Can someone be catholic and prochoice?

Question

I recently read a bumper sticker that said "You can't be catholic and prochoice" but it looked like who ever it was put some thing over the sticker to make it say can't. So that got me wondering if anyone was catholic and prochoice.

Answer 1

Someone can be a misguided Catholic and “pro-choice.”

This is especially harmful when they are people of influence like politicians, who because of their influence may unduly direct others toward "the culture of death" instead of the "consistent ethic of life."

Politically supporting abortion is not a offense for which one can be excommunicated.

The Church law involved is Canon 915: Those who are excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' statement "Catholics in Political Life" says:

Therefore, like every Catholic generation before us, we must be guided by the words of St. Paul, “Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the Body and Blood of the Lord” (1 Cor 11:27).

And continues that it is up to each Bishop in their diocese and on a case by case basis to decide whether or not to deny Holy Communion to Catholic politicians because of their public support of abortion.

Here is the complete document: http://www.usccb.org/bishops/catholicsinpoliticallife.shtml

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

I have seen that sticker before. In the nicest way possible, the answer is no. To be actively pro-choice, is to be out of communion with Christ and his bride, the Church. Please see the Declaration of the Pope that abortion is intrinsically evil, and also read the link in the source.

Remember, that sitting in a pew on Sunday is not what makes you Catholic, but being in Communion with Christ and his Church.

A person can be Catholic, have been baptized Catholic, have been confirmed Catholic, and say they are Catholic, but still be outside of Communion with the church.

Thus, in 1995 Pope John Paul II declared that the Church’s teaching on abortion "is unchanged and unchangeable. Therefore, by the authority which Christ conferred upon Peter and his successors . . . I declare that direct abortion, that is, abortion willed as an end or as a means, always constitutes a grave moral disorder, since it is the deliberate killing of an innocent human being. This doctrine is based upon the natural law and upon the written word of God, is transmitted by the Church’s tradition and taught by the ordinary and universal magisterium. No circumstance, no purpose, no law whatsoever can ever make licit an act which is intrinsically illicit, since it is contrary to the law of God which is written in every human heart, knowable by reason itself, and proclaimed by the Church"

Answer 3

regrettably the Catholic Church's doctrine does no longer help both condition. Abortion is in consumer-friendly words an option if there is forthcoming risk to the mum's life and gay marriage isn't an option by way of any ability. The church counsels abstinence for gay parishioners as homosexuality is forbidden. i myself locate myself to be a more effective liberal Catholic. even as i do no longer help abortion as one of those birth control I do locate that there would nicely be circumstances that could help the choose. and that i do no longer locate gay marriage offensive. i don't believe being gay is a "determination". If God has a objective for us all then it truly is likewise for a reason. each human being has to seek their moral experience and locate their own direction to peace. So i think that sure you may have more effective liberal perspectives and nonetheless be Catholic.

Answer 4

You can be anything and anything else. No law against that. Except you can be present and absent at the same time.

Answer 5

yes, theres nothing wrong with it.