Can We Shop at Pro-Abortion Companies? 

I used to work for Disney and was concerned about this very question. Then they laid me off, so God took care of that! 😂

It’s so hard now a days to find any company that doesn’t support some level of evil

Thanks for explaing us about all these topics. I'm Catholic from Italy and I like your videos. Never give up.

Perfect timing with the National Pro-Life Summit happening right now

As an ethics professor at a seminary, I found this video very helpful! Even though I’m Baptist, I find much Catholic moral teaching to be very instructive.

Thanks for this. I have a followup question: To what extent are we responsible for investigating whether companies we buy from are complicit in evil? I know someone who struggles with scrupulosity around this. Given the immense complexity of large corporations and all their parent companies and subsidiaries, you can easily go down a serious rabbit hole trying to find ALL the possible exploitative and immoral practices your money might be supporting as a consumer.

Protestants and Catholics must stand together against the evil of abortion

Avoiding all of these companies would be impossible without completely upending your life and becoming a hunter/gatherer in the woods.

Father can you talk about Climate Change? Im Catholic and believe that we are hurting the environment with so much greed. We want to have many unnecessary material things that end up in the ocean or burned hurting nature. But many Catholics/Protestants think this is made up and evil. I dont understand why they dont see whats happening to nature😕

As someone who is accustomed to having what I want, when I want and how I want, doing without is going to be a hard pill for me to swallow. In the future, people who want to "enter by the narrow gate" are going to have some tough decisions to make. This is a wake up call.

Absolutely great discussion. I know fashion isn't your subject matter but I'd love to hear a Catholic perspective on fast fashion. We all need clothing appropriate to their life and work but we don't all actually need the kind of clothes the exploit workers, pollute the environment, and fill landfills.

This videos is exactly what I like to hear from Catholic priests. So clear and concise without mincing words. I believe it’s the Clergy’s job to help guide us Laypeople properly in Holier living. Please dive into more subject concerning good Catholic conduct and behavior in a falling world. Thank you Padre. Glory to God!!

I feel in certain cases abortion should be legal, if you’re 16 or younger, you can’t be able to take care of a child even if you did have a bad mistake.

As a Catholic teenager, I just love your videos!!!!

Very important topic. We should support and search for alternatives as much as possible

as a person w allergies i find the products i need at these abortion supported stores , just because they support something that might be wrong on somes eyes doesnt mean that the store is in the wrong ..i look for the good in the store such as hypoallergenic soap or bread or anything ,sometimes these are the only stores we can shop at esp in rural america ..

I am slowly getting away from corporations like that, especially that these companies are often very anti-privacy.

Being able to bear children is one of the highest responsabilities and greatest blessings. Before politics, before science, before literature, before anything - this is what we need to engrave in our soul. Responsibility, accountability and the sheer beauty of it. It is never something to be taken lightly ❤ Thank you for the video, Fr Casey.

I always got a bad feeling seeing or hearing about the amarican debate abaut abortion. First because it looks so much like double standard form me - America is one of the western countrys with the most death due to shootings and gun voilence, still got death penalty in many states, all of the five worldwide-biggest arms manufacturer siting in the US, or the handling of refugees. No of this is PRO Life, but there is somehow never talked about when it's about "pro-life" marches or else. Also like how little is the suport for young mothers and familys in the US, how big of an economcal risk for many woman in the US is it to get a child - something that is totally unreproducible form a german perspective across the ocean. It also is represented in the reasons young woman lists most when they get asked why they decide to take an abortion. A country so wealthy like the US doing so little for the people who needs thier suport - even in their own country - is something I'm not able to understand. As catholics we should stand on the side of the weak and suport them in their decision making "pro life" and not condemn them for the bad decision - THAT would realy save the life of babys and mothers. That would totally chance the discussion form "against each other" to "with each other". Isn't it love Christ calls us to and not condemnation? Who am I to tell a woman she have to be a mother to go through something I never have to experience? But I may be able to suport her to get to be a mother who sees herself able to bring a child to the world and care for it.

🇻🇦THERE'S ONLY 1 HOLY CATHOLIC & APOSTOLIC CHURCH🇻🇦

Thank you so much for making this topic clearer, Fr. Casey! This topic started making me feel quite anxious and a little discouraged. I'm still going to try to shop at more moral businesses when I can as I want to support their nobility and dedication to do good.

Well now I feel less bad for using Comcast Internet since it's the only game in town that's not expensive and unreliable satellite service (my wife needs the stable connection for her job), but I still don't feel good about it. I wish there was a way that more mom and pup businesses would be able to form or even price compete with these larger companies that do support abortion. In any case, another great video that's making me think about my life and actions and what I can do on my own to impact the situation and even a marginally positive way.

