No votes for people who are ok with slaughtering human infants or who think it's ok to mutilate kids' gonads.
- No votes for people who pretend that supporting monogamous heterosexual marriage is a hate crime.
Belief in the sanctity of each human life from its first moment of fertilization to its natural end is under assault.
Belief in the sanctity of marriage / family / human sexuality is under assault.
Why are these positions not better advocated among practicing Catholics? I believe that it is largely owing to
negligence at the pulpit,
negligence from our bishops, and
negligence from the USCCB and state Catholic conferences,
We can and we must stand up for the sanctity of each human life from its first moment of fertilization to its natural end. We can and we must stand up for the sanctity of marriage / family / human sexuality!
Responding as Catholic Christians in defense of the Sanctity of Human Life and the Sanctity of Marriage/ Family/ Human Sexuality - in the U.S. & particularly in New Jersey & Pennsylvania.
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About the Author
Joe Tevington is a proudly orthodox Catholic, a husband since 1986, a dad to two adult children, a grandpa to two, and a civil service retiree. He is a sign language fluent certified rehabilitation counselor with graduate degrees in deafness rehabilitation, religious studies/moral theology, & Christian counseling psychology, as well as a catechetical diploma and certificates in benefits planning and Catholic social ministry. He deeply appreciates Catholic teaching on the sanctity of human life and the sanctity of the transmission of human life, as well as how they are to inform us in our apostolates and ministries.
On much lighter notes, he fancies himself to be the foremost authority on his native Brooklyn, when it comes to architecture, cinema, geography, history, Italian food, stick ball, stoop ball, or wiffle ball.
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