Posted on 10/18/2004 9:13:08 AM PDT by kerrywearsbotox
17 October 2004 RE: KERRY HERESY CASE – MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS
The denunciation and complaint is pending before Archbishop O’Malley of Boston, according to the head of the Tribunal of the Archdiocese of Boston whom I met in person at the Tribunal of Boston at the end of July. He told me explicitly that the case had not been rejected. He also detailed how the Tribunal has been massively overwhelmed by the thousands upon thousands of individual denunciations and complaints. As a result I am asking all of you to, from now on, only to contact Archbishop Sean O’Malley directly, but only UPON SPECIFIC CANONICAL INSTRUCTIONS which I will be sending out over the next few days, as posted on the website and sent to you by e-mail. The Tribunal has sent the case upwards to O’Malley. I went to Rome in late August and met with 10 experts, all of whom confirmed the unprecedented nature and scope of the action in Church history. Moreover, as I had consulted everyone else, I decided in conscience that I had to go and consult the Vatican. I was received by an official of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith. We had a detailed meeting. I submitted two doctrinal questions in Latin to the CDF: First, Whether or not the Church’s teaching condemning any and every direct abortion is a dogma of Divine and Catholic Faith, and if the denial and doubt of the same constitutes heresy. The Second: Whether or not the Church’s teaching condemning any and every right to abortion is a dogma of Divine and Catholic Faith, and if the denial and doubt of the same constitutes heresy. Less than ten days later, the Rev. Basil Cole, O.P., an expert theologian called me to inform me that he was “delegated” by the Very Rev. Augustine di Noia, O.P., Undersecretary of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, to fulfill the task of responding to the question. He studied the matter carefully, and has responded “Affirmative” on both counts. The response is extraordinary: It is now posted in full in .pdf format at www.defide.com One may right-click on the document and choose “save as” to obtain the form. Here is the critical excerpt: “Consequently, if a Catholic publicly and obstinately supports the civil right to abortion, knowing that the Church teaches officially against that legislation, he or she commits that heresy envisioned by Can. 751 of the Code. Provided that the presumptions of knowledge of the law and penalty (Can. 15, § 2) and imputability (Can. 1321, § 3) are not rebutted in the external forum, one is automatically excommunicated according to Can. 1364, § 1.”***The “Gordian Knot” of the Cuomo defense, “Personally Opposed but Support the Right to Choose” has now been cut in half: A pro-choice Catholic politician may not be guilty of the heresy denying the grave immorality of the ACT of abortion itself, but falls into the pit of committing the heresy supporting the RIGHT of a third party to freely commit abortion.The fact that the Response was provided 1) under “delegation” of the Undersecretary, 2) in only eleven days; 3) in writing; 4) decisively clarifying the matter and 5) in far greater detail than a typical official reply is wholly unique, from what supporting Bishops have expressed. The Congregation had no obligation to respond by “delegating” this matter to the expert theologian.As a number of Bishops have already told me, if any baptized Catholic denies or doubts the two main conclusions of the Response, after knowing of its existence, he or she commits heresy, since, as the theologian states in the text, the dogmatic force of the two propositions is “manifest.” We are not dealing here with a mere opinion about a “matter of opinion.” The two core teachings of the Response are already defined official teachings of the Ordinary and Universal Magisterium. This easily explains its rapid composition and receipt. For all of the above reasons, I have been encouraged to now finally broaden the action: An amended Denunciation and Complaint against Senator John F. Kerry including the Responsum, and four new Denunciations and Complaints against Sen. Ted Kennedy (D) of Massachusetts; Sen. Tom Harkin (D) of Iowa; Mr. Mario Cuomo (D), former Governor of New York; and Sen. Susan Collins (R) of Maine, will be filed Monday in the five Ecclesiastical Courts of the five separate Dioceses. Please, keep a close watch daily of www.defide.com and your e-mail box for updates on how to proceed. IT IS CRITICAL THAT COORDINATION AND QUICK RESPONSE BETWEEN ALL JOINDERS BE ACHIEVED IN ORDER TO SUCCEED IN THE SUITS. For every one of you with Press contacts, the publicizing of these developments is critical to achieving public awareness of the action. Please send in e-mail requests to have the story treated by the big mainstream newspapers and news programs, not to mention cable. With those of even greater influence, please do what you can. This life-threatening heresy must stop. Your donations are earnestly needed as the plan is being finally broadened in scope: Please consider the following hypertext link: http://www.defide.com/contact.html Please help DE FIDE achieve its mission for the greater glory of God and the greater good of this great Nation. Please keep DE FIDE and me in your prayers. Thank you for your very timely support. Yours truly,Marc Balestrieri, J.C.L. DE FIDE1223 Wilshire Blvd.PMB 346Santa Monica, CA 90403Tel.: (310) 917-2719Fax.: (310 496-2843secretary@defide.com
He will no doubt be excommunicated by the Catholic Church.
Kerresy?
Paragraphs are our friends. You need to reformat this or nobody's going to read it.
Too bad it won't be before 11/2.
Paragraphs please!
We won't read it without them.
If Kerry is excommunicated before Nov. 2 he will lose most of the ~48% of the Catholic vote he currently has, plus a few others.
So when is the thermal treatment scheduled?
I sent in my certified complaint, and I agree that the more they get, the harder it will be for them to shrug this off.
The whole atmosphere is changing among the Catholic bishops. Last year Archbishop O'Malley would have been under a lot of pressure from his fellow bishops as well as the liberal media to dismiss the case.
This year the bishops aren't so certain where the consensus is. The younger conservative bishops are gaining influence. If O'Malley dismisses the case he'll please the Boston Globe and the liberal establishment, which is pretty big in Massachusetts, but he might kill his future prospects as a leader in the Church in America. So he needs to be more cautious about letting kerry off the hook.
This article looks interesting. Please ping me when it is posted a a readable form. Thanks
Not a chance in the world that they will act before election day. So this won't have much impact on the race, but it may have a great deal of impact on the future ability of heretic Catholic politicians to run and hide from the consequences of their sins.
No, he's not going to be excommunicated, and neither will the other politicians named in the document. It's not going to happen.
You may wish that it would happen, but that will not make it so.
The Pope and the Church, like all political bodies, make decisions based on current needs. Indeed, if they did excommunicate these people, the impact on the RCC would be enormous.
As you know, many Catholics simply ignore the Church's ban on abortion and birth control. They do this, because the Church has tacitly allowed them to. Local priests are the ones who really make these decisions for their parishioners.
Excommunication is a last resort measure, and will not be used in this case.
Are you sure? The Kerry camp's response would be something along the lines of: "This is just another right-wing smear campaign orchestrated by Karl Rove who is manipulating radical fundamentalist Bishops who took time out from their busy schedule of molesting young boys to write this scurrilous document...and we question the timing of this action."
The "Catholic vote" is the backbone of the abortion license in this country.
It sustains the twelve Catholic senators who are blocking the appointment of pro-life Federal judges.
Any attempt by the Church to condemn Kerry will help him, not hurt him.
Red
"Any attempt by the Church to condemn Kerry will help him, not hurt him."
Precisely. We're pretty protective about our elections being influenced by outsiders, and the RCC, as a world power, is definitely an outsider.
But, it won't come to that, since O'Malley is going to do no such thing as state that Kerry, Kennedy, or any other others are excommunicates. It ain't gonna happen.
nothing...
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