To: Canticle_of_Deborah; Fred; murphE; Gerard.P; vox_freedom
Why must you make us go through the exercise of linking the article?
The Star Bulletin article on Archbishop Levada
Tactics may be different, but his goal is obvious from the article. If I can observe, for the pro-abortion political leaders in Europe, they have no fear or denial of Communion. I disagree with his take, but I don't have his job. It boils down to considering a Politician the same an an obstinate sinner.
His perspective on Abortion is the Church position:
"When we talk about abortion, from the perspective of many of us, we are talking about an issue of human life and justice toward unborn human beings. Our teaching from the beginning of Christianity has been that God forms life in the mother's womb, and it should be respected and protected."
on same-sex marriage:
"I think it is one of most significant challenges to American culture that has arisen in quite a while. We should debate it with as much insight as we can. I think it will undermine a key foundation of society, marriage and family if same-sex marriage is approved."
Nothing heterodox.
164 posted on
05/15/2005 4:03:10 PM PDT by
Dominick
("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." - JP II)
To: Dominick
Nothing heterodox.Except his failure to heed the words of St. Paul and Rome (was it Cardinal Arinze?) which instruct priests to deny Communion to pro-aborts.
Politicians like Barbara Boxer and Nancy Pelosi who campaign for the right to stick a fork in a baby's skull and remove its brains are obstinate sinners Dominick. There is no "dialogue" with sin.
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