Catholic Post-Traumatic Election Syndrome, Part Deux

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This is a followup to this previous post from "Catholics" distressed that so many 'ignorant, white trash, fundamentalist zealots' and Catholics voted for Bush rather than the saintly AND "Catholic" John Kerry...

Sounds like a GREAT bumpersticker to me! HOW CAN 59 MILLION AMERICANS BE SOOOOOO STUPID?

Stop thinking about suicide or moving abroad. Want to feel better? Figure out what you can do to help rescue the country.

Kerry in 2008 !!

Kerry should have received 100% of the Catholic vote. It's pathetic [that he only got a bit over 50%].

To roughly paraphrase Joan Chittiser, I do not belie that God controls us like puppets. Bad thigns happen to good people, and Bush is an example of this. War crimes are not catholic, although historically they have occurred as a result of Church misguidance.

You know what? I talk to God as much as the next person and God told me He had nothing to do with bush being in office and furthermore, He didn't vote for him.

To his credit, though, our pastor didn't allow any "outside literature" (read: Catholic Answers), and did not preach the abortion-trumps-all gospel.

I tell them [college students] that their minds should be wide open at this point -- take in everything, sift it through ethical and moral filters, and take what is right for you. It seems to me that folks who are 18-22 risk their mental development
without this necessary "liberalism."

We MUST make the catholic bishops accountable for what they forced on their parishioners. If they want life we'll give them LIFE. Let's bring this to a head because it's make or break time. John Kerry is probably the most noble leader of our generation.

I am all for an uprising against the bishops, but what could that,in reality, accomplish?

I received a Voters Guide from Catholic Answers and I immediately threw it in
the trash. I received numerous letters from Priests For Life and other organizations.

When they [the Bishops] started preaching that it was a moral sin to vote for Kerry and that we could be ex-communicated and refused communion it was more than I could bear.

What the Catholic bishops did to their parishioners was spiritual rape. They used the full force of their moral voice to put fascists in control of America. We need to do 3 things I can think of right away. I repeat: What the bishops did was spiritual rape. What the bishops did was heresy. What the bishops did was evil. WE MUST BEAR WITNESS.

KEEP our copies of everything these fascist bishops distributed in their fight to get Bush elected. Write down our memories of the things they said, and what right wing priests have said.

Write the Vatican and protest what is essentially a heresy being foisted on the faithful; the lie, the outright lie, that only a few, politically selected issues matter and that all the rest of the gospels and CAtholic teaching are non sequitur in public debate.

These bishops are going to get a ton of faith-based money as a pay-off for selling out the gospel and violating their parishioners. We must begin--IMMEDIATELY--keeping track of this.

...it's been very difficult to convince people that I can be a good Catholic, very pro-life, and a Democrat voting for Kerry all at the same time. I've basically stopped going to the pro-life meetings because I'm sick of the club leadership attacking liberals and never questioning conservative leadership.

I have always been against scandal in the church, but they [the Bishops] have brought scandal into the church when they allowed the smoke in [the "non-negotiable" issues, those intrinsically evil acts such as abortion, homosexuality, etc]. As Catholics we need to clean the house of our Lord.

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What if we all voluntarily STOPPED TAKING COMMUNION? I read that this happened in the 50's, because people were so concerned about their own unworthiness, that the bishops finally had to practically order them to take the host again....Then again, I'm not entirely comfortable with stooping to their level and politicizing the host. But yes, we MUST HOLD THE BISHOPS ACCOUNTABLE!!!!!! Any ideas? WHERE ARE OUR LEADERS?The kingdom of God needs a church....

Let's not forget that one should NOT receive our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament if one is not properly disposed or in a state of mortal sin. An examination of conscience should be done daily. Those who intentionally promote or otherwise support the killing of innocent unborn children or provide support to further the homosexual agenda are objectively committing grave (mortal) sin and are admonished to refrain from committing sacrilege by receiving Holy Communion. One last note on this above coment: I find it very disturbing that people refer to the Body and Blood of our Lord as the 'host' in lower case or communion in lower case and without the modifying adjective "Holy". Likewise, the constant use of the common noun "church" in place of the proper noun "Church" demonstrates a lack of respect for the Church which Christ established.

Here is the guy who stole Ohio: Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell oversees the elections process and appoints the members of boards of elections in each of Ohio's 88 counties. Mr. Blackwell is a member of the national advisory boards of Youth for Christ…and was formerly a domestic policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C…

And as such, he single handedly "stole" the election from Kerry? Why? Because he is a Christian and worked for the Heritage Foundation...Pure calumny, slander...show us the proof! I can't respond to any of these people because I was booted from their less than 'inclusive' list, for daring to affirm that directly willed abortion is an intrinsic evil, regardless of circumstances...

But so help me God, if in the near future I hear anyone who voted for Bush say something like, why is he doing that or he's an idiot, or something like
that, I will explode.

Ka-Boom!!! (Sorry, I couldn't resist the temptation!)

As Catholics, perhaps at this time we can attempt to perform more spiritual (and corporal) works of mercy and explain and defend the faith in a manner which might be understood by those who are, at least receptive to the teachings of the Church.