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Offline Kolar

Fr Taouk on voting
« on: May 13, 2019, 06:31:39 AM »
In the Parish bulletin for the 2nd Sunday after Easter Fr. Taouk said there is a grave obligation to vote. It is a mortal sin not to vote. https://sspx.com.au/sites/sspx/files/media/second-sunday-after-easter-oxley.pdf He tells us that we cannot vote for Labor by name.
On the 3rd Sunday after Easter Fr. Taouk backtracks saying that the duty to vote may be light matter. https://sspx.com.au/sites/sspx/files/media/third-sunday-after-easter-oxley.pdf Without naming Liberal he tells us we must vote for this evil party because it is a lesser evil. We should not vote for a good candidate who has no chance of winning. Our vote must be a negative vote against the more evil party.

Fr. Taouk essentially says do evil that good may come of it. In this case the good is uncertain. The Liberals brought in “gαy marriage.”



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Re: Fr Taouk on voting
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2019, 06:49:28 AM »
In that case, Fr. Taouk would stand condemned by these old SSPX.org articles regarding Catholic principles on voting (the very first sentence of which would indict him as a liberal and modernist):

http://archives.sspx.org/miscellaneous/catholic_principles_for_voting.htm
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Offline Last Tradhican

Re: Fr Taouk on voting
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2019, 10:29:35 AM »
I repeat here what I wrote a few days ago on another thread about Fr. Taouk:


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Years ago while he was a seminarian (or a just newly ordained priest), Fr. Taouk was chosen by the SSPX to write an article defending the notion of salvation of the non-baptized peoples, which the SSPX published in the Angelus as their "icon of doctrine".  

It is no surprise to me that he would say modesty had "nothing to do with what we wear", it is just another outward manifestation that he is a blind guide.

All I can say to priests like that is: Thanks for the warning. I say it all the time about "Pope" Frank.





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Änσnymσus

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Re: Fr Taouk on voting
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2019, 01:32:04 PM »
You know how some people still attend the SSPX, and they tell us "he preaches good sermons", "he still criticizes Vatican II", or "he's one of the good ones"?

Fr. Taouk is one of the bad ones. Rabidly pro-accord with Modern Rome, smears the Resistance, etc. He puts his emotions into it too.

Matthew
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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: Fr Taouk on voting
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2019, 01:36:04 PM »
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Voting in local and national elections can only be considered a moral obligation when the candidates propose a solidly Catholic, non-liberal platform that truly promotes the Social Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ. It is not obligatory to vote for a lesser evil, but simply prudent and permissible.

... from the aforementioned SSPX article.

They truly need to discard "lesser evil" language.  It's inherently anti-Catholic.  One of the core tenets of Catholic morality ... which sets it aside from all others ... is that the end never justifies the means.  You cannot ever do an evil in order to prevent another evil (even if the second one is much greater).

There are principles of "double effect" which might come into play, but they needed to be articulated properly without undermining all of Catholic moral theology in adopting "lesser evil" language.
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