On Voting and Making Excuses for the Republican Party

Last updated on: July 26, 2007 at 3:58 pm By voxnovablog

This is a response to Alexham’s post criticizing me for arguing that Catholics can indeed vote for pro-abortion politicians. My main problem is that he does not provide any sound theological basis for saying that Catholics cannot vote for pro-abortion Democrats, beyond a personal judgment that absolutely nothing else qualifies as a “proportionate reason”. This is without foundation, and unsupported by the weight of Catholic moral philosophy. Let me start with the “non-negotiables”. To accept the validity of this position,... Read more

On Fred Thompson and making excuses for the Democratic Party

Last updated on: July 26, 2007 at 1:12 pm By voxnovablog

In a post below, Morning’s Minion equates Fred Thompson’s lobbying efforts to help “rescind a rule prohibiting abortion counseling at federally funded clinics” to “a nameless Democratic politician supported rescinding the aforementioned rule in the legislature,” and then asks: “Is there much difference between this person and Thompson on these moral grounds?” MM thinks not, but I respectfully disagree. First, let’s examine the facts. Fred Thompson did the lobbying work in question in the early 1990s. But since that time,... Read more

Chris Hedges at Adbusters

Last updated on: July 26, 2007 at 3:05 am By Iafrate Michael

I have not gotten around to reading Chris Hedges’ most recent book American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America (Free Press, 2007). I think maybe I’m afraid his new book will be less-than-inspiring, following the whole slew of books about the Christian Right that essentially assert that religion is inherently violent, and thus, the Christian Right is the worst manifestation of this fact. (Some books about the Christian Right buck this trend and are quite good, like... Read more

Did Fred Thompson Formally Cooperate in Evil?

Last updated on: July 25, 2007 at 10:46 pm By voxnovablog

I’ve been meaning to discuss this for a while now, and Mirror of Justice beat me to it! The issue pertains to Thompson’s pro-abortion lobbying for the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association. His was hired to help “rescind a rule prohibiting abortion counseling at federally funded clinics”. Let’s think about this. Formal cooperation in evil mean that a person “freely participates in the action(s) of a principal agent, or shares in the agent’s intention, either for its own... Read more

Dormition of St Anne: The Mother of the Mother of God

Last updated on: July 25, 2007 at 8:29 pm By Henry Karlson

“But he said to them, ‘My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it’” (Lk 8:21). “Brothers, have no fear of men’s sin. Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on earth. Love all God’s creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. Love the animals, love the plants, love... Read more

Honduran Congress demands apology from Chavez to Archbishop

Last updated on: July 25, 2007 at 4:12 pm By voxnovablog

I thought this was very interesting… we don’t see this in America at all. This is what happens in a country with Catholic roots: Following insults from Hugo Chávez directed to the Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez, of being “an imperialist clown,” the Congress of Honduras is asking the president of that nation to demand an apology from Chávez. The motion was passed last night by a sweeping majority of 128 votes with only four abstentions from the leftist... Read more

National Right to Life Committee is Clueless on Medicare

Last updated on: July 25, 2007 at 3:33 pm By voxnovablog

I’m a big fan of a broad concept of the culture of life, the “seamless garment”, emanating from Gaudium Et Spes (#27). It’s far too easy to oppose abortion and give the thumbs up to unjust war, and vice versa. The pro-life movement in America has always focused on abortion, and indeed, was born in the wake of the Roe v. Wade decision. This is perfectly justifiable. I don’t even have a problem with the right to life movement dealing... Read more

Quote of the Week

Last updated on: July 24, 2007 at 11:13 pm By voxnovablog

It moves one’s heart to think:Nine months before I was bornthere was a woman who loved me deeply.She did not know what I was going to be like,but she loved me because she carried me in her womb.And when she gave me birth,she took me in her arms,because her love was not just beginning–she conceived it along with me. A mother loves–and that is why abortion is so abhorrent:a mother who aborts is unfaithful to the lovethat she should have(like... Read more

When is Euthanasia Not Euthanasia?

Last updated on: July 24, 2007 at 9:35 pm By Morning's Minion

Euthanasia, defined as “an action or omission which of itself and by intention causes death, with the purpose of eliminating all suffering” (Evangelium Vitae, #64) is objectively evil and indeed, opposing it is a core component of the culture of life. It is listed on par with murder, genocide, and abortion in Gaudium Et Spes and Pope John Paul declared it to be “a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing... Read more