Posted on 04/28/2008 4:17:20 AM PDT by moderatewolverine
In the aftermath of the U.S. visit by Pope Benedict XVI, traditional Catholics are asking a troublesome question: Did pro-choice politicians receiving Communion at the papal Masses indicate the pope had softened on the abortion question? The answer is no. On the contrary, it reflected disobedience to Benedict by the archbishops of New York and Washington.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sens. John Kerry, Christopher Dodd and Edward M. Kennedy received Communion at Nationals Park in Washington, as did former mayor Rudolph Giuliani at Yankee Stadium in New York. Archbishop Donald Wuerl of Washington and Cardinal Edward Egan, archbishop of New York, invited them. Given choice seats, they took Communion as a matter of course.
Vatican sources say the pope has not retreated from his long-held position that pro-choice politicians should be deprived of Communion, but the decisions in Washington and New York were not his. The effect was to dull the pope’s messages of faith, obligation and compassion. In his Yankee Stadium homily, he talked of “authority” and “obedience”—acknowledging that “these are not easy words to speak nowadays.” They surely are not for four former presidential candidates and two princes of the church, representing Catholics who defy their faith’s doctrine on abortion.
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Being as I'm not a Catholic, you might think I had no dog in this fight. But as a Christian I have to chime in -- a willingness to publicly condone evildoers is a cancer on God's reputation and honor that must be dealt with severely. Come to think of it, I should be writing those two enablers, and warning them of certain wrath to come, unless they repent. Wrath from a Power far higher than their putative boss, good Pope Benedict.
These people are such heretics as are most that follow.
Pope Benedict will have the last laugh. Cardinal Egan in NY is rumored on his way out. Don’t be surprised if the Cardinal in DC is also replaced.
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