Pro-Abort John Dingell Gets Catholic Funeral at Church of the Divine Child in Dearborn, MI

Monday, February 11, 2019

Pro-Abort John Dingell Gets Catholic Funeral at Church of the Divine Child in Dearborn, MI

by Anita Carey • ChurchMilitant.com • February 11, 2019

Funeral to take place at Church of the Divine Child in Dearborn, MI

DEARBORN, Mich. (ChurchMilitant.com) - Catholics are outraged another pro-choice politician will be given a Catholic funeral.

Throughout John Dingell's nearly six decades serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, his many and varied achievements would have to include his support to advance the Culture of Death by pushing contraception, abortion pills for rape victims and using embryos for research.

In 2006, before he retired, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) rated Dingell as having a "pro-choice stance" with a score of 0 percent.

He died from prostate cancer on Thursday, and despite his public record, a public funeral Mass will be held on Tuesday at the Church of the Divine Child in Dearborn, Michigan.

Church Militant was contacted by a number of Catholics that are wondering why a Catholic funeral Mass is being held for him.

"Catholics cannot vote to kill unborn children," one said. "Since when do Democrats not have to follow the Fifth Commandment and then still be able to have a huge funeral Mass, full of accolades for his abominable voting record?"

This situation is not unlike Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy's funeral in 2009. Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley presided at Kennedy's funeral Mass. Catholics that were outraged over the praise for him were called divisive.

In a blog post, Cdl. O'Malley addressed the controversy by saying, "The Senator's wake and Catholic funeral were controversial because of the fact that he did not publically support Catholic teaching and advocacy on behalf of the unborn."

He continued, saying, "There is a tragic sense of lost opportunity is his lack of support for the unborn" but he disagreed, "in the strongest terms" with those who objected to Kennedy having a Catholic funeral.

"We must show those who do not share our belief about life that we care about them," he said.

"We will stop the practice of abortion by changing the law, and we will be successful in changing the law if we change people's hearts," Cdl. O'Malley said. "We will not change hearts by turning away from people in their time of need and when they are experiencing grief and loss."

In an email to LifeSiteNews, Fr. Brian Harrison disagreed with Kennedy having a Catholic funeral, saying, "It was a Mass I regard as a scandal comparable to, if not worse than, the scandal given several months ago when the nation's most prestigious 'Catholic' university bestowed an honorary doctorate upon Barack Hussein Obama, the most pro-abortion and 'pro-gay' president in U.S. history."

The Catholic Code of Canon Law actually forbids funerals for public sinners. Canon 1184 states, "Unless they gave some signs of repentance before death, the following must be deprived of ecclesiastical funerals: notorious apostates, heretics and schismatics; other manifest sinners who cannot be granted ecclesiastical funerals without public scandal of the faithful."

In Dingell's "My last words for America," he chose to bash Trump as a bully and grandstand about the political achievements made during his tenure — Medicare, protections for the Great Lakes and civil rights.

"I'm immensely proud, and eternally grateful, for having had the opportunity to play a part in all of these efforts during my service in Congress," he wrote.

Absent from the list of achievements is his record of blocking abortion restrictions, advancing embryonic stem cell research and his decade-long fight to get federal funding for contraception.

He voted along Democratic Party lines around 90 percent of the time.Tweet

Many media reports are calling him "anti-abortion," citing a 30 percent rating from NARAL.

Prior to 2003, Dingell had a mixed record, voting to ban the partial-birth abortion procedure twice, but both times the law contained exceptions for the health of the mother.

He also voted to ban human cloning, and in 1999, he voted to make it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines to get an abortion — an issue he later reversed his stance on.

Later in his career, his support for morality waivered. Ballotpedia reported that he voted along Democratic Party lines around 90 percent of the time.

Before he retired in 2015, he voted against the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act that would have banned abortions after the unborn child was developed enough to feel the pain of it being killed.

The first of Dingell's two Catholic funeral Masses will be held on Tuesday, at 11 a.m. at the Church of the Divine Child in Dearborn. Former Vice President Joe Biden, along with Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) and Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) will be speaking.

The second funeral Mass will be held at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Washington, D.C. before he is laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery. Former President Bill Clinton will be speaking there.

