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Financial Assistance requested
(a non-profit organization) Post Office Box 850307 Mobile, Alabama 36685-0307 Phone/FAX: (334) 639-7456 April 14, 1995 Most Rev. Richard J. Sklba Response to your letter of September 15, 1994. Dear Bishop Sklba, Your assertion may well be correct but is valueless. It wrongly assumes that taking the lives of active abortion providers, who almost every day of the week butcher numerous innocent human beings, is an evil. If you were a complete pacifist such as are the Mennonites your position might border on acceptability. If your mother is alive would you protect her from being butchered by killing the murderer if necessary? If you have siblings, or close friends, or see children in a school yard being slaughtered would you defend them (even if the only way you could do so would be to kill the murderer and her accomplices)? Your position is totally irrational if you accept the Catholic Church teaching that all life from the moment of conception must be respected and protected by necessary means which are reasonably available. The church and the world have been slowly accepting butchery by abortion over a period of centuries. The comparison is analogous to a frog being placed into slightly warm water which is then very slowly brought to a boil. It dies because there was no easily discernable change in temperature to warn it of pending doom. Most church members, including most clergy, are in implicit public denial of the existence of body, soul, and spirit of each person from the moment of conception. God the Father is actively involved with human life from the moment of conception. It is becoming more obvious to ever increasing numbers of sincere people that the bishops of the church are morally corrupt. For liberal clergy, faith has come to be defined in terms of liturgical practices. In this sense you are no different than those who became focused on the traditional Latin Mass following Vatican Council II. To destroy evil people actively committing the greatest of evil acts can in no sense of the word be called evil. No bishop and no theologian, nor any one else for that matter, has ever been able to present a true Church teaching, or position from sound reasoning, which supports your contention. In either case the gates of Heaven will remain closed against you unless you change your ways, sincerely repent, and become publicly active in opposition to abortion. Jesus, using different words, expressed the same position in regard to the chief priest, priests, scribes, etc. of His day. You are no different than they because of your out of faith focus and closed minds to God the Creator's truth. I recently ran across your letter in a stack of unanswered mail and have been inspired to write on this special day. Today, Good Friday, is the day Jesus was put to death because of the acts of men such as yourself. I pray that you accept these words of admonishment before it becomes too late to repent. Because of the indifference of bishops and clergy who refuse to do anything other than give lip service to the evil of abortion, over thirty million people in this nation are generally accepted to have been legally killed (murdered). The culpability does not end there. A group called Pharmacists for Life states that for every "therapeutic" abortion there are at least ten other abortions induced by means of the contraceptive pill, the IUD, and other ill gotten means of chemical or mechanical destruction. Because of denial, or worse, indifference, the vast majority of the bishops of the world will be judged as accomplices to all of these murders on the day of their final judgement. God does not accept excuses from those who should have known better. All such will be found guilty. Note: The total number of people murdered by abortion through chemical means, mechanical means, by medical and other practitioners, by relatives, etc. may well exceed the combined total of born people from the time of Adam and Eve to the present day. John Paul has made bold proclamations. But, in reality, he has done little to put a stop to abortion. He could have done much, but has done little. I look forward to your response, by phone if you prefer. Sincerely in Christ,
P.S.1 The tradition of the Church is to defend the oppressed. P.S.2 Enclosure: Partial list of available writings.  Editor
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