Woe to you, Faux Catholic, Hypocrite...

[guest commentary by Paladin]

For those of you who're more used to my usual mild tone, I apologize in advance... but I am seriously ticked off.

From the Indispensable LifeSiteNews:

HINSDALE, Illinois, October 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Dominican nun has been seen frequenting an abortion facility in Hinsdale, Illinois recently - but not, as one might expect, to pray for an end to abortion or to counsel women seeking abortions, but to volunteer as a clinic escort.

Local pro-life activists say that they recognized the escort at the ACU Health Center as Sr. Donna Quinn, a nun outspokenly in favor of legalized abortion, after seeing her photo in a Chicago Tribune article.

This woman is corrupt. Let's call a spade a spade. She may've slid into this corruption through "good intentions" (Hell need not go to Menards or Builder's Squarem for paving stones for its inroads, y'know), but she's a hypocrite--in the worst sense of the word, and of the highest order. This woman contributes to the torture and death of unborn children, and still cravenly clings to the title, not only of "Catholic" (which is a big enough lie), but of "Catholic religious sister".

I see. So, just as the modern world demands that we allow a Greenpeace member to carve their initials into living beached whales with dull, rusty knives while still demanding Greenpeace membership rights... just as the modern world demands that someone who boils kittens alive for sheer enjoyment can still be a card-carrying member of PETA... just so, does the world demand that the Catholic Church not reject this wayward woman and her demonic volunteer duties. I see.

At least the members of the Culture of Death are consistent... right?

So... at least I can take consolation in the fact that her religious superior will, at very least, denounce her and expel her from the order, right?

Sr. Patricia Mulcahey, OP, Quinn's Prioress at the Sinsinawa Dominican community, said in an email response to LSN that the nun sees her volunteer activity as "accompanying women who are verbally abused by protestors. Her stance is that if the protestors were not abusive, she would not be there."

Though Sr. Mulcahey claimed that her sisters "support the teachings of the Catholic Church," she declined to comment on Quinn's public protest of Catholic Church teaching.

Wow.

Seriously... give me a good, honest atheist and/or relativist, any day of the week. But betrayal--especially if that betrayal involves a grandmotherly smile as she walks the women past the mean and cruel pro-lifers, a kindly pat on the shoulder as she tells the woman to "be a brave girl" as she submits her body to violation and her child to dismemberment, and a sweet and humble suggestion to drink some hot Linden tea if she has any cramps afterward--makes me want to spit rusty nails.

I tremble for this woman on Judgment Day. But in the meantime, might I offer my own (perhaps isolated) plea that she physically GET THE **** OUT OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, so that her body at least matches her soul which abandoned the Church long ago??

Diplomatic Dithering, and Other Evils

[guest commentary by Paladin]

At the risk of putting my foot in a pile of unsavoury stuff: apparently, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has felt it necessary to congratulate the President of Death for his (yes, I still blink incredulously when I hear it) Nobel Peace Prize (h/t LifeSiteNews.com):

Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), issued the following statement, congratulating President Barack Obama on being honored with the Nobel Peace Prize:

"In the name of the Catholic Bishops of the United States, I would like to offer congratulations to President Barack Obama on his receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. As he has graciously said, much of the work of realizing a more peaceful and just world for all persons and nations remains to be done; but the prize was given because as President of the United States he has already changed the international conversation. [...]"

Okay. I know that it's the modus operandi of the USCCB (or its mouthpieces) to be diplomatic in all circumstances (at least to those on the political left), and I'm certainly no strong advocate of turning rhetorical flamethrowers on people; but, for the love of all that's holy, why say anything at all??? Does anyone truly think that the rest of the world was waiting, with hands on hips and tapping foot, for the USCCB to add their comments to the body politic? They had every opportunity simply to keep quiet and let the absurdity speak for itself... but no: they had to try to invest the moment with some "gravitas" (but, fortunately in this case, the USCCB hasn't much of it to invest). Argh. Common sense, anyone?

The Maltese Pigeon

[guest commentary by Paladin]

I usually don't like to exert even a tiny bit of bandwidth to give (*ack* *ahem* *choke*) Ambassador Douglas Kmiec, chief faux-Catholic apologist for the President of Death and heir-apparent of the Sir Richard Rich "Sell My Soul for Wales" legacy (thanks to Fr. Z for the phrase), the media attention he appears to crave so desperately. But I did need to pass on one of the best quotes on the matter that I'd read in a long time.

From the ever-admirable LifeSiteNews, and from the pen/keyboard of Human Life International's Joseph Meaney:

Perhaps even more troubling than Kmiec’s obsequiousness in accepting these pathetic lines of reasoning is how he describes being intellectually seduced by President Obama. The ambassador has bought--hook, line, and sinker--the false definition of ‘dialogue’ which always entails a serious, thoughtful pose and a polite nod of the head, and results in the even greater acceleration of the culture of death. Of course they "listen" when they’re in power! Then they do exactly what they were going to do and people like Kmiec get in line and become their apologists.

How long, O Lord...?"