Reactions to Bishop Doran's Column...

Bishop Thomas Doran's column, with some excerpts posted here, has generated numerous comments - most of them, it seems, are favorable. But as we know, when one is confronted with the truth, one may not like it...

F. Patrick LaSalle, a Rock­ford Catholic and member of Voice of the Faithful, a group organized to speak out against sexual abuse by the clergy, said he disagrees with Doran’s effort “to classify an entire political party.”

A majority of Americans, LaSalle added, “feels more comfortable in the party they believe protects the disadvantaged, supports minorities, the elderly and the young, fosters equal rights for all, protests unjust wars and represents the thinking of middle-class America.”

Thankfully, the Holy Father did not see it wise to appoint LaSalle as bishop. We can ask, though, what party does has a better record of "protectong the elderly and the young", of "fostering equal rights for all"? The party of death - whose support for unlimited abortion knows no bounds - even that of supporting the murder of a nearly delivered baby; whose support and advocacy of the homosexual agenda is helping to destroy the family as the main unit of society?

Toni Murray of Roscoe, an advocate of abortion rights, disagreed with Doran’s condemnation of “therapeutic abortion.” Murray said that term refers to “abortion required to save the mother, or if there are devastating problems with the fetus. In that case, it is up to those involved, not the government nor the church.”

Toni Murray fails to understand that laws of society are to be a reflection of the natural moral law, of the laws of God. The deliberate killing of the innocent unborn, regardless of the reason, is demonically evil and Bishop Doran speaks the truth, that same truth which the Church has affirmed for two millenia. Only those whose consciences are not properly formed could disagree with Bishop Doran's comments.