Introduction
Two of the worst scandals faced by today's Catholics are:
1. Those public figures who
pretend to be faithful Catholics but who vigorously promote abortion.
2. Catholic institutions that give awards or otherwise lend credibility to
notorious champions of abortion.
This web site
is dedicated to the
proposition that "Catholic" champions of abominations such as
abortion, euthanasia, and infanticide should be admonished by
Church authorities to publicly renounce their positions; that the refusal to do
so should result in the public excommunication of the offenders
in accord with canon law, leaving aside the question of whether
they had already incurred automatic
excommunication.
The penalty of excommunication is directed
to the ends of reconciling the offender with the Church and of alleviating scandal.
Excommunication should not be conditioned
upon a political calculus of expected changes in a politician's voting habits;
nor upon whether constituents will vote him out of
office. Rather, the penalty should be imposed because it is the correct thing to do.
The refusal to implement the Church's laws in
the interest of saving the lives of unborn children, and of saving souls,
effects, humanly speaking, the ultimate act of uncharity. Indulgence in the
application of censures, sanctions, and penalties may be virtuous when the
consequences of the wrongdoing have ended and also when it is oneself that has
suffered the damage, but failure to act where the danger of life and death
still continues, and where the damage is being sustained by others, is the
supreme act of civic irresponsibility.
Bishops, in imitation of Christ, are called to teach, to sanctify, and to govern
the Church. It is not consistent to demand that Catholic politicians govern in accord with Church teaching if the hierarchy does not itself govern by
this standard. If promotion of the greatest holocaust of all time does not
warrant the penalty of excommunication, then what does?
"Expel the evil one from
among you." — 1 Cor. 5:13
