Posted on 10/04/2007 5:50:34 AM PDT by NYer
I agree it was a baited question to begin with when he was asked. The reaction and answer was a for gone conclusion. He could have said no comment, but choose to again repeat is already quoted answer which was then printed calling attention, again, to himself.
There are many more Church leaders who would refuse to answer such a leading question when first asked let alone to repeat the same answer again.
But then again maybe the he likes to be quoted.
What seperates one persons “sin” being different from anothers is really the unanswered real question.
LOL Good immitation of Rudy. I can just see him saying that, waving his arms around, dressed in drag.
-A8
For those interested in Canon Law, let's really look at the real words of the text:
"Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted
after the imposition or the declaration of a penalty
as well as others who
obstinately... they were explicitly warned, and ignored the warning
persist ...they repeatedly commit or or keep justifying the offense
in manifest... public, easily seen by all, not private
grave sin ...murder, sodomy, blasphemy, adultery, fraud, abuse of a sacrament: something of a visible, scandalous nature
are not to be admitted to communion."
A pretty good short layman's-language overview can be got from used for less than five bucks.
An important thing to remember is that canon law is ecclesiastical. It does not cover the whole law of God; it does not cover secular criminal law; it often assigns ecclesiatical penalties for offenses which are NOT covered by secular law.
For instance, there are a zillion crimes not explicitly dealt with by canon law, because they are already covered by secular criminal law. But striking a priest incurs ecclesiastical penalty, not because it's worse than striking the President of the United States, but because it involves the delict of contempt for persons, places or things associated with God, and thus requires spiritual amendment.
Anyone who commits ANY serious sin should abstain from Communion, all Catholics know this; but a person who commits public sin without publicly epenting and renouncing it, should be publicly stopped, if necessary, to prevent them from profaning the Sacrament.
weak-kneed response
If someone asks me “ Kelly, are you a practicing Roman Catholic?” My answer would be “Yes, I am....and I’ve got the scars to prove it. LOL”
Next question...
any politician who says they are “pro-choice” is NOT A PRACTICING CATHOLIC. PERIOD!
I don’t care what anybody says!
This entire thing is getting out of control. I have nothing against Catholics, all I’m saying is that while SOME like to make headlines with their response to a loaded question their voices are quiet when there is dirt within their own house and about those who cover it up for years.
While this is not a personel dislike of his beliefs, he should also be as verbal on all the sad things that he sees within his own house.
Yup. Unless there was an annulment we don't know about, then he's steal married in the eyes of the Church to Donna Hannover, Judith is then just his mistress.
How do you know he hasn't been? Do you read the Archbishop's news releases, letters, columns, and homilies (available free, here)? Do you subscribe to to Archdiocese newspaper, the St. Louis Review? Or is your sole source of complete and accurate information the Associated Press?
Actually, Burke is a solid, stand-up guy, and I don't say that about every cleric that comes down the pike.
And if you hadn't condemned him as a spineless wuss on that basis, you can be certain that lots of other folks would have.
Leftist "catholics" of the sort who vote for clintons and kennedys, and support "reproductive freedom" had a bilious, vitriolic, spitting, screeching hatred for the late Pope John Paul II which had to be witnessed in person to be fully appreciated. They extend the same courtesy to Pope Benedict XVI. There's definitely a measure of "Blessed are you when they curse you, and insult you and utter every kind of slander against you on account of Me" (quoted from memory) going on here. Let us pray for these good clergymen, that God grace them with perseverance in preaching the Gospel. Let us pray also for their more timid brethren, that God grace them with moral courage to begin preaching the Gospel fearlessly to a hostile world.
I've experienced the same thing. There are many Catholics who don't understand the Church's beliefs and laws. And they tend to have their opinion about Archbishop Burke shaped mostly by the local liberal paper and the evening news. And if those are your only sources of information about him, you're going to think he is a trouble-maker, power-monger, attention-seeker, ecclesiastical bully, etc., etc. But that's not the way he is at all. He is a very devout, loving man, standing up for what the Church actually believes, teaches and proclaims.
-A8
Finally someone gets beyond their religious blinders for their preconceived attacks of their religion and their leaders.
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