Bishop Doran’s outspoken words not favorably received by some.
Is true that you have to be a Republican to be be a “good Catholic’? Is this what the Bishop of Rockford preaches?
Bishop Doran, of the Catholic Diocese of Rockford, Illinois, last week posted a column on his diocesan web site. His article is causing conservative and Republican Catholics to jump for joy.
Here's the link to the entire column:
http://www.rockforddiocese.org/observer/observer.asp?a=0
Doran begins by blaming American decadence on the Democrats, and invoking the specter of national suicide:
"Many of the issues that confront us are serious, and we know by now that the political parties in our country are at loggerheads as to how to solve them. We know, for instance, that adherents of one political party would place us squarely on the road to suicide as a people.
The seven “sacraments” of their secular culture are abortion, buggery, contraception, divorce, euthanasia, feminism of the radical type, and genetic experimentation and mutilation. These things they unabashedly espouse, profess and promote. Their continuance in public office is a clear and present danger to our survival as a nation."
and toward the end of the column, Doran calls for the "extirpation from our society" of those who promote these activities:
"It is the duty of every Catholic to support the work of the parish Pro-Life directors and commissions and to work for the extirpation from our society of all those who in any way foster or promote these things. I wholeheartedly endorse the activities of our Pro-Life Office in the sure and certain knowledge that divine justice will not allow those who act against human life to prosper.
These unholy sacraments of our secular culture are the seeds of the destruction of our nation."
It's one thing to say that Catholics ought to "support the work of the parish Pro-Life directors and commissions." Those bodies are innocuous lobbyists, and their activities are covered by the First Amendment.
But it's something else to say that "it is the duty of every Catholic" to "work for the extirpation from our society of all those who in any way foster or promote these things." I looked up "extirpate" in an on-line dictionary, and the word means what I thought it did: "to pull up by the roots," or "to destroy totally; exterminate," or to "remove by surgery."
If this program were implemented, millions of Americans would be "resettled in the East".
Bishop Doran is an integral part of the Vatican bureaucracy, and is not a "lone wolf" in the hierarchy.
From his biography page:
http://www.rockforddiocese.org/bishop/
Quote:
"He served on the Roman Rota until his appointment as Bishop of Rockford in April of 1994. Bishop Doran was ordained and installed as the Eighth Bishop of the Diocese of Rockford on June 24, 1994. On September 2, 2000 the Holy Father recognized the Diocese of Rockford and Bishop Doran by naming him a member of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura. On March 2, 2001, Pope John Paul II named Bishop Doran a bishop member of the Congregation for the Clergy.
Bishop Doran currently serves on the following Committees and Boards:Chairman of the USCCB Canonical Affairs Committee
Administrative Committee of the USCCB
Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Abuse of Minors
President of the Institute on Religious Life
Board of Catholics United for the Faith
Trustee for The Catholic University of America"
Bishop Doran is promoting a type of religion that Jesus would not recognize as his own.
Lee
Above taken from: Bishop Doran (RC, Diocese of Rockford, IL) blasts Democrats and urges "extirpation from our society" for some sinners | The Agonist
As it turns out the Bishop use the same theme way back in 2006. This is from: http://episcopalspinealert.blogspot.com/2006/08/bishop-thomas-doran-diocese-of.html
Monday, August 21, 2006
Bishop Thomas Doran - Diocese of Rockford, IL
The United States, with its vast abortion industry, will soon rival the Nazis, who were responsible for about 50 million deaths during the Second World War, said Bishop Thomas Doran of Rockford, last week.Source: Americans to ‘outstrip’ Nazis in taking human life, says bishop Catholic News Agency. August 21, 2006.Americans are appalled by the Nazi regime, “and yet in our country we have, for the most part, allowed the party of death and the court system it has produced to eliminate, since 1973, upwards of 40 million of our fellow citizens without allowing them to see the light of day,” the bishop wrote in the diocesan newspaper.
“No doubt, we shall soon outstrip the Nazis in doing human beings to death,” he stated.
In his Aug. 10 column, the bishop said the “seven sacraments” of secular culture—abortion, buggery, contraception, divorce, euthanasia, feminism of the radical type, and genetic experimentation and mutilation—are “a clear and present danger to our survival as a nation.”
Meet Bishop Doran [Diocese Website].
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