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Board Certified M.D. on Saturday, October 25, 2008 10:51:49 AM
Wisconsin is another Battle-Ground State where Roman Catholics make up 29% of the population and are ~1.6 million strong! Bishop Morlino had a coronary after VP Plugs Joe Biden was on MTP. The rebuke of Biden by Madison's Prelate Morlino who scrapped his homily after Plug Head's MTP blunder railing on Cafeteria Catholics like Joe! See here:
- Bishop Robert C. Morlino of Madison, Wisconsin, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput and Auxiliary Bishop James D. Conley of Denver have reacted to Senator Joseph Biden's remarks on NBC's Meet The Press, criticizing him for confusing the differences between faith and natural law and for flawed moral reasoning.
After watching Biden's appearance on Meet the Press, Bishop Morlino at the last minute set aside his prepared homily on Sunday and instead addressed the Senator and Speaker Nancy Pelosi's fallacious remarks about Church teaching on abortion.
- Senator Biden, noted the Bishop, doesn't understand the difference between "religious faith and natural law."
- "Any human being, regardless of his faith, his religious practice or having no faith, any human being can reason to the fact that human life from conception unto natural death is sacred," Bishop Morlino argued. "Biology, not faith, not philosophy, not any kind of theology - Biology tells us, science [says], that at the moment of conception there exists a unique individual of the human species."
- "It's not a matter of what I might believe. What my faith might teach me," he said. "Sen. Biden has an obligation to know that. And he doesn't know it."
- Bishop Morlino then criticized politicians for confusing the Catholic faithful by making false, inaccurate or misleading public statements.
- "They're supposed to believe in separation of church and state. They're violating the separation of church and state by confusing people about what I have an obligation to teach," he charged.
- "Prominent Catholics should not be violating the separation of church and state" by "teaching the wrong thing", but Pelosi and Biden, in their lack of knowledge and understanding, were "doing precisely that," the Bishop said.
- "They themselves were confused after the Council and I don't blame them for that. Bishops allowed it, theologians did it, some priests did it, and in Canada even some bishops did it."
- Bishop Morlino concluded by encouraging his listeners to make sure they themselves really understood what the Catholic faith teaches, through the Pope and the bishops, and to offer correction to those who were confused or in error "with love," because otherwise "we will be lost too."
- Click here to listen to Bishop Morlino's 15 minute sermon
Readers Thank You from the bottom of my heart again for your help as well Hugh Hewitt's help in getting the word out to Catholics who could swing the Elelction to McCain/Palin if they vote according to their Catholic Life affirming Fait which Trumps all other issues! Vivat Jesu