Posted on 03/07/2010 9:07:46 AM PST by NoRedTape
"Pro-life leader, Randall Terry, in conjunction with the group Vanguard of St. Catherine of Sienna, is heading to Rome, March 10, for a week of meetings with a number of key Vatican officials as a follow-up to their successful 2009 summit which demonstrated the reluctance of many US bishops to implement Pope Benedict's edict to deny Catholic pro-abortion politicians Holy Communion and the need for the Vatican officials to speak out in support of Benedict's ban."
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"...If Mother Teresa is correct in saying that abortion is the greatest evil in America today, then certainly the promotion of abortion by "Catholic" politicians (and the failure of most American bishops to censure them) is its greatest scandal. And yet as dire as the situation seems, the winning strategy in this life and death struggle for souls is really quite simple. In dioceses where the cardinal or bishop enforces Ratzinger's 2004 "Worthiness to Receive Holy Communion" decree to withhold Communion from pro-choice politicians, such as Bishop Tobin's denial of Rep. Patrick Kennedy, not only are the uninformed warned and the faithful encouraged, but in RI's case, Kennedy's not even running for re-election. On the other hand, in the sees of the likes of Pelosi, Biden and Kerry where the bishop's stand is lax, opposition to the Gospel of Life grows, and Catholic support for pro-choice politicians, including abortion's greatest champion, Barack Obama, strengthens....."
(Excerpt) Read more at renewamerica.com ...
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