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
There should be a new category of sin -- Venial sin, Mortal sin, and Cardinal sin.
They are totally doomed and beyond our help, or even God's help.
No doubt the Cardinal agrees with me in this case.
After you sell an item to someone/someTHING else...do you really worry about it anymore?
Great point. Didn't know if you all were pinged to this, but I thought you'd want to see this post.
It's all about the money. The heirarchy of the American Catholic Church seem to only care about money, not faith.
Kerry and Cardinal McCarrick both declined to comment after the 45-minute meeting. A Kerry aide said the meeting was "completely personal and private."
I can't find information to back up your claim
.....Where do you get that Cardinal McCarrick said it's "none of his business"? Do you know what was said?
Your conclusions and title are far from accurate - unless you've failed to link us to an actual quote from the Cardinal or Kerry saying what you've implied.
Hopefully you'll clear this up, thanks
Fascinating isn't it? We also have ex-politicos who head Congressionally mandated committees telling the people of the United States of America this: "PEOPLE out to stay out of our BUSINESS".
The entire country has gone mad!!
I agree with it so I posted it. I added the URL to the article mentioned, but don't subscribe to the site so cannot post the whole thing.
So where in the article does it say the cardinal said "it's none of his business"? I'm interested in this, I have met Cardinal McCarrick (he used to be my bishop) I can't believe he actually said this - from what I can see from this article, I don't see a quote from him at all. The fact that they had a private conversation makes me believe the Cardinal told him what the deal is.....
Gov Mcgreevy (D-NJ) is a sleaze liberal/pro abortionist and he basically used his parish as a stepping stone (knights of columbus etc) into politics so it wouldn't be the first time this has happened.
Where is the link for this piece then:
Cardinal, in meeting with Kerry, says someone in danger of going to hell is "none of his business"
Sat, 17 Apr 2004 | Gary L. Morella
maybe he used sources we aren't seeing....
You answered your own question.
This is the author's way of "paraphrasing" what McCarrick's actions and inactions mean in reality.
No, McCarrick never literally said this. However, boiled down to its essentials, that is what he is saying when he refuses to admonish the sinner and instruct the ignorant. Excommunication is a spiritual work of mercy designed to catechise the persistent grave scandalous sinner that they are literally going to hell if they don't change.
Refusing to carry out such an essential and neccessary spiritual work of Mercy says the opposite to the sinner, i.e., someone in danger of going to hell is "none of his business"
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