A Catholic nun, Sister Simone Campbell, has broken away from the Church’s teaching concerning the wickedness and vile evil that is child murder — also called abortion — during the first “Catholics for Harris” virtual meeting that was held this past week. The whole point of the event was to try and make Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, look better, casting her in a more positive, favorable light. You see, abortion is the one issue that Harris seems to be passionate about and is the only one she can articulate what she feels and thinks about it without the old “mumble-stumble” that turns her speeches into word salads.
However, disturbingly, Harris, who has been asked over and over again, has not revealed whether or not she believes in placing any sort of restrictions on the procedure. A refusal to answer could, in and of itself, be the answer. Harris could support abortion without restriction, which means a pregnant woman could abort her child up to the time of birth.
“Our Catholic faith doesn’t require the outlaw of abortion … it’s about protecting life at all stages. We must trust people’s conscience,” the nun stated during the Zoom call last Wednesday, in what seems to be an attempt to compare issues such as immigration and housing with the murder of an unborn child.
"Our Catholic faith doesn't require the outlaw of abortion. It's about protecting life at all stages. We must trust people's conscience in difficult situations." — @sr_simone pic.twitter.com/I1S9OnJLRg
— Catholics for Harris (@Catholic4Harris) September 19, 2024
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The Catholic Church has always taught that abortion is intrinsically evil as it ends the life of an innocent child. It is also considered one of the four sins that cry to heaven for vengeance. Clergy the world over have routinely instructed the faithful that abortion is a “preeminent” voting issue. Political operative Alex Nason emceed the event, which was scheduled weeks ago but delayed. Other than Campbell, who rose to fame after organizing the infamous “Nuns on the Bus” tours that pushed Democratic talking points during the 2010s, several other high-profile persons spoke as well, including Joe Donnelly, Barack Obama’s ambassador to the Holy See.
Professor and MSNBC commentator Anthea Butler and pro-abortion Connecticut Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, who told viewers that her “faith leads me to support Kamala Harris,” also appeared. DeLauro has ties to communist groups in the U.S.
According to Catholic News Agency, the call was organized by the Harris campaign in conjunction with Catholics Vote Common Good, a non-profit backed by the Vote Common Good organization. An X account called “Catholics for Harris” that was launched in July is also involved with the larger push for getting Catholic voters to support the pro-LGBT Harris. The group seems to have been founded by Christopher Hale, a former Obama official who was named executive director of the George Soros-backed Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good in 2013, but later resigned in disgrace over allegations of financial malfeasance. He unsuccessfully ran for Congress as a self-described “pro-life Democrat” in 2020.
Butler, who holds a teaching position at the University of Pennsylvania, repeated a number of claims during the call that have been pushed by liberals over and over again this election cycle, despite being debunked on multiple occasions.
Harris had made it clear she’s not a fan of pro-life Catholics, having put them in her proverbial crosshairs many times while in public office. While she was serving as Attorney General of California, Harris ordered local law enforcement officers to execute a raid on David Daleiden, a journalist specializing in pro-life issues. While serving as a U.S. senator, she launched an attack on a Trump nominee for being part of the Catholic organization, The Knights of Columbus. She also voted against a bill that would make it necessary for medical care to be given to children who survived the abortion procedure, which, believe it or not, is something people are actually against. Which, in my mind, means that they are in favor of murder.
Other participants on the call gave standard talking points about how Trump would not care for migrants and that he is opposed to the working class, though such a claim seems to be belied by the fact that the Teamsters Union did not endorse the Democratic presidential candidate this election cycle, the first time in its history. Most of the group’s members are planning on voting for Trump.
In 2016, Campbell, who leads the Network Lobby for Catholic Social Justice, called a major pro-abortion leader’s retelling of her own abortion story at that year’s Democratic National Convention “touching and compelling” while stating “I don’t think it’s a good policy to outlaw abortion.” Cecile Richards, former president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, had been on the Network’s Board of Trustees since 2010. It has also received grants totaling more than $300,000 from the radical Ford Foundation.
In 2020, Campbell along with pro-LGBT priest Fr. James Martinled prayers at the DNC. She told Catholic media that the question of whether abortion should be opposed is above her “pay grade.” The Trump campaign announced earlier this month that it was relaunching the Catholics for Trump coalition that helped garner Catholic support for him in 2020. Trump was scheduled to appear at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown, Pennsylvania this weekend, but those plans have been canceled.
If you’re a faithful Catholic who really believes the Church’s teaching, there’s no way you should be in favor of abortion practices, nor should you be mocking anything to do with stopping such wicked acts of violence against the world’s most vulnerable individuals.
Let’s hope the Church disciplines her for stepping out of line with the gospel of Christ and the teaching of the Church.