Posted on 04/18/2004 12:08:47 PM PDT by cpforlife.org
Cardinal, in meeting with Kerry, basically says someone in danger of going to hell is "none of his business"
By Gary L. Morella
There is not much to comment on in the enclosed report from CWN ( http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=28963 )regarding Cardinal McCarrick's meeting with Kerry because, if this report is accurate, McCarrick is NOT a Catholic! Catholics, especially Catholic priests, care about the danger of people going to hell. Kerry, per Canon law, deserves formal excommunication many times over for this public sins, which he flouts. If Kerry's bishop (O'Malley) or Cardinal McCarrick truly cared for his immortal soul they would do just that, excommunicate him to try to bring him to his senses. Instead the response from McCarrick is "(Kerry's) very real risk of going to hell is none of my business" with sacrilege upon sacrilege resulting every time Kerry presents himself for Holy Communion.
Certainly if Kerry ever went into a confessional for the Sacrament of Penance, his confession was not a good one in that absolution for one's sins is contingent upon an act of contrition with a firm purpose of amendment. Kerry shamelessly has repeatedly made his sins public to the scandal of the Church. What planet has Cardinal McCarrick been living on to be blind to this fact?
Going to Heaven instead of hell USED to be the business of the Catholic Church, the ONLY business! The Church is being betrayed from within by those who could care less about this seminal truth as evidenced by Cardinal McCarrick's statements per CWN. This is the same Cardinal McCarrick who refuses to take definitive action against the administration of a pseudo-Catholic university in his archdiocese that, like Kerry, also shamelessly flouts the Church's moral teaching. To the detriment of Kerry's immortal soul, he is being put at risk of "getting to know the devil better for eternity."
To say, as some fraudulently calling themselves Catholic have, that "there is no single issue that should determine a Catholic's vote in regard to Kerry" completely ignores the fact that Kerry is a disciple of the entirety of the "culture-of-eternal-death" being in favor of contraception, abortion, homosexuality, and euthanasia to name the major ones addressed in the Universal Catechism and the Teaching Magisterium of Holy Mother Church. Thus, it is a WHOLE litany of issues for which John Kerry gives no evidence whatsoever that he is a Catholic. For the scandal that he has publicly caused the Church he has de facto excommunicated himself latae sententiae per Canon law, as many orthodox Catholic sources have repeatedly pointed out.
Catholics are not called to check their Faith at the door when they enter public life. They are called to uncompromisingly witness to it for the sake of a Kingdom not of this world, for supernatural reasons, the only reasons for being a Catholic. Everything done by man naturally is to build for living in that other Kingdom. That is the Catholic example that Christ called us all to follow in the last chapter of the Gospel of Matthew. To get right to the point, Catholics are called to convert the world to the One, True Faith for man's natural good leading ultimately to his supernatural good, which is what adherence to the Natural Law, a participation in the Eternal Law, means. How can you do that when, like John Kerry, you encourage disobedience to God's laws?
How can it not be a red flag that something is very wrong with politicians like Kerry, Kennedy ad nauseam, pseudo-Catholic frauds, whose actions do not deserve our support but rather our condemnation for the sake of the souls of all concerned. For the love of God, Cardinal McCarrick, have you forgotten that Kerry could not even bring himself to support a seriously flawed law that only recognizes the life of an innocent in the womb from conception if it is wanted by its mother? Have you forgotten that Kerry is a shameless supporter of partial birth infanticide? WHAT OTHER ISSUE is as important as this, Cardinal McCarrick? And please do not tell me that peace and social justice issues trump life when God knew us before we were in the womb per Jeremiah?
It is personally disgusting for me as a Catholic layman, a father, and a grandfather, to watch our supposed good shepherds skew the teachings of the faith by given the impression that John Kerry is a Catholic, and that there is NOT ONE issue for which Kerry's Catholicism could be called into serious question with the required punishment, given Kerry's bastardization of the faith. That is not what my Catechism says. That is not what Denzinger's the Sources of Catholic Dogma says. That is not what the infallible teaching Magisterium of Holy Mother Church on Faith and morals says, from both extraordinary (ex cathedra) and ordinary standpoints as to what the Church has always traditionally taught, and what the faithful have always traditionally believed. That is not what Saint Thomas Aquinas says in the Summa Theologica, a man whom Leo XIII in Aeterni Patris gave as THE example for Catholic teaching. That is not what Pius IX, Pope Saint Pius X, Pius XI, Pius XII, and the Conciliar popes Paul VI, and John Paul II say in their encyclicals addressing various aspects of Church teaching against the culture-of-eternal-death, in particular the contraceptive mentality leading to abortion for which there is a classical Catholic Magisterial presentation in Pius XI's Casti Connubii, which is another teaching that John Kerry blatantly flouts. That is not what the teachings of the early fathers traditionally held, and it most certainly is not what Sacred Scripture, the inspired word of God inerrant in all things because of that fact, holds on the aforementioned issues.
Just how many mortal sins does Kerry have to commit, and they are mortal, the grave matter per the aforementioned clear Church teaching, the consent to willfully ignore that teaching, and the actual commission, testify to that fact - there are no excuses for the John Kerry's of the world - before someone wearing a miter in this country gives evidence that he is a Catholic by caring enough for Kerry's immortal soul and the souls of those whom he has scandalized by formally stating that Kerry is excommunicated from the Catholic Church?
It is a sad fact that many bishops have encouraged dissent from infallible Magisterial teaching on faith and morals, which spawned a sodomite subculture in the priesthood, that gave us "Catholic" politicians like John Kerry. That is the biggest scandal, i.e., our supposed "good shepherds" doing NOTHING to save our souls!
Gary L. Morella Catholic Member of the Research Faculty The Pennsylvania State University
The absolute shambles that is the Catholic Church in America is being revealed for all to see. And the so-called "orthodox" bishops are NOT speaking up or acting decisively, while the sellouts like McCarrick, Egan, O'Malley, etc., are misstating Canon Law, making excuses for Kerry and his ilk, and dithering.
Sign of the End Times...
That's who O'Brien is!
I saw him on O'Reilly, too, and couldn't place him.
That time, if it ever existed, was exceedingly brief. From what I can tell, that time existed only between the crucifixion of Christ and the first Indulgences. After that, the Catholic Church became just another tool of political powerbrokers. Saving souls became secondary after that. Now I don't even believe it's tertiary.
No offense to any Catholics intended. I'm just calling it the way I see it.
thanks for the ping, cp.
I've narrowed it to two reasons for Catholic Church official timidity:
(1) Tax-exempt status
(2) Indifference
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