Catholic
Priest Invites Gang of 18 To Leave Church
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ROYAL, VA — The Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer, STL, president
of Human Life International, (HLI) today said “Rep.
Rosa L. DeLauro (CT-3) and seventeen other members of
Congress who describe themselves as Catholic not only
are ignorant of their faith but also need a civics lesson.”
Father
Euteneuer was responding to their rebuke of Pope Benedict
XVI in a press release from DeLauro’s office which
stated that the Pope’s recent comments that Catholic
politicians risk excommunication and should not receive
Communion by saying, “Such notions offend the very
nature of the American experiment and do a great disservice
to the centuries of good work the church has done.”
Father
Euteneuer said, “It is an embarrassment that a Catholic,
much less a member of Congress should make such an absurd
statement. Even if this statement were true, the Holy
Father answers to a Higher Power than Rep. DeLauro and
the Gang of 18.”
“The
truth is,” Father Euteneuer said, “nothing
threatens the American experiment more than the legal
but unjust killing of human beings by abortion which stands
in stark contrast to the very first right enumerated by
our Declaration of Independence: The Right to Life. The
humanity of the unborn child is no longer even debated.
It is a scientific fact. Abortion is murder, and murder
is against the law. Like Dred Scott before it, which violated
certain citizens’ Right to Liberty, Roe v. Wade
is bad, dishonest law and will eventually fall.”
“Excommunication
is a pastoral and medicinal penalty, not a political one.
The Pope is well within his free expression of religion
guaranteed by the US Constitution—and his pastoral
duty—to warn any Catholic when their eternal salvation
is jeopardized by their actions” Father Euteneuer
said. “This is what the Catholic Church teaches
and what Catholics believe. If the Gang of 18 believes
otherwise, honesty and integrity requires they find another
church that tells them what they want to hear. If they
have that much of a problem being Catholic, no one is
forcing them to stay. We certainly don’t need their
hypocrisy.”
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