2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumA Catholic priest put an aborted fetus on the altar in an appeal for Donald Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/11/07/a-catholic-priest-put-an-aborted-fetus-on-the-altar-in-an-appeal-for-donald-trump/During an already heated and divisive campaign season, Pavones video has raised questions for some about what is appropriate antiabortion and political activism in the church. As of Monday afternoon, the video, which is 44 minutes long, had had 236,000 views. In it, he holds up a poster of graphics of abortion procedures.
In Pavones Facebook appeal, he wrote, we have to decide if we will allow this child killing to continue in America or not. Hillary Clinton and the Democratic platform says yes, let the child-killing continue (and you pay for it); Donald Trump and the Republican platform says no, the child should be protected.
A recent quote from the pope.
"No tyranny finds support without tapping into our fears," Francis said. "This is key. Hence, all tyranny is terrorist. And when this terror -- which was sown in the peripheries, with the massacres, looting, oppression and injustice -- explodes in centers with different forms of violence, even hateful and cowardly attacks, citizens who still retain some rights are tempted to the false security of physical or social walls.
"Walls that enclose some and banish others. Walled citizens, terrified on one side, excluded, exiled, and still more terrified on the other. Is that the life that our Father God wants for their children?
"Dear brothers and sisters -- all walls fall. All of them. Do not be fooled."
vlyons
(10,252 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,438 posts)redwitch
(14,933 posts)The man has a screw loose. I will be interested to see what is done about this action.
SamKnause
(13,041 posts)Do you have a link that pertains to your post ???
still_one
(91,947 posts)IamTheNoodle
(98 posts)Why do these religious folks buy so easily into what the huckster is selling?
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)Next week: Rick Santorum
TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)adopted or how many children he's help his flock adopt. JUST SICK. Is there anything we can do about this guy? I'd love to see him BE TAKEN DOWN.
Island Blue
(5,811 posts)sure would come in handy.
KK9
(81 posts)That is NOT a human fetus. Totally fake.
anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)Catholic television network). Pavone is notorious for pulling all sorts of insane stunts to bring attention to the issue that he thinks is more important than anything else, like feeding and caring for the poor, etc. He is a total nutcase.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/scottericalt/after-sick-political-stunt-fr-pavones-faculties-should-be-suspended/
anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)theology). Pavone's action desecrates the scared space of the altar, and the Patheos article (Patheos is a site dedicated to religious points of view written by academics and others) argues that he should be permanent suspended for staging a grotesque stunt, abusing a Catholic sacred space in the process. Some priest.