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"George Washington Hayduke" |
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09 Sep 2004 01:11:56 AM |
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Boy-raping pedophile grants Americans their voting rights |
Catholic Voters Given Leeway on Abortion Rights Issue
By Alan Cooperman
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A3534-2004Sep7?language=printer
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Vatican's arbiter of doctrinal
orthodoxy, has given Roman Catholic voters leeway under certain
circumstances to vote for politicians who support abortion rights,
U.S. Catholic officials said yesterday.
In keeping with Ratzinger's pronouncement, Archbishop Raymond Burke of
St. Louis last week clarified the remarks he made earlier this summer,
when he said any Catholic who votes for a politician who supports
abortion rights is committing a grave sin and must confess before
receiving communion.
Burke now says that, in theory, there could be "proportionate reasons"
that justify voting for someone who does not share the church's
position against abortion -- though in practice, he told the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch, "it is difficult to imagine" what such reasons would
be.
In other years, Ratzinger's intricately worded statement and U.S.
bishops' efforts to parse it might have escaped general notice. But in
this year's super-heated political climate, they could make a
difference to some voters in the tight race between Sen. John F. Kerry
(D-Mass.), a Catholic who favors abortion rights, and President Bush,
a conservative Protestant who has signed legislation aimed at
restricting abortions.
Ratzinger's statement came at the bottom of a one-page confidential
memorandum that he sent in June to Washington's Cardinal Theodore E.
McCarrick, head of a commission of U.S. bishops on Catholics in
political life. It was published in full by the Italian press this
summer, and the section dealing with voting was first reported
yesterday by the Detroit Free Press.
"A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so
unworthy to present himself for Holy Communion, if he were to
deliberately vote for a candidate precisely because of the candidate's
permissive stand on abortion and/or euthanasia," wrote Ratzinger, who
is head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican
department charged with ensuring fidelity to church teachings.
But Ratzinger added: "When a Catholic does not share a candidate's
stand in favor of abortion and/or euthanasia, but votes for that
candidate for other reasons, it is considered remote material
cooperation, which can be permitted in the presence of proportionate
reasons."
Susan Gibbs, a spokeswoman for McCarrick, said Ratzinger's statement
means that "a Catholic can never vote for a candidate precisely
because the candidate supports abortion."
"However, there could be circumstances where a voter, bearing in mind
the primacy of the life issue, supports the candidate for other
serious reasons," she said. "Each Catholic is called to consider these
issues from a faith perspective and to weigh the candidates' positions
very carefully before voting."
Gibbs added that "the church speaks on issues, not on individuals. The
church never tells someone who to vote for."
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| Title: Re: Boy-raping pedophile grants Americans their voting rights |
09 Sep 2004 09:08:39 AM |
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"George Washington Hayduke" <Hayduke@AWOLBush.com> wrote in message
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Catholic Voters Given Leeway on Abortion Rights Issue
By Alan Cooperman
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A3534-2004Sep7?language=printer
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Vatican's arbiter of doctrinal
orthodoxy, has given Roman Catholic voters leeway under certain
circumstances to vote for politicians who support abortion rights,
U.S. Catholic officials said yesterday.
In keeping with Ratzinger's pronouncement, Archbishop Raymond Burke of
St. Louis last week clarified the remarks he made earlier this summer,
when he said any Catholic who votes for a politician who supports
abortion rights is committing a grave sin and must confess before
receiving communion.
Burke now says that, in theory, there could be "proportionate reasons"
that justify voting for someone who does not share the church's
position against abortion -- though in practice, he told the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch, "it is difficult to imagine" what such reasons would
be.
Um..........there are dozens and dozens of IMPORTANT issues. If a candidate
agrees with you on all but one - and the opposition agrees on that one, but
is outrageously opposite, and corrupt, on ALL the others.....are you STUPID
enough to vote AGAINST the better of two men based on that one issue?
Ummmm.... abortion is in the bible .... and the people who are the chief
practitioners of the "service" are the clergy.
The RCC (and its representatives) .... now hold your hat ... are NOT the
ultimate, "perfect and sanctified" authority on everything.
They may pretend to represent God and Jesus ... but they are NOT God OR
Jesus!
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