Posted on 08/18/2017 7:42:51 PM PDT by marshmallow
CHILE, August 17, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — A retired cardinal has told Catholic politicians who voted to legalize abortion in Chile that they cannot receive the sacraments until they show public signs of repentance.
The 90-year-old former bishop of Valparaiso, Cardinal Jorge Medina Estevez, sent a letter dated August 8 to the El Mercurio newspaper reiterating the Church's teaching on denying Communion to Catholic politicians who support abortion and other grave evils.
Canon 915 of the Church’s Code of Canon Law states that persons “obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to holy communion.”
A grave sin
In his letter, Medina describes Chile’s decision to decriminalize abortion as an “atrocity.” Previously, the two-thirds Catholic country had some of the most pro-life laws in the world. With the bill’s passage, women will be allowed to have an abortion if their health is believed to be in peril, if they were raped, and, as the law states, “when the fetus is unviable.”
Cardinal Medina noted that the use of the term ‘decriminalization’ by pro-abortionists is in reality a euphemism that hides the “atrocious reality of legalized murder of an innocent [baby].”
He added that politicians who supported the law are accomplices to that atrocity and “should not receive the vote of any Christian.” Only when the politician publicly expresses regret before the next election could a Christian think of voting for them again.
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Bravo! When the formal correction of Pope Francis comes about there will be a lot more signatures by Catholic prelates and theologians than the three still living dubia cardinals.
Pelosi would be planted without any popery ???
Bravo! She will, however, be planted with garlic.
barn door, horse
God bless you Cardinal!
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