Bishop kicks ass and takes names!

Finally!

Finally all these liberal, document interpreting, baby killing liberals got a bit of it from the Bishop!

Lately there have been "catholics" who think they know more than the Church. They read ambiguously written documents by the USCCB and think they have the right to interpret them to suit the candidate they support. And then they try to pass their opinions off as official Church teaching.

Well, Bishop Martino showed up unannounced at a "presidential election" forum at St. John's Church in Honesdale. And he blasted them for promoting baby killing candidates, and for personal interpretations of USCCB documents.

Let me say a few words about the USCCB first.

There is an invention that came out of Vatican II called collegiality, in which the Bishops of the world were encourgaed to start their own conferences. Now these conferences are a little to big for their collective britches and each one assumes the role of a mini-Vatican. So whereas before VII there was one Church with the Vicar of Christ as its head, today we have several little Catholic Churches with whoever is voted into the head of that particular conference.

And they think they are on equal footing with the Pope.

So the USCCB collectively issue statements to the Catholic Church in America.

One such document is the ultra-ambiguous "Faithful Citizenship". It reads "...a Catholic cannot vote for a candidate who takes a position in favor of an intrinsic evil, such as abortion or racism, if the voter’s intent is to support that position." So one sees that the USCCB makes church teaching not so clear by stating one can vote for a pro-death candidate if the issue of pro-death is not the sole reason.

Nice of the Bishops to give an easy out for people to vote democrat.

Of course, that is not Church teaching.

Bishop Martino on the other hand, wrote a pastoral letter dated September 30 where he called for Catholics in his diocese, where he is the sole interpretor of Church teaching, to oppose candidates supporting abortion rights. He quoted his predecessor Bishop Timlin "...the taking of innocent human life is so heinous, so horribly evil, and so absolutely opposite to the law of Almighty God that abortion must take precedence over every other issue."

At the forum, the Bishop is quoted as having said “No USCCB document is relevant in this diocese. The USCCB doesn’t speak for me. The only relevant document ... is my letter. There is one teacher in this diocese, and these points are not debatable.”

Of course, the dissenters are accusing the Bishop of breaking with the USCCB, if there is such a thing.

Get this in your heads liberals.

The Bishop is the sole interpretor of Church teaching in this diocese, not the USCCB, not Joey Biden, not Douglas Kmiec, not me and not you.

If you can't accept that, go join one of the thousands of sects that have sprouted up since Martin Luther posted his nonsense on the Church doors. I'm sure you will be much happier there.