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Words of Advice for Tim Kaine from the Late Bishop Patrick Ahern

July 25, 2016 by Gerard M. Nadal

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As a young college seminarian, I was out to dinner one night in the mid 1980’s with New York Auxiliary Bishop, Patrick Ahern. I questioned whether NY Governor Mario Cuomo was in a no-win position regarding abortion and his fight with Cardinal O’Connor. This wonderful old bishop walked me down the road of truth with grace and patience. His words about Cuomo apply equally to Kaine. So, Tim Kaine, here is a rebuke from beyond the grave of a true saint.

You are a hypocrite, and your every action in politics betrays your hypocrisy regarding abortion. All American citizens are free to work within our constitutional system to effect changes based upon their private beliefs. It matters not whether those beliefs arise from a religiously informed view, or the Natural Law embraced by our Founding Fathers.

As a governor, you have enjoyed a position most Americans could only dream of. You have been uniquely positioned to work from within the political establishment to effect change regarding abortion. What have you done?

Have you used the bully pulpit of the Governor to decry abortion?

Have you called for a Constitutional Amendment abolishing this barbarism that has claimed 60 million American lives, 20 million of whom were black?

How is it that you can be personally opposed to a procedure that tears a baby apart while alive, or scorches them with saline solution, and not seek to effect a change in our laws?

How can you be so personally opposed to abortion and remain so silent?

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Worse, how can you be so personally opposed and accept being the running mate for the most rabidly pro-abortion candidate in US history, save the current occupant of the White House?

In truth, you have done nothing to redeem your party, or yourself, to assuage the nation of the blood that flows like a river.

When you meet your God at the last, He will remind you of the words of St. James in chapter 2 of his New Testament letter:

What does it profit, my brethren, if a man says he has faith but has not works? Can his faith save him? If a brother or sister is ill-clad and in lack of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what does it profit? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead… You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.

 

And so it is with the faith of all such politicians who pay lip-service to their faith, while actively promoting the machinery of government that funds abortionists, funds abortion through Medicaid, forces churches to pay for abortion through health insurance, and worst of all…

Decries the other party for condemning abortion, accusing them of waging war on women. Where have you been, Governor?

In Matthew 25, Jesus tells us that the last words the damned will hear from Him are:

“For whenever you neglected to do this for the least of these, my brothers, you neglected to do it for me.”

If you will not hear it from your bishops, Governor Kaine, you had better heed the words of Jesus and James. No real Catholic can get away with such a vacuous argument on abortion.

A saintly bishop defeated that one thirty years ago.

 

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  1. on July 26, 2016 at 12:33 PM Jennifer Snell

    There is nothing more to add except – Amen.


  2. on August 3, 2016 at 12:06 AM Susan Dick

    Yes, I can only concur: Amen.


  3. on August 4, 2016 at 3:48 PM Beverly Bowne

    Bishop Ahern was my pastor when I joined Our Lady of Angels Parish in the Bronx. He was a wonderful person. Very Pro-Life! He’s probably turning over in his grave at the Catholic politicians who are for abortion rights.


  4. on August 8, 2016 at 6:30 PM Ellen Kolb

    A pro-Clinton ad added by WordPress at the end of your post this morning had me scratching my head. How does THAT ad-picking algorithm work?! I know it’s not something you control, and the ad has since rotated to one that’s totally nonpolitical.
    But as for the substance of your post, thank you. Bishop Ahern’s words are worth reflection.


  5. on October 7, 2016 at 9:44 AM Gerard M. Nadal

    Ellen, Go figure!!! I needed a good laugh this morning. 🙂 Thanks!


  6. on October 8, 2016 at 6:00 PM Karen Congema

    I am so excited to learn about you and your work for the unborn. There is hope!

    In Christ,

    Karen Congema



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