Father, thank you for this video. We are the dog that caught the car. We had 49 years to plan for what happened after the court overturned the Roe case. We failed. We have 400k+ in foster care, we have an additional 650k+ that are homeless and around 49 million that are hungry. The good news is that no one questions whether a Catholic can be president or hold 7 seats on the Supreme Court.

I've tried for years to stay away from Nestle. It seems like they own dang near everything. The only good thing I thought is that I usually cook from whole ingredients. But still I have no clue what goes on behind closed doors.. Years ago I signed up to to be the girl scout leader for the kindergarteners as the leader had left. & my daughter was going into kindergarten. I thought that would be cool. Some people from my old church were warning me that they support planned parenthood. I couldn't get a straight answer out of the lady who was training me. I finally found out that- Yes, they do. Or at least they did back then I don't know if they still do. I took everything i've been working on and dropped it off on her patio with a note and never looked back. My daughter was disappointed but we got involved in other things.

It will be hard because Google owns RU-vid, where I am a consumer of Catholic podcasts and channels. Netflix also shows some Catholic series such as The Chosen.

Always wondered about this. Thanks for the analysis. Really enjoy your to-the-point videos.

I like the way Fr. Casey explained how our patronage speaks for us, and abstaining from purchasing also has power. I believe there is another even more powerful choice- switch your buying over to companies and people who make good product AND empower your beliefs and values. I get that in a fallen world Christians may need to stave off or eliminate completely to make sure what they do and support reflects their beliefs and values. But how much more powerful could it be when those same Christians SWITCHED their buying habits to companies that reflect their values from the companies that don't respect theirs. That's pulling weeds and planting seeds in this garden of a world we've been given to take care of.

Unless a person is going to live off the land, high in the mountains, away from other people, walking around barefoot and naked, and eating berries while spearing fish for dinner, then it’s next to impossible to avoid most companies. However- we can avoid stores like Target and avoid buying Nike and a few other brands

Isn’t this covered under Paul talking about eating pagan sacrificed food in the epistles?

Thanks for the list, I had no idea..😢 As a Disney lover this is sad...I grew up by Disneyland... I hope I can still take my child to Disneyland, he's 5 and never been. Everything else I wouldn't care to stop buying from 😢

I'm a rideshare driver & I've gotten a few fares to planned parenthood, it feels so wrong driving a passenger there but I also know I could jeopardize my livelihood if I cancelled the trip on the grounds that I didn't approve of abortion, maybe nothing would happen or maybe I'll get deactivated on that platform.

To draw from Captain Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean films) - You have lent a machete to my intellectual thicket. Thank you for sharing with us, as always.

I do that with people or programs. I tried to do so with products coming from countries I don't like. Once the product is processed, like oil, its hard to know where the original material came from.

Thank You !!! Your help in shining light on this topic is essential. Its about time we all exploit the very companies that exploit and condone the misuse of the human body

Fr. Casey teaches the teaching of the Church that buying, using and eating those products made by companies that support abortion or other grave sins is not sinful if our cooperation is only remote. He also said that all big businesses are engaged with some level of evil. The same principle of moral theology would be applied to voting pro-abortion candidate or taking vaccine from aborted fetus. Voting for that candidate or taking that vaccine is not sinful if our participation is only remote.

Never thought buying an iphone had anything to do with abortion.

A few months ago I sent an email in college to every student exposing the evil of abortion, here in Portugal. The email was sent to about 19000 people. The days that followed were... peculiar to say the least 😂

Here's why those companies do that - they want to save money from not having to pay maternity leave and losing that employees for several weeks or a few months.

I have a genuine question. Do we have that choice? Like, in modern society with all the companies that make it, is it at all possible to rid yourself completely of companies that subsidize evil? 0:01 both Meta and Microsoft are on that list. Most people with a desk job have to use Microsoft Word and Excel, not to mention Windows. Here in Brazil, most work related communication happens through WhatsApp, owned by meta. Millions of people depend on using those things for gainful employment and that's only one example.

I've stopped shopping at Target and have been throwing away my Disney products. Also, listening to cover songs of my favorite songs and not the artists that support and endorse evil I do need help with shopping on Amazon, though. That is my downfall because of convenience after a long day of work

Make sure to also read: 1.Corinthians 10:25-33

It's similar to the Church teaching that voting for Democrats does not necessarily mean sinful. It depends on one's intention. But for the extreme conservative, just voting for Democrats is already a mortal sin. Fr. Altman said, "You cannot be catholic and be a Democrat." Now he became a sede.

The same should be applied to all corporations. These are idols of greed and ignored by Christian’s bc people love cheap products regardless of how they get them

Thanks for this,Father! Is there an official list of brands/companies that go against Social/Moral teachings of the Church? Thanks from the Philippines!

