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Cardinal Burke: Nancy Pelosi ‘Must’ be Denied Communion
Life Site News ^ | 9/20/13 | Patrick B. Craine

Posted on 09/21/2013 6:08:55 AM PDT by marshmallow

LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept. 20, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a wide-ranging interview, Cardinal Raymond Burke has issued an emphatic call for pro-abortion Catholic politicians like House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to be denied Communion.

The cardinal also spoke about the rapid advance of the homosexual agenda, the decline in catechesis that, he says, has crippled the Church’s response to pressing moral issues of the day, and the growing danger of Christian persecution under an increasingly “totalitarian” government. Cardinal Raymond Burke

The cardinal, who heads the Vatican’s Apostolic Signatura and is America’s most senior prelate, made the comments in an interview published earlier this month by The Catholic Servant, a Minneapolis-based newspaper, and republished by The Wanderer.

Asked about Pelosi, he said, “Certainly this is a case when Canon 915 must be applied.”

Canon 915 states that those who are “obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.”

“This is a person who obstinately, after repeated admonitions, persists in a grave sin — cooperating with the crime of procured abortion — and still professes to be a devout Catholic,” the cardinal said. “I fear for Congresswoman Pelosi if she does not come to understand how gravely in error she is. I invite her to reflect upon the example of St. Thomas More who acted rightly in a similar situation even at the cost of his life.”

The cardinal also urged the faithful to practice “much prayer and fasting” to counter the growing threat of the homosexual agenda.

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To: marshmallow

I wonder if this will be seen as a message to the bishops of San Francisco and Washington, D.C. and Maryland that they are to instruct their priests that she is not to be given communion?

Seriously, things have become so bad of late that the church really needs to bring back the rite of excommunication.


21 posted on 09/21/2013 7:58:39 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (The best War on Terror News is at rantburg.com)
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To: marshmallow

Saw her a couple days ago on TV, and possibly it was just the high definition, but she looked dreadful. Maybe sin shows [more] through outstretched pores?


22 posted on 09/21/2013 8:00:42 AM PDT by mlizzy (If people spent an hour a week in Eucharistic adoration, abortion would be ended. --Mother Teresa)
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To: Never on my watch

Her and dufus Biden, too. And the rest of the “false prophets who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” Matt 7, 15


23 posted on 09/21/2013 8:00:56 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: Arthur McGowan

Can you please explain why the church continues to look the other way on all the politicians who publicly profess to be devout Catholics yet support and defend even late-term abortion and same-sex marriage? I was so hoping that when Pelosi and Biden went to Rome for the coronation of Pope Francis, they would be turned away when they went up for Communion, but they weren’t. That would have been the perfect opportunity to make a point, but instead, nothing happened!

Why doesn’t the Vatican excommunicate them and loudly explain why? To me, allowing this to continue in such a public way is tacit approval. How can the Church expect the rest of us to respect and obey if this is allowed?

Every time I hear Pelosi spew her lies about the Church, I just get so angry and, frankly, the lack of response from those in authority is causing me doubt and I don’t know how much longer I can continue believing in a church that allows this. (I left the Methodist church for that very reason.) Thank you very much if you can explain this to me.


24 posted on 09/21/2013 8:10:38 AM PDT by MomofMarine
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To: marshmallow

I love Cardinal Burke - I know he is doing great things on a bigger stage, but I miss him here in St. Louis :)


25 posted on 09/21/2013 8:50:07 AM PDT by Clintons Are White Trash (If stupid ever reaches $150 a barrel then I want the drilling rights to Maxine Water's head.)
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To: marshmallow

BTTT!


26 posted on 09/21/2013 8:59:24 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: marshmallow
Too bad the old bell, book and candle ritual of excommunication isn't still in the Roman ritual.

In the ritual the Bishop would pronounce:

We separate him, together with his accomplices and abettors, from the precious body and blood of the Lord and from the society of all Christians; we exclude him from our Holy Mother, the Church in Heaven, and on earth; we declare him excommunicate and anathema; we judge him damned, with the Devil and his angels and all the reprobate, to eternal fire until he shall recover himself from the toils of the devil and return to amendment and to penitence.
After reciting this The bishop would ring a bell to evoke a death toll, close a holy book to symbolize the ex-communicant's separation from the church, and snuff out a candle or candles, knocking them to the floor to represent the target's soul being extinguished and removed from the light of God.
27 posted on 09/21/2013 9:05:48 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: marshmallow

Just go to Dolan. He’ll give the Host to anyone, and have a big yuk fest about it afterwards.


