{"id":1217770,"date":"2022-01-15T10:19:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T15:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1217770"},"modified":"2022-01-15T10:19:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T15:19:51","slug":"texas-bishop-new-jerseys-pro-abortion-governor-not-a-good-catholic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-bishop-new-jerseys-pro-abortion-governor-not-a-good-catholic\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bishop: New Jersey\u2019s Pro-Abortion Governor \u2018Not a Good Catholic\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftexas-bishop-new-jerseys-pro-abortion-governor-not-a-good-catholic%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1217770&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler Texas said Friday that New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has caved to the culture of death and should stop claiming to be a \u201cgood Catholic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Strickland was responding to a <a href=\"https:\/\/nj1015.com\/how-murphy-squares-being-catholic-with-signing-nj-abortion-law\/\">statement<\/a> by Gov. Murphy in which he insists that a \u201cgood Catholic\u201d can be pro-abortion, citing Jesuit Father Pat Conroy, the former chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives, who made this same <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/05\/prominent-jesuit-priest-good-catholics-pro-choice\/\">argument<\/a> recently in the <em>Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cNo Phil you are not a good Catholic,\u201d the bishop <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bishopoftyler\/status\/1482222313529647104?s=27\">wrote<\/a> on Twitter. \u201cPlease acknowledge that you have bowed to the culture of death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no defense for wanton destruction of life,\u201d Strickland continued. \u201cWe must all pray for you &amp; all who have succumbed to your delusion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his statement, Murphy insisted that his personal faith should not be used to \u201cdeny services\u201d to women seeking an abortion.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cLast week, Rev. Pat Conroy, a Jesuit priest who served as chaplain for the House of Representatives for 10 years spoke to the <em>Washington Post<\/em> about being pro-choice and Catholic, as I am,\u201d the governor said. \u201cAnd he said, and I quote Father Conroy, \u2018A good Catholic in our system could be saying given women in our system have this constitutional right, our task as fellow Christians or as Catholics is to make it possible for her to optimize her ability to make the choice.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before signing the bill, Murphy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/faith\/2022\/01\/11\/new-jersey-gov-phil-murphy-vows-to-sign-bill-expanding-right-to-abortion-until-moment-of-birth\/\">praised<\/a> its passage, calling it \u201curgent\u201d to defend <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that made abortion on demand the law of the land.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA bill to codify a woman\u2019s right to choose into state law and expand access to reproductive health care for all just passed both houses of the Legislature,\u201d Murphy tweeted last Monday. \u201cWith&nbsp;<em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>&nbsp;under attack, the need for this bill is more urgent than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcan.org\/nj-bishops-statement-passage-freedom-reproductive-choice-act-law?fbclid=IwAR00ghb81ZZWypyqkpiP07PnDIs51RiyUdMFqnjfgbGaDFKH-ky-HhbMhpE\">statement<\/a> this week, the Catholic bishops of New Jersey condemned the bill, which enshrines in law a right to abortion up to birth.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17433242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/supreme-court-abortion-protest-on-demand-pro-life-filephoto-getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17433242\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/supreme-court-abortion-protest-on-demand-pro-life-filephoto-getty.jpg\" alt=\"(FILES) In this file photo Pro-choice and pro-life activists demonstrate in front of the the US Supreme Court during the 47th annual March for Life on January 24, 2020 in Washington, DC. - The United States&#039; Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear what may be its most significant case in decades on the controversial subject of abortion. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY \/ AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">OLIVIER DOULIERY\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This law departs from the fundamental understanding that \u201call life is sacred from conception to natural death,\u201d the bishops stated. \u201cEven more distressing is that the legal and ethical calculus that underlies this new legislation absolutely and forthrightly extinguishes the human and moral identity of the unborn child.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerhaps the legislators who rushed through this Act in the waning moments of their terms did not want citizens to understand fully its inhuman and lethal consequences,\u201d the bishops added.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tdwilliamsrome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @tdwilliamsrome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler Texas said Friday that New Jersey Gov. 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