Catholic Democrats vs. The Catholic Church

It is not exactly a news flash that Catholic Democrats and 

assorted Catholic leftists have habitually expressed their 

vehement disagreement with Catholic teaching, especially

on certain issues, i.e. abortion. But the latest to do so has 

been at this for quite some years, and in her recent escapade 

she has been showing a lot more chutzpah than she had before.

U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, an ardent Democrat who also happens

to be Catholic (so she constantly announces), led a group of 59 

Democrats who also identify as Catholics in issuing a "Statement

of Principles", which chastises the U.S. Catholic bishops for 

addressing the issue of Catholic politicians who disagree with 

and eschew Catholic moral teachings. Recently, 73% of the 

bishops voted to consider a document on the suitability of these

self-identifying Catholics to receive Holy Communion. 

This is not DeLauro's first "Statement of Principles" aimed at 

the bishops. In 2006 she put forth one which claimed that one 

can be a Catholic in good standing and support abortion rights.

The next year DeLauro was one of 18 such Catholics to criticize

Pope Benedict XVI on abortion. In 2015, she led a contingent

of 93 like-minded Catholics telling Pope Francis what issues he

should address when visiting the United States; Right to life 

was conspicuous by its absence from the list while climate change

figured prominently. 

So in this "Statement" DeLauro and her bunch claimed to be proud

to be part of the Catholic tradition that "expresses a consistent moral

framework for life," and that they "agree with the Catholic Church

about the value of human life." I did mention chutzpah three 

paragraphs ago, so as to cushion this shock --- nearly all the 

signatories have pro-abortion voting records. DeLauro herself 

sports a 100% rating from NARAL; gee, she sure values human 

life, eh?

DeLauro and her cohorts added one more exhibition of hubris when 

they called the bishops hypocritical for focusing on abortion rather

than the death penalty (both of which the Catholic Church opposes).

A statistical tidbit for you: It is estimated that between 1973 and

2019, over 61 million innocent, harmless unborn babies were 

killed in their mothers' wombs. The number of convicted criminals

who were executed during these years? 1,512. The latter's much 

lower number is due to, among many factors, some individual 

states abolishing capital punishment and a ban on executions for

federal crimes by the U.S. Government (since reinstated).

I doubt Rep. DeLauro and her chums are aware of these figures.

As a Catholic, the Peasant is opposed to both abortion and capital

punishment, and am also not adverse to denying DeLauro and

her fellow pro-abortion Catholics communion for their defiance of

Catholic moral teaching along with their double-talk on the faith and

abortion. If they are bucking for some memberships in the Catholic

Magisterium, they will be very much out of luck. They are fooling

no one, they have become a big bore, and should pack it all in. 

MEM