Posted on 10/29/2021 12:01:19 PM PDT by ebb tide
Cardinal Burke explained that he was speaking out because the issue was “a matter of life and death for the unborn and of eternal salvation for the Catholic politicians involved.”
On the eve of President Joe Biden’s meeting with Pope Francis, a U.S. cardinal said that Catholic bishops have a “sacred duty” to apply canon law by advising pro-abortion politicians not to receive Holy Communion.
In a 2,800-word statement issued on Oct. 28, Cardinal Raymond Burke recalled his efforts to persuade Catholic politicians to defend the lives of unborn children while serving as the bishop of La Crosse, Wisconsin, and later of St. Louis, Missouri.
He said that the experience had convinced him that the “common refrain” that more dialogue was necessary to achieve a breakthrough was “at best, naïve.”
The 73-year-old cardinal made the intervention ahead of the U.S. bishops’ plenary assembly in Baltimore, Maryland.
He said that participants in the USCCB’s Fall General Assembly on Nov. 15-18 would discuss the application of Canon 915 of the Catholic Church’s Code of Canon Law.
The canon says: “Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.”
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Good luck with that. Your leader Pope Fubar never met an abortionist he didn’t like 🤪
He has spoken out many times about this...you are incorrect.
That may be so, but it is important that faithful bishops speak out so that the truth can be set out for the faithful to see. God bless Cardinal Burke and other strong and faithful bishops who keep up the good fight in the public square rather that being complicit or succumbing to defeatism or despair.
Not true.....
White House: Pope Francis ‘Has Spoken Differently’ than Biden on Abortion
Pope Francis has previously called abortion “murder,” compared abortion to “hiring a hitman,” said that unborn victims of abortion bear the face of Jesus, and decried efforts to promote abortion as an “essential service” during the pandemic.
Okay, but I do not think Biden and Pelosi will listen.
I fear Cardinal Burke may wake up tomorrow reassigned to a new diocese of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station
He never spoken about it with Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Jeffery Sachs, Emma Bonino, nor Joseph Robinette Biden.
It is you who are incorrect.
Or John Kerry.
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