Pastor gives his flock the truth

Maybe you've read about Father Jay Scott Newman (above), pastor of venerable St. Mary's Catholic Church in Greenville, South Carolina.

As CatholicNewsUSA reports (click on this post's title), Father Newman did his parishioners an inestimable, because soul-saving, favor last Sunday.

What was it? He gave them a letter that said, in part:

"Our nation has chosen for its chief executive the most radical pro-abortion politician ever to serve in the United States Senate or to run for president [Father was referrring to Barack Hussein Obama].

"Voting for a pro-abortion politician when a plausible pro-life alternative exists constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil, and those Catholics who do so place themselves outside of the full communion of Christ's Church and under the judgment of divine law. Persons in this condition should not receive Holy Communion until and unless they are reconciled to God in the Sacrament of Penance, lest they eat and drink their own condemnation."

As you can imagine, this has not gone down well with some Obama devotees. May they develop the humility to admit they have done wrong. (We all need to develop that humility!)

May Father Newman's bishop back him!

Why do so many Catholics not care about the little babies who are ripped apart? It is heartbreaking.

Incidentally, three years ago Father Newman wrote this beautiful essay on how priests should say Mass:

http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2005/11/worshipping-lord-in-beauty-of-holiness.html