Posted on 10/02/2008 8:04:11 AM PDT by flyfree
Vatican officials seldom single out political leaders who differ with the Church on issues like abortion rights or embryonic stem cell research. But now that the Vatican’s highest court is led by an American, the former St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke, we can expect things to get more explicit in Vatican City — at least when when it comes to U.S. politics.
Burke, who was named prefect of the Vatican’s Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature in June, told the Italian Catholic newspaper Avvenire that the U.S. Democratic Party risked “transforming itself definitively into a party of death for its decisions on bioethical issues.” He then attacked two of the party’s most high profile Catholics — vice presidential candidate Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — for misrepresenting Church teaching on abortion.
He said Biden and Pelosi, “while presenting themselves as good Catholics, have presented Church doctrine on abortion in a false and tendentious way.”
...Burke said pro-life Democrats were “rare” and that it saddened him that the party that helped “our immigrant parents and grandparents” prosper in America had changed so much over the years.
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When you publicly announce your sin in Geneva or wherever your church started to the masses, then you can throw stones.
AMEN! Keep up the good work.
It ain’t gonna be only Catholics. Any evangelical Christian church or those who live for Christ will be a target.
Yes, it is. You can see that in China, where they have to go ‘underground.’ Their growth over the years has been amazing.
You are absolutely right! M
Somehow I just KNEW when I got to the end of all these listings, it would be YOU. Good job. How do you find the time? Love, M
There are a considerable number of “social justice” catholics (small C on purpose) who attempt to equate pro-immigration, anti-war, basically socialist social policy with the issue of life.
We have a great priest who basically said—x thousand poor and homeless—bad; x million dead babies—far, far worse!!!
Love him!
I agree, Evangelicals will be targeted too. The difference is in the thing that makes the Catholic Church an attractive target: There is an administrative unity between different parishes, dioceses, states, etc. So if they get one of us, they get all of us.
Evangelicals are a little more dispersed, and I don’t think the Obama government is going to be able to get all of them quite as effectively. But it will be ruthless in going after individual Evangelical churches that are a particular “problem.”
I think orthodox Christians are in for some serious hard times.
“Then, why do they STILL receive the Sacrements??”
“Because they don’t mind committing sacrilege, and have found priests who will accommodate them.”
I was in Washington DC in October, 2003 for the Ten Commandments rally outside the Red Mass. One of my sisters was being arrested on a triviality ten feet from the presiding bishop, who was supposed to be the leader of all Christians on this Continent, and he turned away and wouldn’t even look at her being arrested, he didn’t care.
I later found out about this Liberal Bishop, Theodore McCarrick. He doesn’t care. He said to pro-lifers that they shouldn’t rail so much against abortion when there was a war in Iraq going on. Someone like him would have no problem giving Communion to John Kerry or Turd Kennedy.
I KNOW we are. I think this country is in for some hard times. I’ve read prophecies for several months now regarding an economic crash. Looks like it may be coming true. Pray!
Since that time both the Pope and Archbishop Burke, the new American head of the Vatican office charged with enforcing doctrine, have made it very clear that supporting the war and capital punishment is acceptable for Catholics, whereas Abortion is not. I think Cardinal McCarrick has been shown the true path this year.
what happened with McCarrick? I haven’t heard about him in a couple years.
On May 16, 2006, Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation of Cardinal McCarrick as Archbishop of Washington, DC, upon the latter's reaching the customary age limit, and appointed Donald Wuerl, Bishop of Pittsburgh, as the 6th Archbishop of Washington, DC. From May 16 until Wuerl's installation one month later on June 22, 2006, McCarrick served as the Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Washington, an interim post. Despite stepping down from his post, McCarrick is still eligible to participate in future papal conclaves that begin before his 80th birthday on July 7, 2010.
President George W. Bush and Laura Bush welcome outgoing Archbishop of Washington Cardinal McCarrick, left, the incoming Archbishop of Washington Donald Wuerl, right, and Papal Nuncio Pietro Sambi to the White House.On 12 March 2007 it was announced that Cardinal McCarrick will become a Counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies .
good riddance
McCarrick is no longer the bishop of DC, but his replacement isn’t much better, alas. Actually, I shouldn’t say that - I don’t think Wuerl, even though he puts being a Democrat before being a Catholic, would be quite that callous. McCarrick was an arrogant but sneaky jerk who even lied about what the Pope told him; Wuerl is just a coward.
oh what an improvement!
Well, if this is the end, there's really nothing that we can do about it. Prayer is important, but at this point I think that praying for endurance and wisdom and opportunities to witness is what's going to be needed. Get as many into the kingdom before the end.
I’m not sure it’s really the end. I think it’s more like judgement on America, made to bring people back to God. I pray for mercy for America all the time. We should always be praying for guidance and for God to bring those across our path that He is leading to salvation, and for the boldness to do something about it. Love, M
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