TREND? "Pro-Abort Politicians "Shouldn't Dare Come to Communion", Madison Bishop Backs Burke

LifeSiteNews.com/ ZENIT.org ^ | January 24, 2004 | LifeSiteNews.com/ ZENIT.org

[Dajjal]

The letter from Bp Burke, telling certain pols NOT to receive Communion until they publicly recant, IS excommunication.

Not true.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/enpeters/a_denialofeucharist.htm

Excommunication (or interdiction) would entail the denial of all the sacraments, not the denial of only the Eucharist, as Burke has done.

[Theodore R.]

Notice how quickly Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-OH, switched from prolife to pro-abortion when he announced his "presidential" candidacy. There was no "shame" at all. Similarly, not so popular Rep. Richard A. Gephardt, soon to be no longer D-MO, made the same switch in the 1970s. So did the popular Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr., for that matter. And wasn't the most popular of all, EMK, once "prolife" too?

I never saw the unpopular Nixon or Ford feel "shame" over being for abortion either.

[Ann Archy]

WOW!!! Fabulous....especially about the people that VOTE for them also ......Way to Go....about time.

[Federalist 78]

Asked about the problem of PROTESTANT politicians promoting abortion, Deuteronomy 5:17 noted that the problem "is not only politicians but those (protestants) who vote for them." He stressed repeatedly the "great need for THOU SHALL NOT MURDER instruction among our people."

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

RE: #17 posted on 01/24/2004 10:59:24 AM PST by Salvation

Great post. Thank you for your good work here, Salvation.

One of the bishops really HAS to confront the pro-abortion types publicly. Like the Pope did back in the 1980s with Ernesto Cardenal in Managua.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Yes, pro-abortion Protestants are disgusting as well. They help destroy and erode Christian culture in America. Shameful hypocrites....all.

[american colleen]

Thank you for the ping!!

I am so happy and excited! Bishop O'Malley is *finally* showing his stripes! I pray that the priests in this diocese listen to what their bishop is saying.

Archbishop O'Malley noted that beyond pro-abortion politicians, that reception of Holy Communion by those not in a state of grace is sadly commonplace. "I think it's in the context of a greater problem - Catholics feel that everyone is entitled to go to communion all the time. That has to be addressed. You know if a (pro-abortion) politician asked me I would say you shouldn't go to communion, I wouldn't go to communion. They don't understand why." He explained, "At a funeral sometimes they will announce that communion is for Catholics and people get all offended, so we've lost the notion of the sacredness of communion and the kind of disposition we need to have."

[attagirl]

Excellent!

[ninenot]

AHA!! I stand corrected.

[ninenot]

But the ones that REALLY take the cake are the pro-abort Jews.

Not even 60 years after Auschwitz opened its chambers...

In another venue, similar, the Orthodox Jews are apoplectic over the Liberal Jewish clamor for "Gun Control."

Perverse, indeed.

[Salvation]

Thanks, HMBA,

**One of the bishops really HAS to confront the pro-abortion types publicly. Like the Pope did back in the 1980s with Ernesto Cardenal in Managua.**

We have one at the present Burke -- and now Maida, but I'm not sensing as strong as what you referenced back when we were younger. LOL!

[sinkspur]

First off, 'excommunication' has already been done. The letter from Bp Burke, telling certain pols NOT to receive Communion until they publicly recant, IS excommunication.

It is not. Excommunication is an explicit canonical penalty attached to specific actions; in addition, these politicians would be refused a church burial if they were excommunicated. I doubt Burke would refuse them that.

These pro-choice politicians are excluded from communion. They are not excommunicated.

[TASMANIANRED]

I want to know why this took 30 years.

[cpforlife.org]

Thanks...Now if we can just get the bishops to read it!!!

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

I want to know why this took 30 years. 33 posted on 01/24/2004 8:19:09 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (black dogs are my life)

Um....the smoke of Satan maybe?

[melsec]

This is all good news. How about emailing these Bishops to show the support and love of the bretheran.

God Bless

Mel