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Showing Original Post only (View all)I had tough talk with my mother today. [View all]
She was telling me, about the sermon our priest had at mass yesterday. To cut to the chase, he more or less said "if you vote for Hillary, you are committing a mortal sin and that person would never be able to receive communion again". He went on to say that "since Hillary was for abortion is a sin also". Now, since I am a vowed Catholic, I feel that our priest is wrong for trying influence his parishioners and how to vote. I understand there a many sticky issues here, although for a clergy member should never instruct someone how to vote and never use the churches' beliefs against the parishioner's vote. I believe abortion is morally wrong, but it is not my place to tell a woman what is morally right or wrong. I made my choice and so did my mother, we early voted for Hillary. Since yesterday, my mother has struggled with her choice. I told her that I thought the priest was wrong for saying what he did and that her vote was not a sin. She will be 80 years old in little over a month and I fear that she will be scared from here on. I also struggle with what is morally right or wrong in what I do, but what I feel my final decision is what is in my heart and I believe God knows what I do right or wrong, in which I will have to answer to Him.