Posted by
Tom G. on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 9:31:47 PM
For the first time in anyone's memory Catholic Bishops, Cardinals and Clergy came out to defend Catholic Doctrine, not against Obama but against Representative Pelosi. As proud as many of us are of the leadership of this Clergy to set the record straight, it was too little too late.
Catholics should know their doctrine better than they do,...this problem rests clearly on the poor managment of foundation training. The Catechism needs to be taugh, to lay-persons and to Clergy. We have failed to educate the Catholic Layity.
Who is to blame?
UCCB
The use of Catholic Schools to teach non-Catholics basics in education has led to a failed teaching paradigm. The Church in the United States has valued money over teaching Catholics. This has led to an elitism of Catholic Education, only those of great means can afford to send their children to Catholic Schools.
Understandably, the movement or shift from Nuns, Brothers as instructors to lay-persons has led to the de-emphasis of Catholic Foundational teaching and the need to raise more money to pay for the added costs...but at what expense?
The loss of a generation of Catholics who understand their faith.
So on November 4th 2008 was squarely on the Catholic Church in the United States.
The failure to bring in Latino American's into the schools to teach them thier faith had led to a lack of specific understanding of our doctrine. Certainly, immigration leap to the forfront of the minds of Latino voters who overwhelmingly supported and voted for Obama rather than that of LIFE issues.
Obama represents the most extreme candidate ever nominated to his party as candidate for President...what should have been an easy choice for Catholics was not...because of failure of the Clergy Class to reach the Masses.
While exit polls show 52% of White Catholics supported McCain, McCain lost the overall Catholic Vote by a margin of 54 to 45 in Obama's favor.
Understandably, the Cultural Catholic who is seldom found in the pews voted more favorably for Obama, it remains the failure of the Church to demonstrate what a Catholic is...
Unique to the Catholic Church is the 'Cultural' member, one who perhaps was born to Catholic parents, describes themselves as a Catholic but is no more Catholic as I am Italian or Scotch or Irish. They are CINO's Catholic in Name Only.
Ultimately, the failure to persuade the Latino voter that their faith needs to help define them in the spiritual realm, is the failure of our faith today. We must as AMERICAN'S, reach out to our brothers and sisters who are of hispanic origin and bring them into the fold of their faith.
IF we are going to save the lost generations of Abortion in the future we must understand that Catholics need to unite under the glory that is found in the truth of Jesus Christ.
We must understand that LIFE is the moral issue of our time, the Slavery issue of our TIME and that if any life is worth the effort of government protection it is that LIFE that is least able to help itself...the child in the womb.
The great lie is that it was not Liberal Amerca that stood up to Hitler, Stalin or Pol Pot, it was all of America. But it will only be Conservative Cathoic America that stands up for the Child not yet born. To succeed we need all Catholic American's aboard on this quest.
The GOD who granted us life and liberty also granted us 'free will'...our will to succeed must be great than our will to survive.
Not again should 54% of Catholics choose a candidate that supports Abortion.