Fr Pavone Chides Catholic Legislators...

...in response to their "Statement of Principles"

...Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, commented that the legislators had “made a big mistake” and introduced “a bundle of contradictions” into the public debate on faith and public service.

“This statement tries to soften the contradiction between creating a just society and tolerating legal abortion. The voting records of these legislators are available to anyone who wants to look them up. To fail to protect the unborn, and then to say that you are ‘committed to…protecting the most vulnerable among us’ is a blatant contradiction. Moreover, the statement invokes Pope John Paul II’s document Christifideles Laici. Yet that very document states, ‘Above all, the common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights -- for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture -- is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition for all other personal rights, is not defended with maximum determination,’” Fr. Pavone pointed out. [my emphasis]

More at Priests for Life here

We can only hope and pray that each bishop assumes his responsibility and obligation for correcting and teaching those legislators who are within his boundary of jurisdiction.

HT to Patte G for the report!