Catholics Who Vote for Pro-Choice or Pro-Abortion Candidates Commit a Mortal Sin. They Must Go to Confession Before Receiving Holy Communion...

Catholics Who Vote for Pro-Abortion or Pro-Same Sex Marriage Candidates Commit a Mortal Sin. They Must Go to Confession Before Receiving Holy Communion...

“For that reason among many, the United States will suffer unless there is placed into your government a group that fears the Lord if they cannot love the Lord. They will fear Him and find measures to stop the slaughter of the unborn.” – Our Lady of the Roses, April 14, 1984

"Are you so blind that you do not recognize the acceleration of sin among you? Murders abound, thievery, all manner of carnage, destruction of young souls, abortion, homosexuality, condemned from the beginning of time by the Eternal Father. Yet sin has become a way of life. Sin is condoned now, even unto the highest judge of your land and your lands throughout the world. As you have sown so shall you reap. Sin is death, not only of the spirit, but of the body. Wars are a punishment for man's sin, his greed, his avarice. Pride and arrogance is bringing down into hell mitres from My Son's House." - Our Lady of the Roses, August 14, 1981

To be Catholic is to be unconditionally pro-life...
Since the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, over 44,000,000 babies have been murdered under cloak of law. Killing for convenience has become heavily entrenched in our once moral nation.

Pope John Paul II, in an address to Lindy Boggs (Ambassador of the United States to the Holy See), stated:

Any Christian knows that murder of the innocent breaks the Commandments of God. The Catholic Church teaches very clearly that:

Also, the Church teaches that a Catholic may never obey an immoral law, such as legalized abortion:

Those Catholics who perform an abortion, or are accomplices to an abortion, receive the automatic punishment of excommunication. Pope John Paul II writes:

"The Church’s canonical discipline, from the earliest centuries, has inflicted penal sanctions on those guilty of abortion. This practice, with more or less severe penalties, has been confirmed in various periods of history. The 1917 Code of Canon Law punished abortion with excommunication. The revised canonical legislation continues this tradition when it decrees that ‘a person who actually procures an abortion incurs automatic (Latae sententiae) excommunication’ (Canon 1398). The excommunication affects all those who commit this crime with knowledge of the penalty attached and thus includes those accomplices without whose help the crime would not have been committed (Canon 1329). By this reiterated sanction, the Church makes clear that abortion is a most serious and dangerous crime, thereby encouraging those who commit it to seek without delay the path of conversion. In the Church the purpose of the penalty of excommunication is to make an individual fully aware of the gravity of a certain sin and then to foster genuine conversion and repentance."[4]

Before the 2008 election we asked a priest if it was a mortal sin for a Catholic to vote for a pro-abort candidate. He said, "Yes." We emphatically said, "Father why don't you say this from the pulpit?" He would not do it. Now look what we happened. We like to think of priests as heroic and courageous leaders for Christ, alter-Christus. But for some we are very deeply saddened to find out they are cowards. Pray for the clergy.

The sin of omission...
The clergy have the grave responsibility to inform their flock that it is a mortal sin to vote for a pro-choice or a pro-abort politician. They risk the fires of hell if they do not speak out. On October 6, 1980, Our Lady of the Roses said:

It is a mortal sin to vote pro-choice or pro-abortion...
Surveys showed that in the 2000 election only 50% of those calling themselves Christians were registered to vote. On election day, only half of the Christians who were registered actually went to the polls.

Voting is not only our right but a duty under certain circumstances. According to Fr. Heribert Jone,

"Voting is a civic duty which would seem to bind at least under venial sin whenever a good candidate has an unworthy opponent. It might even be a mortal sin if one's refusal to vote would result in the election of an unworthy candidate."[14]

Fr. Matthew Habiger is convinced that it is a sin for a Catholic to vote for a pro-abortion candidate. He writes:

“Can a Catholic in good conscience vote for a politician who has a clear record of supporting abortion? Or is it a sin to vote for a politician who regularly uses his public office to fund or otherwise encourage the killing of unborn children? I take the position that it is clearly a sin to vote for such a politician....
“The argument can be made that voting is a very remote form of cooperation in abortion. But is it all that remote? The legislator who votes for abortion is clearly a formal accomplice, giving formal cooperation with abortion. S/he shares both in the intention of the act, and in supplying material support for the act. If I vote for such a candidate, knowing full well that he will help make available public monies for abortion, or continue it decriminalization, then I am aiding him/her.”[15]

