The Bishops, who brought you the resoundingly unsuccessful "Fortnight for Freedom," are now preparing their Sunday homilies for the faithful to encourage them to "vote Catholic"—i.e. vote for the Romney/Ryan ticket. Leading the charge is Bishop Daniel Jenky, of Peoria, Illinois, who is calling for all priests "by virtue of their vow of obedience to me as your Bishop" to read his letter on the election at each mass they celebrate this weekend. The letter, addressed to Catholic believers, is an appeal to the "threat to religious liberty" because of the HHS mandate. Since Bishop Jenky did not say the priests had to read the letter aloud, one hopes that some smart priest or two will simply read the letter silently to himself in the pulpit.
Bishop Jenky's overbearing order to his parish priests smacks of hypocrisy. After all, this is the same Bishop who said that President Obama was like Hitler and Stalin. Jenky and his Bishop brethren are threatening Catholic believers; and are doing so by insinuating it would be a "grave sin" to vote for anyone who enables abortion. What about war, or murder? Surely those should count as a grave sin as well?
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