Cathedral sendoff for a pro-abortion politician
On Monday, March 27, Cardinal Mahony's Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels was the site of a large funeral for a pro-abortion Latino politician. He was Democrat former Assemblyman Marco Antonio Firebaugh, 39, who was running for a State Senate seat until influenza and an unspecified liver disease claimed his life.
The L.A. Times reported Tuesday that "about 2,000" attended the funeral, including prominent pro-abortion politicians such as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and L.A. County Supervisor Gloria Molina.
A Times photo shows "a church worker" as he "sets up a photo" of Mr. Firebaugh.
A Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California "Pro-Choice Scorecard" for 2004 (click on the title of this post to see it) listed Mr. Firebaugh as "100% pro-choice."
We should pray for the repose of Mr. Firebaugh's soul, of course, but what message does a high-profile Cathedral funeral for him send Catholics and the rest of the general public?
The L.A. Times reported Tuesday that "about 2,000" attended the funeral, including prominent pro-abortion politicians such as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and L.A. County Supervisor Gloria Molina.
A Times photo shows "a church worker" as he "sets up a photo" of Mr. Firebaugh.
A Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California "Pro-Choice Scorecard" for 2004 (click on the title of this post to see it) listed Mr. Firebaugh as "100% pro-choice."
We should pray for the repose of Mr. Firebaugh's soul, of course, but what message does a high-profile Cathedral funeral for him send Catholics and the rest of the general public?
posted by Quintero at 10:54 PM
15 Comments:
have we forgotten to 'judge not lest we be judged'?
Silence only helps the oppressor never the oppressed.
Quote taken from Priests for Lifes' Pro-life Rosary
Also, there is a gay website that lists gay friendly parishes in LA County. There were about a half dozen and one was in Whittier, with a Marian name (I dont recall exactly). Anyways this same parish was featured in a 2 page layout of last weeks Tidings with a prominent picture of a redemptorist clergy presiding.
Is there a method to this madness? These gay/pro aborts seem to be in lockstep with the Archdiocese.
"have we forgotten to 'judge not lest we be judged'?"
This statement is growing old and is a tactic for use in trying to shut others up and/or put them on a guilt trip. Anonymous might want to study the meaning of "judging."
Maybe I missed it, but I don't recall seeing anywhere, the final judgment on anyone's soul! Facts were presented and a request to pray for a departed soul, which we should do for anyone who dies, is all I read.
I guess anonymous would have every person that dies loaded into a "liturgical canon" and shot into Heaven.
You do great work in exposing Mahony
The quote of judge not is always used because it is a poor translation. A better translation is condemn not that you may not be condemned. This understanding is, of course, inconvenient and cannot be used to shut up faithful to the Magisterium Catholics.
For anonymous:
Please read 1 Ephesians 5
http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/1corinthians/1corinthians5.htm
Dear Anonymous 10:57 a.m.,
As our fellow commenting friends have kindly pointed out, my post does not judge the deceased.
We do not know the state of anyone's soul. All we know is what he DID. This man was "100% pro-choice" in the eyes of the Planned Hell abortion empire.
I did not say the man should not get a Catholic funeral. It is just that the most prominent church in the whole Archdiocese was a bad location, because of the danger of misleading and confusing the faithful and the general public.
Remember, before the Cathedral was ever built Cardinal Mahony said it was too bad he did not have a big cathedral, because the funeral of L.A. Mayor Tom Bradley could have been held there -- never mind that Bradley was not Catholic and on top of that was pro-abortion.
Keep it up, Quintero. Your work is much appreciated.
Sounds like anonymous could be the part of the Mahoney Baloney regime. I pray Pope Benedict XVI will straighten this out.
Also we could lump NPM into the mix...Been to there conferences and I swear it was a pink triangle production...some much talk of justice, peace....people of God....but they forgot one mention...errr, SIN. now we can't have that... Might make us feel back in the new Prozac Church.
We must pray and Fast for the Church.
Light of Christ, shine in the darkness! Amen.
How many pro-choicers are comfortable with God have a choice to make at the final judgment?
Looks like there is good work going on out there on the West Coast ... this Bostonian will be with you in spirit.
Dear Thomas Shawn,
Thank you very much, and we out here will keep you and Boston in our prayers. God bless!
Forgive me if I seem just a little naive, or perhaps even unsophisticated, but it was my understanding that the Catholic Church (and it seems to me that the Cathedral as the mother Church of the Archdiocese ought to exemplify this best) provides funeral services for only one category of Catholics.
Sinners.
Or am I wrong?
Dear Anonymous Said,
Sure, we are all sinners. But I did not say he should be denied a Catholic funeral, only that the Cathedral was a bad venue for it.
Yet if we really believe, as the Church teaches and science tells us, that our preborn babies are as fully human as us "postborns," then is it far-fetched to say that Catholic funerals for politicians who facilitate all those baby deaths might create scandal and might mislead the faithful?
You have to admit that bishops can and sometimes do deny a Catholic funeral to a Mafia member, for example. Should mobsters get Cathedral funerals?
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