Posted on 05/25/2007 10:53:49 PM PDT by monomaniac
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A new national poll of adults shows that a majority of people disagree that Catholic politicians who support abortion should be denied communion at church. The poll comes after comments from Pope Benedict XVI saying they should and that pro-abortion politicians automatically excommunicated themselves.
Reacting to those comments, Rasmussen Reports conducted a telephone poll with 1,000 American adults on May 16 and 17.
They asked respondents, "The Pope believes that Catholic politicians who support abortion rights should be denied communion. Do you agree or disagree?"
According to the survey, 53 percent said they disagreed, 23 percent agreed and 24 percent said they were unsure or refused to answer the question.
Earlier this month, the Catholic Church leader visited Brazil for a series of speeches and meetings. On his way there, reporters asked him about the vote in Mexico City to legalize abortion there.
He said the politicians in the overwhelmingly Catholic nation removed themselves from the church and receiving communion.
"Yes, this excommunication was not an arbitrary one but is allowed by canon (church) law which says that the killing of an innocent child is incompatible with receiving communion, which is receiving the body of Christ," he said.
Later, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi explained that "Since excommunication hasn’t been declared by the Mexican bishops, the Pope has no intention himself of declaring it."
"Legislative action in favor of abortion is incompatible with participation in the Eucharist. Politicians exclude themselves from communion," he said.
This month, a group of 18 pro-abrotion members of Congress responded to the Pope with a letter they wrote saying that being personally opposed to abortion is good enough even if they vote for abortion in a public policy setting.
http://www.lifenews.com/int278.html
http://www.lifenews.com/nat3122.html
The Roman Catholic Church is NOT a democracy, especially not a democracy of non-Catholics.
What an absolutely absurd poll question!
Ironically, the priest I had in Georgia, whom I loved dearly and who marched against abortion, favored Kerry in the ‘04 elections.
You say “ironically.” I say “tragically.”
How did he justify that?
ping for your lists!
Who cares what they think, it is not their Business. The Church is not a Democracy for Cafeteria Catholics. Butt out DBM and Polling idiots.....You are insane with this Polling rot.
Point #1: Since when is the morality of an action dependent upon poll results? (Except if you are a Clintonista)
Point #2: Since when do the opinion of non-Catholics have anything to do with what the Catholic Church does? Presumably a poll of 1,000 American Adults would include non-Catholics. In fact would be mostly non-Catholics.
Exactly why is Bill Clinton receiving communion in a Cathollic church? He should know freakin’ well that as a non-Catholic (non-Orthodox Christian) he is not to receive Catholic communion.
In the same way that I would refuse to answer this poll question (because it is a ridiculously irrelevant question), I abstain from taking communion in the Catholic church—simply because church doctrine states that I shouldn’t.
and this would matter if truth was actually determined by majority opinion....
Because he's a presumptuous ass who has calculated (correctly it seems) that he will not be refused. Of course he knows better. He simply doesn't care.
I wonder if other moral questions in American society, such as whether or not two homosexuals can legally marry one another, can also be decided by the results of a poll?
“Presumably a poll of 1,000 American Adults would include non-Catholics”
Wouldn’t and shouldn’t matter if all of them were Catholics... The Catholic Church isn’t and shouldn’t be run via opinion polls.
How many polled are Catholics registered in a diocese?
See my point #1, above.
That picture makes me ill.
I’m too frightened for the American Catholic Church to speculate.
How utterly bizzare!
Non-Catholics polled about what the Catholic Church should do regarding a purely internal matter.
I am not a Catholic and even I find the arrogance of this question amazing.
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