COMMUNION IN THE HAND

USCCB GETS PART WAY THERE

"In a nationwide call to Catholics to prevent health care reform from being derailed by the abortion lobby, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has sent bulletin inserts and pulpit announcements to almost 19,000 parishes across the country.

“As long-time advocates of health care reform, the U.S. Catholic bishops continue to make the moral case that genuine health care reform must protect the life, dignity, consciences and health of all, especially the poor and vulnerable,” the insert says. “Health care reform should not advance a pro-abortion agenda in our country.”

As Congress negotiates a final health care bill, the insert encourages Catholics to contact their Senators and Representatives, urging them to keep longstanding restrictions against federal funding of abortion and full conscience protection in the legislation. If these criteria are not met, Catholics are asked to urge Congress to oppose the final bill."

USCCB.org

Great start guys! I was going to write something about this and how you are kinda, sorta standing up for the truth. And that it was refreshing in light of the way you normally are willing to sacrifice it as needed to support "social justice". I was going to write about the logical inconsistency of denouncing abortion in the health control bill while refusing to deny communion to those that support it. I thought that I was going to fill the void in topics today until I read Commentarius de Prognosticis and found he had covered it all. So, why reinvent the wheel? Here's an excerpt:

"However, the Bishops in the USCCB must do their part. Every and any Catholic politician who publicly supports abortion, gay marriage, embryonic stem cell research, human cloning or euthanasia must be publicly denied reception of Holy Communion. This condition of abortion provisions in the health care reform bills before Congress exists directly because of the help of Catholic politicians who believe that the infanticide of the unborn is "a woman's right to choose". If the Bishops had properly catechized the Faithful, then this condition would not exist. But the exaltation of the false gospel of social justice and peace at any price above the true Gospel of repentance and conversion is the direct cause of this situation. The abdication to nanny government of our Christian responsibility to feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, visit the imprisoned, welcome the alien and care for the sick is the reason why abortion provisions exist in the health care bill."