Cardinal Pell to Pro-Abortion Politicians: "How come you feel [you can] to go to Communion?"

Life Site news ^ | May 19, 2006 | John Jalsevac

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Home | Previous Page | Source URL: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/may/06051901.html LifeSiteNews.com Friday May 19, 2006 Cardinal Pell to Pro-Abortion Politicians: "How come you feel that you're able to go to Communion?" By John Jalsevac FRONT ROYAL, VA, May 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Australia's Cardinal George Pell, was in Front Royal, Virginia over the weekend celebrating Mass and giving the Commencement address at Christendom College.  LifeSiteNews.com interviewed the Australian Church leader at the college last Friday.  This is the second part of that three-part interview. Cardinal Pell: " . . . I mean, we believe that Christ is the Son of God and I believe that if we follow what he says, either popular or unpopular, you're much more likely to be blessed than if you set out to tailor His message-cut bits out of it or improve other bits. The Good Lord has made his instructions." LifeSiteNews.com: Speaking of cutting out teachings from Catholic teachings. There has been a recent problem of Catholic politicians and world leaders, or at least so-called Catholic politicians, who publicly claim that they are faithful Catholics, clearly directly contradicting the faith. What would you say to those politicians, and what can we as lay people do about these? Cardinal Pell: "Well, I think as lay people…my job as Archbishop is significantly different, and you've got to be a little careful there, not to appear to be just simply politically partisan. But if they're very significant issues, I think the lay people should tell the politicians that they're disappointed, and do it regularly, consistently and reasonably, not with hostility or a lack of charity." LifeSiteNews.com: What would you say to the politicians themselves who are doing or saying these things? Cardinal Pell: "Well, I'd say if they do it on a number of really significant issues, you'd have to bring into question just to what extent they are straight up and down the line Catholics, and to what extent they remain Catholic. I mean, if they call themselves Catholics and on every significant public issue they don't line up with us, well at the very minimum I think they should go quiet on the Catholic labelling. "I mean there are other questions about whether or not they should be refused Communion, and they are difficult questions. I think if a person is regularly supporting pro-abortion legislation in a way that is very, very difficult to divorce that voting from an explicitly pro-abortion attitude I think you should ask them, how come you feel that you're able to go to Communion?" The first part of the interview can be viewed here: Cardinal Pell on Sexual Abuse Scandal: "Obviously Connected with Problem of Homosexuality" http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/may/06051811.html

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The day the justice system can guarantee that a sentence to life in prison means just that. I will agree that recourse to the death penalty is unnecessary.

But a society to protect itself must preserve that recourse when it knows a killer may very well be turned loose on parole if the sentence is not death.

And considering the length of time a prisoner spends on death row, the seemingly endless appeals and the new use of DNA to exonerate the innocent. I think we give more than enough chances for the guilty to have their sentences commuted and for the unjustly imprisoned to be released.

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**Cardinal Pell to Pro-Abortion Politicians: "How come you feel [you can] to go to Communion?" **

The question we had for "flip-flop" Kerry.

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I feel that we are a far cry from a situation where we can feel comfortable that we are protected from dangerous murderers by life sentences.

Sirhan Sirhan was just up for parole; Manson I believe has been.

I'm not even comforted by life without parole, as legislatures or the courts can choose to go soft at any time.

Then there's always the chance of commuted of death sentences through gubernatorial or presidential pardons. We came close to that in Ohio with Dick Celeste in about 1990 when he set free several female accomplices to, and likely participants in, brutal murders. I believe there was nothing stopping him from going one step further and freeing the murderers themselves if he had chosen to.

I agree that the death penalty should be pretty rare, but NOT never. Not Bundy? Not McVeigh? Not Moussaoui? Not Osama?

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Suspended Abortion Center Gave RU 486 to Woman With Late-Term Pregnancy

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
May 19, 2006

Birmingham, AL (LifeNews.com) -- More details are emerging in a case involving an abortion business that has had its medical license suspended by the Alabama state health department. That happened when a member of the staff gave a woman in her third trimester of pregnancy the dangerous RU 486 abortion drug.

The Alabama State Board of Health issued an emergency order Wednesday suspending the abortion center's license.

That happened because the abortion center staff member was not a physician, the woman was in a tenuous medical condition and was given an abortion drug instead of emergency treatment, and because the center tried to hide its actions.

"That's not something we do very often," Dr. Donald Williamson, state health officer, told the Birmingham News. "The incident involved multiple and serious violations of the rules. There was no other means to address it except an emergency suspension."

The abortion drug is meant for women to use early in pregnancy, but the Summit Medical Center abortion facility staff member gave the woman the drug even though she was late in pregnancy.

It resulted in a botched abortion and the woman later delivered a 6-pound, 4-ounce stillborn child at a hospital.

"She was almost certainly in the third trimester and near term," Williamson told the News about the woman.

"What's clear here is that it wasn't used appropriately," he said of the abortion drug, which is only legal for a licensed physician to dispense.

According to the suspension order LifeNews.com obtained, the woman had a "critical and dangerously high" blood pressure reading of 182/129.

"That in and of itself would have demanded immediate medical attention," Williamson said. Instead, the staff went ahead with the abortion.

Summit's license has been suspended for 90 days and a hearing on the incident has been set for June 20 and the abortion center could lose its medical license for good.

"Any action is possible as a result of the hearing," Williamson told the Birmingham paper. "The license could be reinstated. They could be facing a permanent revocation of the license."

"This is the first time I've ever ordered an emergency suspension for an abortion clinic," Williamson added. "I've done it for assisted living facilities, in cases where the staff might have left the patients unattended."

Summit Medical Centers operates seven abortion businesses in five states and has another abortion center in Montgomery, Alabama.

It is the abortion business that employed Malachy Dehenre, who lost his medical license in both Alabama and Mississippi because of botched abortions.

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The Popes personal opinion is not the same as doctrine

One of the few criticisms about the current catechism is that it injected the popes personal opinion on the matter of the death penalty. Numerous Catholic authors have pointed out that this opinion really does not belong there, since it is at odds with previous staements by previous popes as well as Church history.

Hope that really clears things up...

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The Evangelium Vitae contains all you need to know. The Pope speaks for the Chruch, not for himself.