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St. Louis Archbishop Orders Priests to Preach on Embryo Research |
St. Louis Archbishop Orders Priests to Preach on Embryo Research
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/nov/05112805.html
Lifesite - Niagara Falls,NY,USA
ST. LOUIS, November 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Archbishop Raymond Burke
of St. Louis has again stepped up to the pro-life plate missed by many
elsewhere in the Catholic hierarchy. Burke ordered the priests of his St.
Louis Archdiocese to preach on Sunday about why embryonic stem cell
research (ESCR) cannot be allowed and to instruct the Catholic faithful not
to support it. The direction is in response to a petition about to
circulate that would amend the state constitution to protect ESCR.
In a move that is bound to stir up the usual secularist suspects with
screeches of “separation of Church and state,” Burke has issued a letter to
his priests saying, “The church has a moral duty to inform its members of
the moral dimensions of their actions.”
During the 2004 presidential campaign, Burke distinguished himself as one
of the few US bishops willing to weather the wrath of the ACLU and media by
saying that Democrat candidate John Kerry would be refused holy Communion
in his diocese for supporting abortion on demand.
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You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
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American Theocrats - Past and Present
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The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
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respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
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