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  • Living in sin? NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo in trouble with Vatican official for ‘public concubinage’

    02/23/2011 3:21:56 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 53 replies
    The Daily Caller ^ | 02/23/2011 | Will Rahn
    New York’s budget-cutting Gov. Andrew Cuomo may have found himself in hot water with the Catholic Church. Dr. Edward Peters, a consultant to the Vatican’s highest court of canon law, told CNS News that Cuomo committed an “objectively sacrilegious” act that “produces grave scandal” when he received communion on New Year’s Day. Cuomo, a Democrat, is pro-choice and supports gay marriage, two positions the church vocally opposes. Of serious concern to Peters, however, is that Cuomo, who divorced Robert Kennedy’s daughter Kerry eight years ago, is currently living with Food Network host Sandra Lee. “Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York,...
  • Is Bishop Howard Hubbard Cooperating In Evil (with a rebuttal)

    02/06/2010 4:46:04 AM PST · by NYer · 4 replies · 343+ views
    American Catholic ^ | February 5, 2010
    Formal cooperation in another’s evil act (that is, undertaking to help expressly another to perform an act known to be evil) is itself evil. Davis, Moral and Pastoral Theology (1938), I: 341-342. There are no exceptions to this rule; no supervening circumstances can ever render formal cooperation in evil good.The use of [illegal] drugs “inflicts very grave damage on human health and life [and] . . . is a grave offense. Clandestine production and trafficking in drugs are scandalous practices. They constitute direct co-operation in evil, since they encourage people to practices gravely contrary to the moral law.” CCC...