"Save the fetus -- so we can remain silent when you torture it years later!"
Is this the motto of conservative Catholic bishops?
Oh, yes, good Catholics, our Bishops are outraged -- OUTRAGED, I tells ya' -- about a President whose personal beliefs on abortion happen to coincide with the law of land. Oh, and our fine men of the cloth are furious -- RABID, let me tell ya' -- that Obama's stem-cell policy favors helping sick human beings over frozen blobs of cells.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/...
http://www.lifesitenews.com/...
But, strangely, we hear nothing -- not a peep -- from these bishops about the revelation of torture by the Bush administration.
Oh yes, Bishops, you jus' LUVSES you some microscopic cellular blobs -- so much so that you're willing to spout politics from the pulpit. From condemning John Kerry, to asserting that no true Catholic could vote for Kerry or Obama, even to objecting to Obama being invited to speak at Notre Dame's commencement, you have never failed to attack Democrats for supposedly being "anti-life."
Yet, now, when it is readily apparent that your beloved right-wing, "pro-life" GOP leadership authorized, approved, designed, directed, and pushed the torture and murder of persons in their custody -- all in an ongoing attempt to gin up fake evidence for an immoral war -- your silence is deafening. As a Notre Dame grad myself, I anxiously await your public condemnation of Bush, Cheney, and all those who enabled them.
[crickets chirping]
Um, er . . . um . . . you ARE planning on condemning them publicly, are you not?
Where are the defenders of the "Culture of Life" now?
Yes, Bishops, I'm talking to you -- you know who you are:
- Bishop John D'Arcy - Fort Wayne-South Bend, IN
- Bishop Samuel Aquila - Fargo, ND
- Bishop Gregory Aymond - Austin, TX
- Bishop Gerald Barbarito - Palm Beach, FL
- Bishop Leonard Blair - Toledo, OH
- Archbishop Daniel Buechlein - Indianapolis, IN
- Bishop Robert Baker - Birmingham, AL
- Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz - Lincoln, NE
- Archbishop Eusebius Beltran - Oklahoma City, OK
- Auxiliary Bishop Oscar Cantú - San Antonio, TX
- Bishop Paul Coakley - Salina, KS
- Cardinal Daniel DiNardo - Houston, TX
- Archbishop Timothy Dolan - New York, NY
- Bishop Thomas Doran - Rockford, IL
- Auxiliary Bishop John Dougherty - Scranton, PA
- Bishop Robert Finn - Kansas City-St. Joseph, MO
- Cardinal Francis George - Chicago, IL; President, USCCB
- Bishop Gerald Gettelfinger - Evansville, IN
- Archbishop José Gomez - San Antonio, TX
- Bishop William Higi - Lafayette, IN
- Archbishop Alfred Hughs - New Orleans, LA
- Bishop Joseph Latino - Jackson, MS
- Bishop Jerome Listecki - La Crosse, WI
- Bishop William E. Lori - Bridgeport, CT
- Bishop George Lucas - Springfield, IL
- Bishop Robert Lynch - St. Petersburg, FL
- Bishop Joseph Martino - Scranton, PA
- Bishop Charles Morlino - Madison, WI
- Bishop George Murry - Youngstown, OH
- Archbishop John J. Myers - Newark, NJ
- Bishop R. Walker Nickless - Sioux City, IA
- Archbishop John C. Nienstedt - St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN
- Archbishop Edwin O'Brien - Baltimore, MD
- Bishop Thomas Olmsted - Phoenix, AZ
- Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk - Cincinnati, OH
- Bishop Kevin Rhoades - Harrisburg, PA
- Bishop Alexander Sample - Marquette, MI
- Bishop Edward J. Slattery - Tulsa, OK
- Bishop Richard Stika - Knoxville, TN
- Bishop Anthony Taylor - Little Rock, AR
- Bishop Robert Vasa - Baker, OR
- Bishop Thomas Wenski - Orlando, FL
So, c'mon, O Forty-Two Defenders of Life, where are you now? You so bravely stood up for your "principles" and objected to the -- gasp -- horror of Obama speaking at Notre Dame's commencement, yet we have not heard a single public word from any of you about the systematic torture program implemented by his predecessor. (Now, granted, the Bushies weren't torturing fetuses, but you'll pardon my confusion at your reticence on this matter.)
Oh, believe me, I understand that you're busy. Why, with knowingly shuttling pedophiles around from parish to parish and country to country, busily fighting off lawsuits from your parishoners, trying to keep your diocese from going bankrupt, and no doubt scheming over your next acts of buggery with the parish altar boys, you must have very little free time left.
Yet, still, Padres, color me a bit confused. Riddle me this, Friar Tuck: In response to the mere invitation by Notre Dame to have Obama speak at its commencement, you somehow found the time to publicly express your claim that
"Catholic institutions of higher learning must always be places where the Catholic values we hold so dearly will always be supported and promoted - not where the culture of death is allowed to be honored or valued. Let us pray for those who work so hard to keep our Catholic institutions truly Catholic in all they do to promote the gospel of life."
You further managed to find time in your busy schedules to publicly urge all good Catholics to
expose the culture of death and build up the Culture of Life.
Between dodging lawsuits and aiding and abetting sexual predators, you somehow managed to squeeze in public statements asserting that
"If the president of Notre Dame University truly wishes to show that his institution is rooted in Catholic teaching and tradition and committed to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, he must underscore this message at commencement plainly and clearly, and invite everyone to embrace an immutable and all-inclusive reverence for life."
Oh, yes, Good Bishops, I'm sure we were all moved by your stirring condemnation of the "scandal" caused by Notre Dame
"in these vital moral matters."
But smack my behind and call me Father Timmy, Good Bishops, 'cause I don't seem to be able to locate any public statements by you proud Defenders of the True Faith now that the extent of the Bush Administration's direct role in the torture and murder of prisoners has come to light.
So, a question for all 42 of you, before your moral outrage in defense of life subsides: What does the "Culture of Life" think of systematic torture and murder of bound prisoners? Or does the "Culture of Life" begin -- and end - with the fetus? I anxiously await your public pronouncements condemning the Bush/Cheney administration . . . but somehow, I don't think I'll hold my breath.