To be honest, if the Church was more serious about it, like obliged the faithful to actively fight abortion, companies wouldn't do that because it would reduce their profits.

For what it's worth, if you buy a product a dollar cheaper at an abortion-supporting company and give the extra dollar to a charity who opposes abortion or supports struggling mothers, that could be seen as a net benefit overall.

Thank you, Father Cole, for detailing the parameters of our moral culpability, when dealing with organizations that fund or support the greatest crime of our age - abortion. It is sad that we are living in a culture where a daily holocaust level of homicide is being committed against our most innocent, and most are blissfully unaware, are apathetic, or are in full support of such a heinous evil.

We live in a very convoluted world in which very many companies/organizations are operating in ways and in various degrees of support of things that stand the way of opposing the Catholic faith. It is true we must be conscientious in regard to all moral matters and do what we can to avoid complicit support, but we also may up against a wall of invincible ignorance.

The benefit of a healthy Capitalist state is that many businesses are in direct competition for your dollar. You as the consumer can state your Social, Moral or ethical boundaries by how you spend your money. If you don't like that a bakery is not willing to cater to a gay wedding, then you go someplace else and perhaps even tell others that that bakery will not cater to Gay weddings. You are still responsible for your own moral choice in not lying about why you don't patron that business, and if you're not moral enough to not lie, perhaps that is the issue you need to think on rather than someone else's perceived failings. So, the Morality of it is quite clear, if you value your morals and ethics you stand by them or you don't. Its not boycotting if you just choose to not be a patron of theirs and if asked you tell others why truthfully. Its just being personally responsible for your own integrity.

They are the ones who have everything we need so it is almost impossible

i do not think that we should be supporting organization who take no shame in the unjust killing of an unborn child. it was Aristotle who once said, and the Catholic Catechism again restates, that "An unexamined life is not worth living". if we as Catholic are to blind to the things these people support in their stores during this woke time in the world, then we are probably blind to other, maybe even worse things that they can be supporting. The reason we are Catholic is to follow the way of life which God intended us to walk in, and now were walking into stores stores and buying their products without knowing what path they chose to walk in? i will never as a Catholic support stores who promote such evil ideology. GODSPEED

I love the teachings of our Church! Thank you father, this was very helpful, and beautifully explained.

What can we do? The list is so long. How can we live without Microsoft, Apple, Amazon , Walmart, Chase credit card? They all fund with travel expenses or plan parenthood. I have iPhone , my provider is Verizon and my card is Chase and Amazon Prime. Father what can I do. 😭😩. It is so sad.

I think this is a good way to look at it. I also think the idea of "rendering unto ceaser what is ceaser's" kind of applies to some extent in this situation. Obviously Ceaser was not a blameless man, and I imagine worshipped Roman pagan god's among other evil things. However, the people of the time may or may not have been in support of these actions, but it didn't matter because it was necessary to pay taxes. Now is it as necessary to buy Nike shoes as it is to pay taxes? No, obviously not, so it's not a perfect comparison, but I do think it shows that monetarily supporting evil indirectly and without the intention of doing so shouldn't be a huge concern morally. That being said, if there is an alternative available, especially one that is relatively equivalent, it would probably be worth it to support an alternative that doesn't support abortion.

What about a service Heard through the grapevine that PayPal supports planned parenthood because I use PayPal as a service to by a product on line to protect myself from being scammed does this mean I am cooperating with this company as a service provider

It’s like child discipline when by their misbehaviour they “bring it (punishment and consequences) “all on themselves” and they need to be punished “for their own good”

It's disheartening to learn how many companies support abortion! I had no idea🙁

Id also add that debt free living is a great supplement to these crises of conscience. I no longer care about my guilt over Bank of America's potential political agenda because I'm not shoveling them 4k a year in interest. Their political spending is of no more concern to me than how my neighbor votes

I rarely agree with you (to be honest: I don't remember of agreeing with you in any of the few videos I saw), but here: you are 100% right. Thank you for this video. Many thanks and God bless!

Out of the park segment Fr. Casey!👍🙏

What's especially galling about companies that offer to pay for employees' travel and procedures for abortions is that they are not offering these same employees money to have children. Any employer who will fund your abortion but not your family is no ally.

Did I hear “The world needs more prophets than profits”? 🤣

Target is big (retail and company headquarters) in Minnesota. They support Planned Parenthood. I will not give them my buisness! I shake my head when I see a full Target parking lot.

Praying more parents, Religious & Clergy will introduce, promote & foster the practice & blessing of abstinence, which would greatly reduce the numbers of hour-by-hour, daily infanticide. Also praying for the closure of abortion facilities; and for protection of our Lord in the Eucharist. ♡+JMJ+♡

I haven’t read through all these questions but I’m troubled with the fact that our current President calls himself a Catholic, yet the church continues to allow him to participate and receive communion, and he approves abortion, even late term abortion. This also includes the former speaker of the house. Please, help me understand this.

