Priest specifically prayed during Sunday mass for Roe v. Wade to be overturned

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It struck me as a little odd - at the 5:30 p.m. mass on Sunday Aug. 19, at the Catholic church 'Mission San Diego de Alcalá' (the first of California's string of 21 missions) the priest speficially said a prayer that Roe v. Wade be overturned. During the "general intercessions" portion about halfway through the mass, where a litany of prayer requests is recited by a lector, including names of parishoners who are sick or have died, and so forth - the priest added an intercession of his own and specifically prayed out loud to the congregation that Roe v. Wade be overturned. This is the first time I have ever heard a priest openly pray for that explicity during mass... and I have been going off an on for 40 years (although I only go now to take my 88-year-old mother to mass, and I just sit there next to her and don't say anything or participate). It struck me as odd - I have often heard general prayers for the "rights of the pre-born" as they call it now, but never an explicit prayer thar R v W be overturned.

[TahitiNut]

1. I'd put a receipt for a donation to Planned Parenthood in the collection plate.

:evilgrin:

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2. Very good - I could put anything in one of those anonymous little envelopes.

I thought of writing a note about it, but I like your idea better.

[walldude]

3. Maybe next week they'll pray to get health care to kids who

are already out of the womb... Oh wait, what am I thinking, once you are out you need to pull yourself up by your wittle booties.

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4. They always say that whatever happens is "God's will." It's "God's will" that some people suffer.

[Kagemusha]

5. It's not the first time I've heard of this... but only pretty recently

I mean, like, only in the last year or so.. as Catholics go.

But it seems to be propagating.