{"id":6069,"date":"2008-11-21T16:10:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T16:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/11\/foca-would-be-the-equivalent-o.html"},"modified":"2008-11-21T16:10:55","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T16:10:55","slug":"foca-would-be-the-equivalent-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/11\/foca-would-be-the-equivalent-o.html","title":{"rendered":"FOCA would be &#8220;the equivalent of war&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/ldn\/2008\/nov\/08111908.html\">Looks like the Vatican is ready to fight against Obama and Catholics who support the FOCA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The possible signing of the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) by President-Elect Barack Obama would be &#8220;the equivalent of a war&#8221; an unnamed senior Vatican official recently told TIME magazine.<br \/>\nThe startling comments make the second time this week that a Vatican official has forthrightly and in the strongest language condemned Obama&#8217;s extreme policies on abortion.  Speaking at the Catholic University of America a few days ago, Vatican Cardinal James Stafford labeled Obama&#8217;s anti-life policies as &#8220;aggressive, disruptive, and apocalyptic,&#8221; also noting that, &#8220;On November 4, 2008, America suffered a cultural earthquake&#8221;<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\nLast week at the meeting of US Bishops in Baltimore, Cybercast News Service asked Chicago Cardinal Francis George, the current president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, if voting for FOCA would bring a penalty of automatic excommunication for Catholic politicians. The Cardinal did not rule it out.<br \/>\n&#8220;The excommunication is automatic if that act is in fact formal cooperation, and that is precisely what would have to be discussed once you would see the terms of the act itself,&#8221; responded Cardinal George. When asked for more, he added: &#8220;The categories in moral theology about cooperating in evil, which make you complicit in the evil even though you don&#8217;t do it yourself, are material cooperation, which is usually remote and therefore doesn&#8217;t involve you in the moral action except in a very auxiliary and minor way, and formal cooperation, which would involve you even though you are not doing it, in the way that makes you culpable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Will the Catholics in the pew join the fight? A majority of them voted for Obama. Maybe they&#8217;ll care when the church closes hospitals instead of being forced to perform abortions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like the Vatican is ready to fight against Obama and Catholics who support the FOCA. 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