The dismal pro-life voting record of U.S. Catholics reflects the sad fact that many within the Church have had abortions themselves, have apostatized and have accepted the pro-abortion stance. Studies show that “Catholics have a higher abortion rate than do Protestants and Jews.”[17] This would explain why many so-called Catholics vote Democrat, regardless of the Democratic Party’s pro-abortion platform. According to Leon J. Podles, “the Democratic Party has become the political home of unbelievers.... Moreover, anti-Christian policies are far more entrenched in the Democratic Party than Christian policies are in the Republican. Republicans sometimes want to ignore abortion; Democrats want to promote it, and make it a litmus test.”[18]

Bishop John Myers warns Catholics, “To support candidates who would continue or even expand the possibilities for more people to die by human choice is seriously wrong.”[19] The Vatican likewise states, “a well-formed Christian conscience does not permit one to vote for a political program or an individual law which contradicts the fundamental contents of faith and morals.”[20]

The awesome Bayside Prophecies... https://www.tldm.org/Bayside/default.htm
These prophecies came from Jesus, Mary, and the saints to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, NY, from 1968 to 1995:

THE UNITED STATES SHALL BE FIRST STRUCK
"One of the reasons the Eternal Father chose your city and your state for My appearance was because of abortion, the murder of the holy innocents. Your nation, without repentance, shall be the first struck." - Our Lady, March 15, 1978

THE UNITED STATES SHALL FALL
"How can a great country like the United States fall, you say, My child? You ask Me in your heart. I read your heart. I will tell you why. Because they have given themselves over to satan. When a country has lost its morality and seeks the pleasures of the flesh, giving over, themselves over, to all manner of abominations, like homosexuality, and condoning this up the highest courts of the land, then that country shall fall." - Our Lady of the Roses, November 1, 1985

HOMOSEXUALITY IN PRIESTHOOD
"I will not stand for My priests who condone homosexuality and allow it in My priesthood! I will not stand for My priests who allow the murder of the unborn with their permissiveness! I will not stand by and allow My priesthood to be destroyed!" Jesus, June 18, 1982

THEOLOGIANS
"Immorality, homosexuality, and what do We hear now but permissiveness in sex, even from the mouths of Our trained ones known as theologians? Have you all lost your minds or your souls to satan? Human sexuality you call it? Animal sexuality I call it! You fornicate like animals. And why did the Father deem it necessary to intervene upon Sodom and Gomorrah?" Jesus, November 21, 1977

AGAINST NATURE
"Homosexuality shall always be condemned, because it is against the nature of man*; and it is a violation of all human morality, and shall not be tolerated by the Eternal Father in the Trinity." Our Lady of the Roses, October 5, 1985

DOCTORS
"Doctors now are profaning their profession, those who have given themselves over to destroying human life in abortions." - Jesus, June 6, 1987

SHALL NEVER BE ACCEPTED
"Homosexuality shall never be accepted. In the writings of the good Fathers, My child and My children, you were made fully aware in the Old and the New Testament of the Book of life and love, the Bible--you had been made full aware of the dastardly acts of mankind, as men consort with men. This shall not be accepted nor condoned by the Eternal Father even if He has to send another plague upon you." Jesus, August 21, 1985

DESTROYED
"All who become part of or condone abortion, the murder of the young, shall be destroyed!" - Jesus, June 2, 1979

HUMAN LIFE IS SACRED
"The Eternal Father command that you stop these murders at once! You will not destroy the lives of the unborn. Human life is sacred in the eyes of your God. No man has the right to destroy a life. The Father, He sends this life to you, and only He will decide when it will return back to the Kingdom.
"Do not, My children, be deceived by the words of the evil ones about you who cry to you of no space left for man. There is space, for My Father has a plan for every life He sends." - Our Lady, August 5, 1971

WILL NEVER BE CONDONED
"You will remember, My children and My child, to guard the young. Your clergy have fallen into darkness. Abortion will never be condoned. But We must have others who fervently will go forward and bring out to the minds of those who have actually seduced the country and the children--bring them the knowledge of Heaven, hell and purgatory. Then they will not have free license to sin." - Our Lady, May 28, 1983

GOVERNMENT
"For that one reason among many, the United States will suffer unless there is placed into your government a group that fears the Lord if they cannot love the Lord. They will fear Him and find measures to stop the slaughter of the unborn." - Our Lady, April 14, 1984

NUNS
"That is what makes My heart ache, My child. That is one of the reasons Theresa is crying constantly when she looks into the convents and sees what is going on. Many now believe in abortion, the murders of the children; and many have committed this act upon themselves." - Jesus, October 1, 1988

SIXTY MILLION
"I say this for this reason: the Eternal Father is much disturbed at the numbers of abortions being committed throughout your country and the world. These numbers go upwards to fifty to sixty million in one year throughout the world." - Our Lady, June 18, 1986

