Catholic Church asks Tom Daschle to stop calling himself a Catholic

Weekly Standard (via Matt Drudge) ^ | April 17, 2003 | SB00

[SB00]

TOM DASCHLE may no longer call himself a Catholic. The Senate minority leader and the highest ranking Democrat in Washington has been sent a letter by his home diocese of Sioux Falls, sources in South Dakota have told The Weekly Standard, directing him to remove from his congressional biography and campaign documents all references to his standing as a member of the Catholic Church.

This isn't exactly excommunication--which is unnecessary, in any case, since Daschle made himself ineligible for communion almost 20 years ago with his divorce and remarriage to a Washington lobbyist. The directive from Sioux Falls' Bishop Robert Carlson is rather something less than excommunication--and, at the same time, something more: a declaration that Tom Daschle's religious identification constitutes, in technical Catholic vocabulary, a grave public scandal. He was brought up as a Catholic, and he may still be in some sort of genuine mental and spiritual relation to the Church. Who besides his confessor could say? But Daschle's consistent political opposition to Catholic teachings on moral issues--abortion, in particular--has made him such a problem for ordinary churchgoers that the Church must deny him the use of the word "Catholic."

[lilylangtree]

Wow! The Catholic Church disowning a public figure (even a bad one like D'asshole) starts a seed of respect for the church.

[gov_bean_ counter]

How many 'buts' does it take before hypocrisy is rampant and we can't believe anything that is being said?

I don't know. How many "butts" are in the Democrat Party?

[bruin66]

Diane Feinstein's next!

Don't forget Lieberman...

[Coleus]

Dashole's Voting Record
http://capwiz.com/nrlc/bio/keyvotes/?id=535

Sign Petitions:
http://www.cathfam.org/cfexcom/Excom.html
Herod's Heroes
http://www.dailycatholic.org/issue/2001May/2001hh.htm

An Old Testament, Litany of Life
http://www.usccb.org/prolife/liturgy/litany.htm
Canon Law and Abortion
http://members.aol.com/abtrbng/canonl.htm
The Gospel of Life--Evangelium Vitae
http://www.yankeesamizdat.org/items/EvanVitae.html
Living the Gospel of Life--A Challenge to American Catholics
http://www.nccbuscc.org/prolife/gospel.htm
Christian Patriots for Life
http://www.cpforlife.org/pro_life_education.htm
4-D Ultrasound
http://www.gemedicalsystems.com/rad/us/4d/virtual.html

[\/\/ayne]

The American Life League has been working on this for some time, now their "Deadly Dozen" project is showing some fruit. Go their Defense of the Catholic Church page and click on "Ad Campaigns" then "Deadly Dozen" for the full saga.

[Coleus]

[hobbes1]

PING!!!!!

[xsmommy]

couldn't happen to a nicer midget....

[Coleus]

STOPP Planned Parenthood
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/892053/posts

[Robert A Cook PE]

PONG!

[eastsider]

The practice is rampant (it goes on in my own family, too), but it's still wrong.

[hobbes1]

ROTFL!

[dokmad]

"has made him such a problem for ordinary churchgoers that the Church must deny him the use of the word "Catholic."

I submit that he has been such a problem for ordinary citizens of the United States that we must deny him use of the words "Human Being" and "Fellow Americans".

[livius]

This is really impressive...Way to go!

[Hank Rearden]

Are we still permitted to call him a Daschole?

[swheats]

speechless bump

[Onelifetogive]

Don't forget Lieberman...

The Catholic Church's history with Jews is forced conversion (or death), not ex-communication. My wife's family traced their lineage to Spain and the Inquisition where their Jewish surname suddenly changed to a Catholic surname.

[SoothingDave]

Is it still the case that they should not receive communion? My father's marriage to my mother has never been annulled, yet he and his new wife joined a parish, and receive communion every week.

If the first marriage was not annulled, then he is still married to your mother. In which case his "new wife" is not his wife at all.

That's called "adultery," and people engaged in it are in a state of mortal sin. Taking communion in a state of sin is forbidden.

SD

[RAT Patrol]

I submit that he has been such a problem for ordinary citizens of the United States that we must deny him use of the words "Human Being" and "Fellow Americans". LOL!

[eastsider]

[P]eople engaged in it are in a state of mortal sin.

Objectively, yes.