Posted on 09/21/2013 6:08:55 AM PDT by marshmallow
LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept. 20, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a wide-ranging interview, Cardinal Raymond Burke has issued an emphatic call for pro-abortion Catholic politicians like House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to be denied Communion.
The cardinal also spoke about the rapid advance of the homosexual agenda, the decline in catechesis that, he says, has crippled the Church’s response to pressing moral issues of the day, and the growing danger of Christian persecution under an increasingly “totalitarian” government. Cardinal Raymond Burke
The cardinal, who heads the Vatican’s Apostolic Signatura and is America’s most senior prelate, made the comments in an interview published earlier this month by The Catholic Servant, a Minneapolis-based newspaper, and republished by The Wanderer.
Asked about Pelosi, he said, “Certainly this is a case when Canon 915 must be applied.”
Canon 915 states that those who are “obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.”
“This is a person who obstinately, after repeated admonitions, persists in a grave sin — cooperating with the crime of procured abortion — and still professes to be a devout Catholic,” the cardinal said. “I fear for Congresswoman Pelosi if she does not come to understand how gravely in error she is. I invite her to reflect upon the example of St. Thomas More who acted rightly in a similar situation even at the cost of his life.”
The cardinal also urged the faithful to practice “much prayer and fasting” to counter the growing threat of the homosexual agenda.
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I wonder if this will be seen as a message to the bishops of San Francisco and Washington, D.C. and Maryland that they are to instruct their priests that she is not to be given communion?
Seriously, things have become so bad of late that the church really needs to bring back the rite of excommunication.
Saw her a couple days ago on TV, and possibly it was just the high definition, but she looked dreadful. Maybe sin shows [more] through outstretched pores?
Her and dufus Biden, too. And the rest of the “false prophets who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” Matt 7, 15
Can you please explain why the church continues to look the other way on all the politicians who publicly profess to be devout Catholics yet support and defend even late-term abortion and same-sex marriage? I was so hoping that when Pelosi and Biden went to Rome for the coronation of Pope Francis, they would be turned away when they went up for Communion, but they weren’t. That would have been the perfect opportunity to make a point, but instead, nothing happened!
Why doesn’t the Vatican excommunicate them and loudly explain why? To me, allowing this to continue in such a public way is tacit approval. How can the Church expect the rest of us to respect and obey if this is allowed?
Every time I hear Pelosi spew her lies about the Church, I just get so angry and, frankly, the lack of response from those in authority is causing me doubt and I don’t know how much longer I can continue believing in a church that allows this. (I left the Methodist church for that very reason.) Thank you very much if you can explain this to me.
I love Cardinal Burke - I know he is doing great things on a bigger stage, but I miss him here in St. Louis :)
BTTT!
In the ritual the Bishop would pronounce:
We separate him, together with his accomplices and abettors, from the precious body and blood of the Lord and from the society of all Christians; we exclude him from our Holy Mother, the Church in Heaven, and on earth; we declare him excommunicate and anathema; we judge him damned, with the Devil and his angels and all the reprobate, to eternal fire until he shall recover himself from the toils of the devil and return to amendment and to penitence.After reciting this The bishop would ring a bell to evoke a death toll, close a holy book to symbolize the ex-communicant's separation from the church, and snuff out a candle or candles, knocking them to the floor to represent the target's soul being extinguished and removed from the light of God.
Just go to Dolan. He’ll give the Host to anyone, and have a big yuk fest about it afterwards.
Cardinal Burke cannot remove Wuerl, only the Pope can.
Nah, she'll sizzle and melt, thus causing some ugly blotches on the marble floor. Plus, the stench!
The hypocrisy is about the worst sin of the RC Church in the US. It's got rules, but those rules don't apply to how the elite govern.
I agree with you. That ritual no longer is in effect, but I wish it was.
Precisely. Why doesn’t he “remove the wicked man from among yourselves” if Wuerl permits and therefore shares in the “grave moral sin” of Pelosi? Isn’t that what the Catechism says?
Culture has drifted so far away from Jesus it spends to much time trying to understand and justify evil. The church has to realize it does should not accept evil.
to read later.
First, just because those in authority are giving scandal doesn’t mean you have the right to give in to it.
In the case of some bishops, the reason is simple: They are Democrats. Also, the Church was systematically addicted to government money by Cardinal Bernardin and his cronies. (Bernardin (dead) was a pro-abortion Democrat homosexual. McCarrick (retired), same thing.)
In the case of the well-intentioned, it’s their age. They grew up in an age of incredible freedom for the Church. They were young adults when Kennedy was elected. They are still living in that dream world created by Joe Kennedy, where Catholics fit comfortably into the Democrat party and the society run by the Democrat party.
In many cases, it’s just plain fear and cowardice. Cardinal Wuerl likes federal money, and being invited to the best parties, and he’s blackmailable. His world would come crashing down if he confronted pro-abortion “Catholics” in any meaningful way.
NOTHING that vicious, stupid, or cowardly bishops may do justifies leaving the Church! The Catholic Church is Christ, and Christ is the Church.
“Why does Cardinal Burke not take steps to have Cardinal Wuerl removed as Ordinary of the Archdiocese of Washington?”
Because Donna’s bosses haven’t wanted her removed?
The reason is simple....the heart and soul of the Catholic church hierarchy is hypocrisy. Burke has been around long enough to remember priest Robert Drinin, congressman and advocate for legalized abortion. What happened to him? Highly honored in life and death by Catholic institutions despite or because of his “grave moral sins”.
Burke can blather on and on but so what? He’s “spoken out”, “taken a forceful position”, posed in his pretty red costume...who cares?
Since by her own public statement of faith she no longer accepts Catholic teaching she should be excommunicated.
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