Noted Catholic theologian and advocate Peter Kreeft claims that Catholics who support a woman’s right to choose are worse than the Catholic Church’s pedophile priests and are “straight from the devil.” Kreeft, author of dozens of books on Catholic and Christian theology and conservatism
“These were wicked people. These were dishonest people. These were people who, frankly, loved power more than they loved God,” Kreeft said of Catholics who supposedly convinced the Kennedys they could support a woman’s right to choose, according to a report in the Wisconsin State Journal.
“Sorry, that’s just the way it is. In fact, I’d say these were even worse than the child molesters — though the immediate damage they did was not as obvious — because they did it deliberately, it wasn’t a sin of weakness. Sins of power are worse than sins of weakness. Cold, calculating sins — that’s straight from the devil.”
There is no middle ground to Kreeft. It would be silly and redundant to him, for instance, to call someone a “pro-life Catholic.” You cannot be anything but against abortion to be a Catholic, Kreeft said.
“To be a Catholic is to take the whole deal,” he told the crowd.
Kreeft said several definitions of a liberal can and should fit Catholics, including “someone who is generous and unselfish” and “someone who highly values liberty and freedom.”
On abortion, Kreeft contended Catholics are the “true liberals,” because a liberal wants to extend liberty to the oppressed, and “the unborn are the most oppressed,” he said.
Yet, in the political realm, the term liberal has been hijacked by abortion rights activists, Kreeft said. “A Catholic cannot be today what is called a liberal about abortion. That’s obvious. That’s a ‘duh.'”
Kreeft mentioned other issues, such as homosexual marriage and euthanasia, that he said Catholics cannot take politically liberal positions on, yet he focused most on abortion.
Kreeft reportedly received a standing ovation.
Just recently, another noted Catholic advocate, Daniel Avila, the Catholic Church’s self-​professed “bishops’ marriage guy,†was forced to resign for claiming gays are made by the devil in the mother’s womb.