I had no idea that some of these companies support abortion. In South Africa it is not as out there as in USA. I use Uber all the time to get to church (only way to get there)

I am absolutely pro life. In Canada abortions started to be legal in 1969, and in 1989 it has been a legal activity for the whole country. Thinking of abortion never even crossed my mind buying stuff from these companies. Maybe I should think a l little different now after watching this.

Imagine being a company that supports the murder of your future customers. It's mind-boggling.

Please, also talk about those which support apartheid and genocide in Palestine.

Fantastic video. Very helpful.

Great video Father! Thanks

I volunteer for a local food bank that gets their last chance or near expiration items from Kroger. Yikes!

Does this analysis also apply to evil done by a government using funds you pay in taxes? And since paying taxes is obligatory (unlike purchasing a consumer goods), does that change our responsibility to work for positive change? Arms sales, subsidies to harmful industries, etc. come to mind.

Thank you, Fr. Casey

I'm innocent until i watched this. Avoiding these companies would be the utmost option. Pro Deo et Ecclesia 🕊 ✝️ 🙏

Thanks Father, an excellent explanation.

The sacrifice sometimes can be too demanding. I guess besides voting with our tax dollars (which is sometimes the easiest thing to do), we must reach out to our youngsters in our parishes; be it our kids or the that of our neighbours or catholic community kids. We need to talk to them educate them about the sanctity of life. It is a long long road, but then we must go on that road because when things started going south we were ignorant of it.

Leaving aside the question of abortion, I appreciate this video because it deals with probably the most basic moral question most of us will ever be confronted with: To what extent are we responsible for the evil we make possible simply by participating in more than a subsistance economy. From Chinese forced labor to Israeli apartheid, how can we avoid adding to human misery? And what must the good man do when his government forces him - under threat of imprisonment - to hand over the fruits of his labor to pay for executions, unjust war, and bombing civilians?

Excellent argumentation Father Casey. I hope you have a great rest of your day!

Thank you for the clarification and these concise steps. I wonder how this may relate to structural sin. These companies can support abortions because people don’t care. If there’s not an individual sin, may there be a structural sin? And isn’t that really irrelevant to the individual?

This seems litigious. With some not having access to good things like fresh produce and affordable resources but a place to shop that's known to do evil..I understand. Or if we do or buy things in ignorance, then find out after fact we've been supporting evil this whole time.. But I wonder if we're overexplaining a sin. I like what you said at the end, though. We Can do without some *things*. 💙👍🏻

Reminds me of the show the good place and the points system lol

I don’t support specific products that fundraise for the elective termination of human bodies. Things like Benefits eyebrow mascara.

I’m a voice actor who’s catholic and it’s so hard to find work with these convictions. I’m strongly against abortion, and the art industry is HUGELY against me.

Can you do something about the ethics of piracy? It's become a staple to my life as a student lol.

Thank you Father, so very well explained.

If God himself gave us free will and the ability to choose, then shouldn’t that be the standard for abortion? Shouldn’t it be up to each individual person to decide if they want to commit that sin? For the record I believe abortion is evil but I debate issues in my head and I’m not sure how to answer that. Thank you

It’s very hard to exclusively do business with pro life individuals or companies, but we should do our best. I also think some companies are more egregious than others. For example, Lyft driving people to abortions for free because of the Texas law is more egregious than Microsoft donating some money to Planned Parenthood among other charities. Also, my company donated to Planned Parenthood, and also the Catholic Church and pro-life orgs. A lot of times companies will cut big checks to a myriad of non-profits as some companies have a program where each employee gets some money they have to donate to a charity of their choice. So you see corporate money go to all kinds of causes just based on the fact that their employee base has all types of people.

So, is this like a call to use your Catholic conscience to boycott without using the actual word "boycott"?

Father I love your video! I have a conundrum, I really hope you see this; I love your videos on RU-vid, but the platform is owned by Google, which is super pro abortion, how can we reconcile this? I feel a little overwhelmed, but I want to please the Lord, should we not use this platform? Blessings amd much respect from CA

Never thought about this, might start looking into this...

Great video.

depends what you are buying, but i can think of at least one. _JC

You are an amazing priest . Thank you for your work.

This is the BEST video Thank you friar

Thought provoking. Thank you.

If we can do business with the Catholic church despite the wrongs in it's past. We should be able to do business with any of these companies.

What does the Bible say about abortions?

So, ignorance is bliss.

Paying for abortion travel is cheaper than paying for maternity leave