Ugh.
Couldn’t we just have a moment where we acknowledge that millions and millions of children’s lives have been snuffed out in the womb and today is a good day because the Supreme Court acknowledged that there is no constitutional right to abortion.
But no. What do we get? This:
STATEMENT OF ARCHBISHOP NELSON J. PÉREZ
FOLLOWING OPINION FROM THE
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES IN
DOBBS V. JACKSON WOMEN’S HEALTH ORGANIZATION
I am grateful to the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States for their willingness to hear Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, and for their opinion, which affirms the deep value inherent to every human life.
As Catholics, we believe that life is God’s most precious gift and that we share a responsibility to uphold its beauty and sanctity from conception to natural death. In addition to being strong advocates for the unborn, this responsibility extends to caring for the hungry, the poor, the sick, the immigrant, the elderly, the oppressed, and any of our brothers and sisters who are marginalized. In short, to be truly pro-life means to recognize the presence of God in everyone and to care for them accordingly.
The Church’s strong commitment to protecting and preserving human life is a holistic one. The Archdiocese of Philadelphia is one of the largest private providers of social services in the region. Our ministries and programs provide a continuum of care to those in need regardless of their faith tradition.
Our charitable programs provide formula, diapers, education, and comprehensive support services to pregnant women, fathers, new parents, and single parents. We have distributed more than a million meals in the greater Philadelphia region to those struggling with food insecurity. We shelter the homeless, support veterans, those in recovery, and help students with special needs receive the Catholic education they deserve. We have helped desperate families get back on their feet and bring joy to the lives of the aged and lonely.
I have often said that we are a people of hope. It is my personal hope that we can all live and work peacefully, side-by-side, to create a true culture of life in our Nation.
May God bless you.
Most Reverend Nelson J. Pérez, D.D.
Archbishop of Philadelphia
A real champion for the unborn, amirite?
June 24, 2022 at 7:24 pm
Send the immigrants back so the children of actual Americans can have a future. Immigrants steal their economic potential, and debase the moral climate. So do the so-called “oppressed” by ehich these freaks aleays mean criminals and perverts rather than normal civily righteous peopke oppressed by Biden’s gas prices.
June 24, 2022 at 10:49 pm
Seamless garment Blather. Spoken like a true Democrat Catholic. But not to worry, just do good, be good, and when you meet Jesus face to face, he will welcome you.
June 24, 2022 at 11:05 pm
He’s not wrong though.
June 27, 2022 at 1:39 am
The Archbishop is correct. Now the Pro-Life movement can be truly and wholly Pro-Life in the genuine Catholic way not solely Pro-Birth or Anti-Abortion only as opponents often portray it. It can now focus not only on the unborn but also especially on the born who are also threatened with pre-mature death by death-dealing forces, like the immigrants and the oppressed as the Archbishop cited and as taught by Jesus in Matthew 25.
July 1, 2022 at 4:04 pm
No more money to the church for the nonsense that comes out of the mouth of church “leaders”. We must stop all donations immediately. We will give direct. You people get millions from the government for these illegal aliens. Anyone who doesn’t know the difference between a pre born baby being ripped into pieces and a lawbreaker is insane. Shame on you.
June 27, 2022 at 8:40 am
Heads up Johnson, many of the Hispanic immigrants are Catholic/Christians. Implying that all of them debase the moral climate is ignorant and insulting to people who are genuinely desperate in their lives and situations.
That doesn’t mean that there are gang members, drug runners and coyotes and human trafficking going on. They’re not the ones who have any of my sympathy.
I will agree with you on the economics of their flooding the labor market. There’s also a marked lack of work ethic in our general population though. People aren’t willing to take on the more menial of jobs for various reasons. Immigration contributes to that, definitely. However, there wouldn’t be as large an incentive for immigrants to come and work the thankless jobs if our own unemployed citizenry weren’t showing up to work them in the first place.
June 27, 2022 at 1:34 pm
Based on my own dealings with him, Archbishop Perez does not strike me as strongly pro life – at all. As a lay person, I received a graduate degree in the 1990s from Philly’s St Charles Seminary. I don’t understand how the archbishop seemed to walk away from St Charles himself without “fire in his belly” for the sanctity of human life. God is doing His greatest pro life work through lay people who go unnoticed.
July 21, 2022 at 9:54 pm
One of the most ingenious parts of the Lader/Nathanson strategy of making the Catholic Church the anti-abortion boogy man is that it silenced most priests and bishops on the issue and somehow convinced them, over the years, that they had done so much for the unborn. The marginalized unborn do not know Perez or most of the Bishops, but they think they defeated Roe?