Posted on 10/29/2010 8:20:55 PM PDT by topher
Thursday October 28, 2010Catholics Can't Vote for Pro-Abort Politicians: Cardinal-Designate Burke
By John Jalsevac and Kathleen Gilbert San Diego, October 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) As Americans approach the eve of election week, Cardinal-designate Raymond Burke has said in a new interview that they must recognize their solemn obligation to defend their unborn brothers and sisters when approaching the voting booth. You can never vote for someone who favors absolutely the right to choice of a woman to destroy a human life in her womb or the right to a procured abortion, the archbishop told Thomas McKenna, President of Catholic Action for Faith and Family, in an interview released this week. McKenna interviewed Cardinal-designate Burke in Rome on Oct. 20 literally hours after it was announced he would be elevated to cardinal. (Click here to send a note of congratulations to the archbishop)
In recent years Cardinal-designate Burke, who is prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, the Churchs supreme court, has taught repeatedly that Catholic politicians who support abortion rights may not receive Holy Communion and that Catholics who know of the politicians voting record on these issues cannot vote for them and retain a clear conscience. In the recent interview, the archbishop explained that such politicians create scandal, which he defined as doing something or omitting to do something that leads other people into confusion or error about the moral good. Here's the perfect example of Catholics who betray their Catholic faith in political life, as legislators, as judges, or whatever it may be, leading other people to believe that abortion must not be the great evil that it is, or that abortion is in fact a good thing in certain circumstances. To those who would vote for pro-abortion politicians because they agree with those politicians on other issues, the archbishop said he would say, "Do you follow the golden rule that was taught to us by the Lord himself in the Gospels?" In other words, he explained, do you do unto others as you would want them to do unto you. Do you really consider it fair to advance some interest you have, which may be a good interest - whether its the environment, or whatever it might be - at the cost of denying to other members of society, especially those who depend upon us completely for life itself, to deny them the right to life? I think that if most people would reflect in this way, simply in terms of the golden rule, they would realize that no, it can never be right. The archbishop also pointed out that while some criticize the Church for upholding traditional marriage as a form of "discrimination" against homosexuals, such critics fail to recognize that, The Catholic Church, in teaching that sexual acts between persons of the same sex are intrinsically evil - are against nature itself - is simply announcing the truth, helping people to discriminate right from wrong in terms of their own activities. While racial and other types of discrimination may be unjust, he said, "There is a discrimination which is perfectly just and good, and namely that's the discrimination between what is right and what is wrong." In a press release announcing the interview, McKenna commented, Millions of Catholics have no idea its a sin to vote for candidates who favor these grave evils, which attack the very foundations of society." In his interview, said McKenna, "[Cardinal-designate Burke] makes it very clear what the responsibility of every American Catholic will be next Tuesday." The videotaped interview is available in two five-minute videos on YouTube, and a 25-minute Q&A video interview that is available for broadcast at CatholicAction.org.
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The news media has lately taken to referring to anyone in the Vatican City as “The Vatican,” including movie critics, astronomers, and opinion columnists. Burke, however, does speak for the Vatican: he is Catholic Church’s approximate analog to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, in the sense that Benedict’s former post would be analogous to the Attorney General.
Thank God for John Paul the Great and Pope Benedict!
Oh yeah?
Then every single one of them should never ever be voting for Barack insane Obama again, since he is the most pro-abortion politician and pro-partial-birth abortion politician than we have ever ever ever seen in our lives.
So: 100% of the Catholic vote down in the Republican column now, right ?
can this article explain why some uninformed pro-lifers in CT are protesting against Linda McMahon at the same time that National Right to Life is running radio ads supporting her?
There is obviously a flaw in McKenna’s reasoning.
Will Catholics get the message that they CANNOT support abortion?
Burke is sure pounding the message home, that’s for sure.
Since supporting abortion is a plank in the dimocrat platform — this means that NO CATHOLIC at all can vote dimocrat!!!
Make sure they include that this comes from The Highest Ranking American in the Vatican. The Pope would agree with Burke, but just has not made an official announcement.
If one just gets discussion going [emails, facebook, etc], votes will be swayed.
The only possible counter argument is Separation of Church and State
That does not apply here, and voting to murder innocent babies is always wrong. The church is just stating this through Cardinal-designate Burke.
I agree with you on the desired goal. However that still does not put the questions to rest. People tend to do what they want to do and that is not always what they are told to do.
We call those Cafeteria Catholics and they are not Catholics.
Jesus spoke about these people in Revelation:
Rev 3:14-17
14 "To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God's creation.
15 I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other!
16 So, because you are lukewarm-- neither hot nor cold-- I am about to spit you out of my mouth.
17 You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.
(NIV)
I believe Jesus describes these folks...
Maybe it will sway votes. Maybe it will sway enough votes in critical elections [Washington state, California, Delaware, Connecticut, etc]
Current numbers from Real Clear Poltics for the House has a solid Republican majority with this election:
GOP 222, Toss Ups 40, Democrat 173.
Someone stated that for off election cycles such as this year, the party not in power wins 75% of the close elections.
That might give the GOP 250 to 260 seats or possibly more.
The Senate is the real issue.
The Democrats are getting clobbered in the Governor races.
Looks like 60% or more of the Governors will be Republicans after November 2nd.
Ping. Spread the word. I consider Burke to the highest ranking American in the Vatican. And he states that one cannot vote for pro-abortion candidates. Period.
Need to get people to send emails, post on Facebook, etc
If this is so, how can any Freepers who are Catholic vote for Meg Whitman?
I’m not even Catholic and I agree with him but as a Christian I don’t see how any Christian could vote for a pro-abortion/choice candidate.
Interesting.....yep, I heard Crist use the Roe v Wade card this am! Reminds me of Carter! (ie how the Dems keep getting certifiable psychos elected president).
Any time a religious group starts telling people who they can or can not vote for, you have a bigger problem than abortion.
In the Northeast and through the rust belk, the union folks hold tighter to what the union tells them to do than what the Pope says.
My priest was preaching politics to me in the confessional. I wanted to run around to the other side and give him a squeeze! He is the sweetest old man that ever lived! :0)
“Any time a religious group starts telling people who they can or can not vote for, you have a bigger problem than abortion.”
Hitler and Stalin had similar objections; of course, those people always have the option of having MTV inform their consciences. Nobody is required to belong to any religion; those that do usually have their reasons.
In the case of the lesser of two evils, chose the lesser based on other factors.
A Republican Governor might help the cause of pro-life indirectly by a re-districting plan that would help to bring more of a pro-life legislature to California.
On the other hand, if the Catholic felt that both were bad, then voting for Brown might be the chose, as Brown might help the poor more that Meg Whitman.
I am offended that Jerry Brown uses a picture of Mother Teresa on his campaign website, and he is very forcefully in favor of abortion -- at least that is what his website claims...
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