{"id":249831,"date":"2021-07-29T12:48:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T17:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=249831"},"modified":"2021-07-28T17:16:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T22:16:26","slug":"catholic-bishops-hypocrites-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/catholic-bishops-hypocrites-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"No, Catholic bishops are not being &#8216;hypocrites&#8217; in denying Communion to pro-abortion politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a Sunday Letter to the Editor published at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/letters\/2021\/07\/the-hypocrisy-of-catholic-bishops-condemning-bidens-abortion-stance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cleveland.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, retired nurse <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Martin Langlois<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> attempted to expose the \u201chypocrisy\u201d of Catholic bishops for condemning President Biden\u2019s rejection of the Church\u2019s pro-life teachings. No such hypocrisy exists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last month, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/18\/us\/targeting-biden-catholic-bishops-advance-controversial-communion-plan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Catholic Bishops of the United States<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> voted to draft a statement regarding whether Biden and other pro-abortion politicians could be denied Holy Communion. The bishops\u2019 proposal is hardly unusual, as the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-lawmakers-bishops-debate-communion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Catholic faith<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> regards abortion as a mortal sin. And pro-abortion politicians like <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/biden-harris-administration-impacted-pro-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Biden<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are knowingly acting in defiance of Church doctrine by championing abortion-friendly policies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Still, the bishops\u2019 actions prompted Langlois to label them \u201crighteous condemners,\u201d on par with the \u201chypocrites\u201d denounced by Christ and his apostles (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew%2023&amp;version=NRSV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Matthew 23:13-15<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Mark%207%3A6&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mark 7:6<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the arguments Langlois charges the Church with show a tragic misunderstanding of the pro-life position and those who hold such views.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Catholicism and abortion<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Langlois argues that should the bishops deny Communion to Biden, they must also deny Communion to &#8220;the 55% of U.S. Catholics who tell pollsters abortion should be legal in most or all cases in defiance of their bishops\u2019 abortion teachings.&#8221; He said these Catholics &#8220;must join our president in the trail to Gehenna.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gehenna<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a historical location in the Bible where children were sacrificed to the Ammonite God Moloch; the 55% statistic that Langlois references comes from a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2021\/05\/06\/about-six-in-ten-americans-say-abortion-should-be-legal-in-all-or-most-cases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pew Research Center<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> poll published last May.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It appears he is challenging the bishops to refuse Communion to all pro-abortion Catholics to avoid being hypocritical.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But a single statistic does not necessarily reflect the depth of people\u2019s perspectives, especially when it comes to a heavy issue like abortion.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-lawmakers-bishops-debate-communion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">66%<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of Catholics who frequently attend Mass do <em>not<\/em> support legalized abortion, suggesting their adherence to the Church\u2019s pro-life stance stems from education about their faith and regular practice of it.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet Langlois points to the data from Pew almost as if it were a source of authority on the issue; he seems to think it proves most Catholics are pro-abortion. But this argument cuts both ways. If he were confronted with statistics that showed a majority of Catholics are pro-life, would Langlois shift his stance to reflect the views of the majority?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/archbishop-cordileone-pelosi-pro-abortion-devout-catholic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Archbishop Cordileone hits back at Pelosi: If you\u2019re pro-abortion, you\u2019re not a \u2018devout Catholic\u2019<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even if the research Langlois cited truly reflected the views of a majority of Catholics, abortion would <em>still be a mortal sin<\/em>. Pointing to a supposedly large group of people who support abortion reveals nothing about whether abortion is an act of moral good or evil.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/downloads.frc.org\/EF\/EF19A13.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Science<\/a> proves the preborn are distinct, living, and whole human beings, while philosophy confirms all human beings are entitled to equal protection from violence and the equal right to life. Location, size, level of development, and other arbitrary traits do not revoke the preborn human being&#8217;s membership within the human family. Human beings are entitled to rights based on what they are and not on the capacities they may or may not have.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both religious and secular points of view support the idea that abortion involves the direct killing of an innocent human without proper justification.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Catholic Church\u2019s pro-life views perfectly account for basic human equality in a way the pro-abortion position cannot, but regardless, Langlois assigned bad motives to the Church\u2019s pro-life authority figures. But in reality, the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bishops would not have to refuse Communion to a majority of Catholics for them to remain consistently pro-life and free of hypocrisy. The difference between pro-abortion politicians and everyday abortion supporters in the pews is that politicians are <em>actively working to promote and expand abortion<\/em> and show no remorse in doing so. They are misleading fellow Catholics. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The bishops can see this. However, they can&#8217;t look out into a church congregation and pick out who is pro-abortion or know how individuals vote. They don&#8217;t know if a person has been to Confession and been absolved of the sin of abortion. But so-called Catholic politicians who boast about supporting and expanding abortion are loudly proclaiming their sin and are proud of it. Catholics who are aware of committing a mortal sin should not present themselves for Communion. The document from the bishops will hopefully educate <em>all<\/em> Catholics on the mortal sin of abortion and the sin of receiving Communion while in a state of mortal sin without having received the sacrament of Confession.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Personal attacks prove nothing<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Langlois questioned whether pro-life bishops feel the same indignation toward racism, abuse in the Church, and other issues as they do about abortion. In addition, he appeared to mockingly inquire if these Christians also devoted their \u201chard-earned savings&#8230; to the health and high-quality rearing of every unaborted baby[.]\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The presence of other evils in the world does not offer justification for abortion, a practice that has resulted in the deaths of over <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/scam-big-lies-false-promises-roe-wade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">60 million preborn children<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0in the U.S. since 1973. Arguments that fall along the line of, \u201cIf you were really pro-life, you would\u2026\u201d are typically intended to expose the supposed hypocrisy of the pro-life worldview, but there is nothing inconsistent about refusing to condone abortion while also rallying against other injustices.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, there is something inconsistent in arguing that the pro-life Catholic Church must do more to care for those in need when the argument\u2019s premise appears to imply that the preborn child\u2019s neediness is a reason for abortion. It&#8217;s not. There is no justifiable reason to kill an innocent preborn child. The Catholic Church is arguably the world&#8217;s largest charitable organization, and abortion is one of the world&#8217;s greatest injustices. It makes sense that the Catholic Church would therefore stand against abortion. No injustice must be solved as a prerequisite to ending other injustices.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nothing in the tenets of Christianity suggests that Christians should accept the dehumanization of vulnerable human beings through abortion. Rather, preborn human beings should all be accepted as members of the human family. Catholics must set an example for religious and non-religious people alike by ascribing to universal values of human dignity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Sunday Letter to the Editor published at Cleveland.com, retired nurse Martin Langlois attempted to expose the \u201chypocrisy\u201d of Catholic bishops for condemning President Biden\u2019s rejection of the Church\u2019s pro-life teachings. No such hypocrisy exists. Last month, the Catholic Bishops of the United States voted to draft a statement regarding whether Biden and other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":617,"featured_media":249926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[10065,386,10075,11468,10076,11465,74,11466,7646,11464,10159,11467],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>No, Catholic bishops are not being &#039;hypocrites&#039; in denying Communion to pro-abortion politicians<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A recent Letter to the Editor attempted to call out Catholic bishops for their supposed hypocrisy in possibly denying Communion to pro-abortion politicians.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/catholic-bishops-hypocrites-abortion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No, Catholic bishops are not being &#039;hypocrites&#039; 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