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Young Catholics For Choice

Bishop Slams Young Catholic Group Promoting Contraception, Birth Control

Glenview, IL (LifeNews.com) -- A group of young Catholics promoting a worldwide advertising campaign to push contraception "disown their Catholic heritage," according to an outspoken Catholic bishop who will soon become the bishop of Milwaukee. Young Catholics for Choice, part of the Washington, D.C.-based Catholics for Choice, has launched a television campaign in Wisconsin and has partnered with the Wisconsin Family Planning Health Services to promote condom use and the "morning after" pill. The national office has begun a web site with the theme, "Good Catholics Use Condoms." They plan is for ads to appear on bus shelters, subways, billboards and in newspapers around the world. "While people can call themselves whatever they want, it is my duty as a bishop to state clearly and unequivocally that by professing and disseminating views in grave contradiction to Catholic teaching, members of organizations like "Young Catholics for Choice" in fact disown their Catholic heritage, tragically distancing themselves from that communion with the Church to which they are called," said Bishop Listecki in a statement December 15. Bishop Listecki is an outspoken pro-life bishop, and in 2007 clashed with Catholics for Choice in opposing the Wisconsin legislature that supported a bill that would force Catholics hospitals to administer the morning after pill. The bill passed in 2008. Ref. LifeNews

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"Catholics for Choice" Runs Misleading Ad on Church, Sex

A recent ad run by Catholics for Choice merits acknowledgment for its extraordinarily clever mixture of truth and confusion. On the anniversary of Humanae vitae, the ad attempts to redefine Church teaching on condoms, and what it means to be a "good Catholic." Ref. Source 8