TREATED AS GARBAGE
"O My child, My tears fall upon you all when I see all of the innocent little babies being slaughtered . . . cast into garbage pails like nothing but dirt and scum. They are living human beings! And all murderers shall get their just recompense." - Our Lady, March 18, 1983

BOMBS IN THE UNITED STATES
"These interlopers upon the serenity of the United States have dark skins.... With their plans there will be bombs placed in strategic places and many shall die at the hands of these ruffians....
"One big reason for permitting this disaster in New York would be the abortion mills throughout the city and the country." - Jesus, October 1, 1988

HOLY SPIRIT
"At the time of conception, the Holy Spirit makes the child, and the breath of the Almighty gives it life." - Our Lady, June 18, 1991

LIMBO
"And what, My children, are We going to do with all the aborted babies? O My child, I know you feel as I do, for I can see the great distress on your face. What are We going to do, My child? Do you understand when they come to Us, they must go to Limbo? They are in Heaven, a happy place, but they cannot see God." - Our Lady, October 2, 1987

SORROWFULLY
"Sorrowfully, the penance that is to come upon the world for the murders of the unborn shall be a chastisement far greater in severity than man has ever witnessed in the past nor ever shall pass through again. Your world is plunging into a deep chasm of suffering and destruction." - Our Lady, May 20, 1978

OATH
"Your once loyal to the oath of a doctor, your once loyal doctors are now butchers! For money they kill the young!" - Our Lady, February 10, 1978

WOE TO THE WOMAN
"Know, My child, this simple lesson, that in these days of the latter times, women will seek to cast off their role as mother and a woman. Women will cast it off under the direction of satan, and murder her children. Woe to the woman who does not repent of this vile abomination! She has walked the road to eternal damnation and hell. Repent, O woman, or forever be lost!" - Our Lady, March 18, 1975

References:

[1] Pope John Paul II, on receiving the credentials of Lindy Boggs as Ambassador of the United States to the Holy See, December 16, 1997.
[2] Pope John Paul II, encyclical Evangelium Vitae, #62.
[3] “Declaration on Procured Abortion,” Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, November 18, 1974, #22.
[4] Pope John Paul II, encyclical Evangelium Vitae, #62.
[5] “Whoever is not with Me is against Me,” The Catholic Sentinel, Archbishop William J. Levada, June 2, 1995.
[6] “Doctrinal Note on some questions regarding The Participation of Catholics in Political Life,” January 2003.
[7] “Catholics Attack Kerry on Abortion Stance,” Associated Press, February 6, 2004.
[8] Robert H. Bork, Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline, pp. 280-281.
[9] Pope John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae, #71.
[10] Grace D. MacKinnon, “Is Voting Pro-Choice a Mortal Sin?”
[11] “John Kerry--A new Kennedy? Bishops react,” National Catholic Register, February 15-21, 2004.
[12] Tom Bethell, "Not just any Catholic," BeliefNet.
[13] Barbara Kralis, “Is the Church Serving Two Masters - Politicians and God?”
[14] Fr. Heribert Jone, Moral Theology, p.131.
[15] Fr. Matthew Habiger, HLI, “Sin to vote for pro-abortion politicians?”
[16] Fr. Stephen F. Turraco, “Moral duties concerning voting,” http://www.ewtn.com/vote/brief_catechism.htm
[17] quoted in Robert H. Bork, Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline, p. 280; see Stanley K. Henshaw and Jane Silverman, “The Characteristics and Prior Contraceptive Use of U.S. Abortion Patients,” Family Planning Perspective, July/August 1988, pp. 158, 162.

[18] Leon J. Podles, “Editorial: Voting as Christians,” Touchstone magazine, April 2003, Vol. 16, issue 3.
[19] October 17, 2000.
[20] “Doctrinal Note on some questions regarding The Participation of Catholics in Political Life,” January 2003.

Your names have been written in Heaven… "It is not by accident that you are called by My Mother, for your names have been written in Heaven.... But with this great grace you have great responsibility to send this Message from Heaven throughout the world, for if you are able to recover just one more for Heaven, an additional star shall be placed in your crown." - Jesus, August 5, 1975

A great obligation to go forward... "It is not by accident that you are called by My Mother, for it is by merit and the prayers that have risen to Heaven for your salvation. For those who have received the grace to hear the Message from Heaven, you have a great obligation to go forward and bring this Message to your brothers and sisters. Do not expect a rest upon your earth, for you will have eternal rest very soon." - Jesus, June 12, 1976

The sin of omission... "The sin of omission shall condemn many to hell, be they layman or Hierarchy. I repeat: not the sin of commission, but the sin of omission will commit many to hell." Our Lady of the Roses, October 6, 1980

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