Meanwhile, San Francisco archbishop compares pro-choice advocates to Southern segregationists

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/05/our-duty-challenge-catholic-politicians-who-support-abortion-rights/

Opinion: Our duty to challenge Catholic politicians who support abortion rights
Opinion by Salvatore J. Cordileone
September 5, 2021 at 3:36 p.m. EDT

Salvatore J. Cordileone is the Catholic archbishop of San Francisco.

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As a faith leader in the Catholic community, I find it especially disturbing that so many of the politicians on the wrong side of the preeminent human rights issue of our time are self-professed Catholics. This is a perennial challenge for bishops in the United States: This summer, we provoked an uproar by discussing whether public officials who support abortion should receive the sacrament of the Eucharist. We were accused of inappropriately injecting religion into politics, of butting in where we didn’t belong.

I see matters differently. When considering what duties Catholic bishops have with respect to prominent laymen in public life who openly oppose church teachings on abortion, I look to this country’s last great human rights movement — still within my living memory — for inspiration on how we should respond.

The example of New Orleans Archbishop Joseph Rummel, who courageously confronted the evils of racism, is one that I especially admire. Rummel did not “stay in his lane.” Unlike several other bishops throughout this country’s history, he did not prioritize keeping parishioners and the public happy above advancing racial justice. Instead, he began a long, patient campaign of moral suasion to change the opinions of pro-segregation White Catholics.

(blah blah threat of excommunication)

Abortion is therefore the most pressing human rights challenge of our time. Can we pastors speak softly when the blood of 60 million innocent American children cries out for justice? When their mothers are condemned to silence, secretly suffering the injuries of the culture of “choice”?

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[msongs]

1. catholic church has a 2000 year public record of its own atrocities nt

[secondwind]

3. AMEN!!

[secondwind]

2. My WORD!

So now they are CHILDREN?

[SCantiGOP]

6. Doesn't sound a ridiculous as

calling a 6 week old fetus, which is the size of a grain of rice, a “pre-born child.”

[stillcool]

4. Mother.

[DinahMoeHum]

5. Fuck that idiot with a crucifix.

Odds are he's also a pedophile.

[CanonRay]

7. The Catholic church has no moral standing

to berate anyone.

[TreasonousBastard]

8. Not about to argue with the theology (not because it is reasonable, but...

because arguing is fruitless) but I would argue that abortion is NOT the most pressing human rights challenge of our time.

[alwaysinasnit]

9. People who live in glass houses should not be throwing stones.