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Coward.

From the article: He noted that he sometimes gets letters from Catholics demanding to know what he will do about such situations. His temptation, he said, was to reply with, "What are YOU doing about it? How is your voice heard?"

Does this clown really want to go there? I know plenty of Catholics who've housed pregnant women, paid their rent, bought them clothes and paid their electric bill.

He's the shepherd, he's the teacher, what the heck is he going to do about the pro-abort pols in his flock?

From the article: He noted that he sometimes gets letters from Catholics demanding to know what he will do about such situations. His temptation, he said, was to reply with, "What are YOU doing about it? How is your voice heard?"

Does this clown really want to go there? I know plenty of Catholics who've housed pregnant women, paid their rent, bought them clothes and paid their electric bill.

He's the shepherd, he's the teacher, what the heck is he going to do about the pro-abort pols in his flock?

Teaching is only one of the obligations of a bishop. One of the other obligations of a bishop (as symbolized by his crozier) is to administer discipline: not only for the protection of the flock, but also for the good of the soul of the one who is being disciplined. And THAT includes upholding Canon Law, including Canon 915 which states "Those who are excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion."

This canon treats two instances where members of the faithful are not to be admitted to Communion. The first deals with excommunication and interdicts -- ecclesiastical censures forbidding participation in the sacraments -- and the second refers to obstinate persistence in manifest grave sin.

In the Name of God, I ask you: Is abortion a "grave sin"? Is speaking for it, voting for it, and being an accomplice and accessory "manifest" participation in it? Is voting for it over and over again "obstinately persisting"?

Cardinal Francis Arinze, who, as Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, is the highest authority in the Catholic Church on the correct administration of the Blessed Sacrament, has REPEATEDLY stated that it is obvious that pro-abortion legislators must not be admitted to Holy Communion. And in 2004, a letter by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, (CDF) said that such legislators "must be refused" communion.

Coward.

You beat me to it.

"A response he made recently to questions about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have infuriated the far-right edge of the Catholic blogosphere, and drawn ire from some of the most conservative Catholic leaders of the anti-abortion movement."

LOL!! I'm on the FAR-RIGHT EDGE of something!!!