Catholics Divided Over Prayer Breakfast Award for Barr
Sept 22, 2020 12:26:28 GMT -5
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Post by ruby on Sept 22, 2020 12:26:28 GMT -5
"Prominent Catholics who disagree that Barr deserves such an award are citing the federal government's decision to reinstate the federal death penalty, which is opposed by Pope Francis and the U.S. bishops, in July.
“I raise my voice in fervent opposition to the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast's scandalous offer of an award to Attorney General Barr for his ‘exemplary Christlike’ behavior,” tweeted Sister Helen Prejean. “I urge the group to immediately rescind their invitation, and I urge anyone reading this to join me.”
It is “unconscionable and scandalous that this recognition be given to William Barr who only two months ago reinstated the Federal death penalty after a 17-year discontinuance,” says the Rev. Michael Bryant, a Catholic priest and former prison chaplain. He notes that five men have already been executed and two more will be killed, one on the day before the breakfast and another on the day after.
The Catholic Mobilizing Network, which opposes the death penalty, has a petition that already has over 6,000 signers calling on Barr to “Stop the executions!”
The decision to give Barr the award is “shocking, incomprehensible, and scandalous,” according to the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests. “Executions are clearly not pro-life,” said the association. “Pope St. John Paul II judged such actions as ‘unnecessary.’ Pope Francis defined them as ‘inadmissible.’ That position of the Magisterium is now affirmed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.”
They also accused Barr of showing “disrespect for sacred space when he was party to a recent show of force to enable the President to use the grounds and building of an Episcopal Church in Lafayette Square to hold up a bible in front of the church as a prop for a political photo op.”
religionnews.com/2020/09/21/national-catholic-prayer-breakfast-barr-divides-catholics/?utm_source=spotim&utm_medium=spotim_recirculation
I had no idea he was a Catholic. Considering that he is Trump's enabler, I dislike him even more than before. The whole world is going crazy. Exemplary Christ-like behavior???? Barr????
“I raise my voice in fervent opposition to the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast's scandalous offer of an award to Attorney General Barr for his ‘exemplary Christlike’ behavior,” tweeted Sister Helen Prejean. “I urge the group to immediately rescind their invitation, and I urge anyone reading this to join me.”
It is “unconscionable and scandalous that this recognition be given to William Barr who only two months ago reinstated the Federal death penalty after a 17-year discontinuance,” says the Rev. Michael Bryant, a Catholic priest and former prison chaplain. He notes that five men have already been executed and two more will be killed, one on the day before the breakfast and another on the day after.
The Catholic Mobilizing Network, which opposes the death penalty, has a petition that already has over 6,000 signers calling on Barr to “Stop the executions!”
The decision to give Barr the award is “shocking, incomprehensible, and scandalous,” according to the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests. “Executions are clearly not pro-life,” said the association. “Pope St. John Paul II judged such actions as ‘unnecessary.’ Pope Francis defined them as ‘inadmissible.’ That position of the Magisterium is now affirmed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.”
They also accused Barr of showing “disrespect for sacred space when he was party to a recent show of force to enable the President to use the grounds and building of an Episcopal Church in Lafayette Square to hold up a bible in front of the church as a prop for a political photo op.”
religionnews.com/2020/09/21/national-catholic-prayer-breakfast-barr-divides-catholics/?utm_source=spotim&utm_medium=spotim_recirculation
I had no idea he was a Catholic. Considering that he is Trump's enabler, I dislike him even more than before. The whole world is going crazy. Exemplary Christ-like behavior???? Barr????
