What makes a good catholic; that is the question?
I was reading this article where (neo) conservatives catholic ask Speaker Pelosi to not attend communion and mass with Pope Benedict because she believe and support a contraceptive for women, including abortion.
This got me thinking, do Speaker Pelosi support for contraceptive usage for women make her any less of a catholic than conservative Catholics?
Yes, the catholic church are against all form of birth control especially abortion because they believe that all life are sacred but they are also against the death penalty, poverty, social injustice, and the occupation in Iraq.
If conservatives catholic believe that you can’t be a catholic because you support a women right to contraceptives and abortion than it is logical to conclude that these conservative catholic would personally ex communicate themselves from the catholic church because Pope John Paul II spoke out repeatly against the invasion of Iraq, something that the conservative catholic support along with the death penalty?
Do a liberal or progressive catholic are less of a Christian than a conservative catholic?
Many domestic and foreign policy that liberal and progressive catholic support are similar to the catholic church but they different on contraceptive usage and abortion.
Many domestic and foreign policy that conservative catholic support are very different from the catholic church, especially when it come to the death penalty, the occupation of Iraq and poverty/ social injustice among our fellow people.
Here is an example:
Let’s pretend that slavery still exist even though the catholic church are against it and that the Supreme Court voted in favor of roe instead of wade.
The Catholic Church had come out publicly against slavery, the death penalty, contraceptive, and abortion.
A liberal catholic in congress always voted against the expansion of slavery and any laws or bills that included slavery and the death penalty but he always voted in favor of Roe.
A conservative catholic in congress owns slaves, always voted for the expansion of slavery, believe in the death penalty, are for Jim Crow laws and segregation but had always voted against contraceptive for women and restricting a woman right to terminate her pregnancy.
Does the conservative catholic slave owner less of a catholic than the liberal catholic? Why must there be a litmus test when it comes to being a catholic? Even if the conservative catholic and liberal catholic disagree with church doctrine and how it should be deal with public policy, why must conservative catholic call upon liberal catholic to be denied communion because of disagreement?
Do a conservative catholic who owns slave and are against all domestic and foreign policy of the Catholic Church had the right to demand the expulsion of liberal catholic who had fellow all Catholic Church doctrine except contraceptives and abortion?
Who gets determine who is a catholic? Conservative Catholics? The pope? Who makes the decision when it comes to being a Christian and a catholic? Why must one personal belief (contraceptive and abortion) be outcaste from the Catholic Church while those (conservative catholic) that disagree with many catholic teaching be given the right to communion?
As James 2: 10 -11 said:
“For whoever shall keep the whole laws yet offend in one point, than he is guilty of all. For he that said ‘thou shall not commit adultery’ said also, ‘thou shall not kill’ yet if thou commit no adultery, yet thou kill, than thou are a transgressor of the law”
If this law apply to all, than conservative catholic along with liberal catholic must excommunicate themselves from the Catholic Church. Pope John Paul II was against the occupation of Iraq from the beginning yet many conservative catholic support the occupation whereas liberals catholic was against the occupation of Iraq yet disagree with the catholic church on contraceptive and abortion. Who is wrong here and who is right? Are both guilty of a crime or is it just a mere disagreement between Catholics?
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