28 posted on 09/21/2013 9:16:45 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: count-your-change

Cardinal Burke cannot remove Wuerl, only the Pope can.


29 posted on 09/21/2013 9:40:38 AM PDT by rcofdayton (.)
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To: hal ogen
Just spill some holy water on nan. I bet it will burn her.

Nah, she'll sizzle and melt, thus causing some ugly blotches on the marble floor. Plus, the stench!

30 posted on 09/21/2013 9:46:31 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: bmwcyle
How could a hypocrite like Pelosi even ask for forgiveness when she supports a health care plan forced on everyone that pays for abortion? Does she take money or provide funds for groups that enable or even provide abortions?

The hypocrisy is about the worst sin of the RC Church in the US. It's got rules, but those rules don't apply to how the elite govern.

31 posted on 09/21/2013 9:47:31 AM PDT by grania
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To: The Great RJ
That is what some people still mistakenly believe still exists, particularly those who incessantly carp "Well, why doesn't the Church go ahead and excommunicate her already???"

I agree with you. That ritual no longer is in effect, but I wish it was.

32 posted on 09/21/2013 9:53:36 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: rcofdayton

Precisely. Why doesn’t he “remove the wicked man from among yourselves” if Wuerl permits and therefore shares in the “grave moral sin” of Pelosi? Isn’t that what the Catechism says?


33 posted on 09/21/2013 9:55:46 AM PDT by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
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To: grania

Culture has drifted so far away from Jesus it spends to much time trying to understand and justify evil. The church has to realize it does should not accept evil.


34 posted on 09/21/2013 9:59:49 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: marshmallow

to read later.


35 posted on 09/21/2013 10:29:25 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (When you see a fork in the road, take it. - Yogi Berra)
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To: MomofMarine

First, just because those in authority are giving scandal doesn’t mean you have the right to give in to it.

In the case of some bishops, the reason is simple: They are Democrats. Also, the Church was systematically addicted to government money by Cardinal Bernardin and his cronies. (Bernardin (dead) was a pro-abortion Democrat homosexual. McCarrick (retired), same thing.)

In the case of the well-intentioned, it’s their age. They grew up in an age of incredible freedom for the Church. They were young adults when Kennedy was elected. They are still living in that dream world created by Joe Kennedy, where Catholics fit comfortably into the Democrat party and the society run by the Democrat party.

In many cases, it’s just plain fear and cowardice. Cardinal Wuerl likes federal money, and being invited to the best parties, and he’s blackmailable. His world would come crashing down if he confronted pro-abortion “Catholics” in any meaningful way.

NOTHING that vicious, stupid, or cowardly bishops may do justifies leaving the Church! The Catholic Church is Christ, and Christ is the Church.


36 posted on 09/21/2013 10:40:11 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan (If you're FOR sticking scissors in a female's neck and sucking out her brains, you are PRO-WOMAN!)
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To: Arthur McGowan

“Why does Cardinal Burke not take steps to have Cardinal Wuerl removed as Ordinary of the Archdiocese of Washington?”

Because Donna’s bosses haven’t wanted her removed?


37 posted on 09/21/2013 10:50:50 AM PDT by sitetest ( If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: Arthur McGowan

The reason is simple....the heart and soul of the Catholic church hierarchy is hypocrisy. Burke has been around long enough to remember priest Robert Drinin, congressman and advocate for legalized abortion. What happened to him? Highly honored in life and death by Catholic institutions despite or because of his “grave moral sins”.

Burke can blather on and on but so what? He’s “spoken out”, “taken a forceful position”, posed in his pretty red costume...who cares?


38 posted on 09/21/2013 10:57:04 AM PDT by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
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To: marshmallow
Better: Excommunicate this worthless witch. Watch Pelosi squirm and twist in the wind.
39 posted on 09/21/2013 11:59:44 AM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: marshmallow
Pelosi has publicly and clearly stated she believes exactly the same go along to get along, please everyone, “Christian Liberty” garbage the anti-Catholic crowd and the majority of churches other than Southern Baptists and Catholics preach these days.

Since by her own public statement of faith she no longer accepts Catholic teaching she should be excommunicated.

40 posted on 09/21/2013 12:07:29 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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