Church Militant reached out for comment from the archdiocese of Detroit but has not heard back by press time.

Apostate Jim Bilot is usurping the Church of the Divine Child and his Associate accomplice

Matthew Hood.

The apostates Jesuits thar usurp the Holy Trinity Church are C. Kevin Gillespie, Paul Campbell, Benjamin Hawley,William Kelley and Tim O'Brien

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Our Lord having reproached the Jews with blindness, they might have said, We are not blind, but we avoid you as a deceiver. Our Lord therefore gives the marks which distinguish a robber and deceiver from a true shepherd. First come those of the deceiver and robber: Verily, verily, I say to you, He that enters not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. There is an allusion here to Antichrist, and to certain false Christs who had been, and were to be. The Scriptures He calls the door. They admit us to the knowledge of God, they protect the sheep, they shut out the wolves, they bar the entrance to heretics. He that uses not the Scriptures, but climbs up some other way, i.e. some self-chosen, some unlawful way, is a thief. Climbs up, He says, not, enters, as if it were a thief getting over a wall, and running all risks. Some other way, may refer too to the commandments and traditions of men which the Scribes taught, to the neglect of the Law. When our Lord further on calls Himself the Door, we need not be surprised. According to the office which He bears, He is in one place the Shepherd, in another the Sheep. In that He introduces us to the Father, He is the Door, in that He takes care of us, He is the Shepherd. (Catena Aurea)

LIBERTAS ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII ON THE NATURE OF HUMAN LIBERTY
35. And as to tolerance, it is surprising how far removed from the equity and prudence of the Church are those who profess what is called liberalism. For, in allowing that boundless license of which We have spoken, they exceed all limits, and end at last by making no apparent distinction between truth and error, honesty and dishonesty. And because the Church, the pillar and ground of truth, and the unerring teacher of morals, is forced utterly to reprobate and condemn tolerance of such an abandoned and criminal character, they calumniate her as being wanting in patience and gentleness, and thus fail to see that, in so doing, they impute to her as a fault what is in reality a matter for commendation. But, in spite of all this show of tolerance, it very often happens that, while they profess themselves ready to lavish liberty on all in the greatest profusion, they are utterly intolerant toward the Catholic Church, by refusing to allow her the liberty of being herself free.

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St. Vincent Ferrer -- Sermon on the Last Judgment: In the same way, in the time of Antichrist, the Sun of justice will be obscured by the interposition of temporal goods and the wealth which Antichrist will bestow on the world, inasmuch as the brightness of faith in Jesus Christ and the glow of good lives will no longer shine among Christians. For, lest they should lose their dominion, temporal rulers, kings and princes will range themselves on the side of Antichrist. In like manner, prelates for fear of losing their dignities, and religious and priests to gain honors and riches, will forsake the Faith of Christ and adhere to Antichrist.

Neither living nor lifeless faith remains in a heretic who disbelieves one article of faith. The reason of this is that the species of every habit depends on the formal aspect of the object, without which the species of the habit cannot remain. Now the formal object of faith is the First Truth, as manifested in Holy Writ and the teaching of the Church, which proceeds from the First Truth. Consequently whoever does not adhere, as to an infallible and Divine rule, to the teaching of the Church, which proceeds from the First Truth manifested in Holy Writ, has not the habit of faith, but holds that which is of faith otherwise than by faith. Even so, it is evident that a man whose mind holds a conclusion without knowing how it is proved, has not scientific knowledge, but merely an opinion about it. Now it is manifest that he who adheres to the teaching of the Church, as to an infallible rule, assents to whatever the Church teaches; otherwise, if, of the things taught by the Church, he holds what he chooses to hold, and rejects what he chooses to reject, he no longer adheres to the teaching of the Church as to an infallible rule, but to his own will. Hence it is evident that a heretic who obstinately disbelieves one article of faith, is not prepared to follow the teaching of the Church in all things; but if he is not obstinate, he is no longer in heresy but only in error. Therefore it is clear that such a heretic with regard to one article has no faith in the other articles, but only a kind of opinion in accordance with his own will. (Saint Thomas Aquinas. Summa Theologica, II-II, q. 5, a. 3)

Monday, February 11, 2019