[happytobealive]

What the Cardinal thinks:

Fr. Jeffrey Monforton, secretary to Cardinal Adam Maida, who said Granholm was a “Catholic in good standing” and that Granholm was not “pro-abortion per se but does not think abortion should be illegal.”

This quote was taken in reference to a talk Granholm gave at a Catholic grade school on how to be good: http://www.credopub.com/archives/2000/iss20000228/20000228p08.htm

[Arthur McGowan]

She said she received a phone call from Fr. Jeffrey Monforton, secretary to Cardinal Adam Maida, who said Granholm was a “Catholic in good standing” and that Granholm was not “pro-abortion per se but does not think abortion should be illegal.”

Fr. Jeffrey Monforton is part of the problem. The Catholic Church teaches not merely that abortion is a bad private choice, as Fr. Monforton and the pro-abortion politicians say. The Catholic Church teaches that abortion must be illegal because it is a crime against an innocent person. The pro-abortion "Catholics" who claim to "accept the Church's teaching" on abortion because they themselves would never have one, are lying about what the Church teaches. In opposing making abortion illegal, they are directly rejecting what the Church teaches.

Granholm is technically a "Catholic in good standing," but she is a notorious public sinner and a notorious dissenter from Catholic teaching. Thus, she should not be given Communion, should never be allowed to function as a lector, and should be required to make a public retraction of her pro-abortion views and actions before being allowed to participate in the Sacraments. Any bishop who will not require this of her makes himself objectively pro-abortion.