Cardinal says politicians supporting abortion should be EXCOMMUNICATED. YES

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Catholic Politicians Who Support Abortion Should Be Excommunicated, Cardinal Says
Michael Foust | ChristianHeadlines.com Contributor | Friday, April 9, 2021

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Catholic politicians who support abortion rights are guilty of apostasy and should be excommunicated and denied communion, an American cardinal says.


Cardinal Raymond Burke made the comments on his website, saying that “many Catholics and non-Catholics” have asked how “Catholic politicians and civil officials” who “publicly and obstinately defend and promote the practice of abortion on demand” can “approach to receive Holy Communion.”

Burke’s answer: They should not receive communion.


Burke did not mention any politician by name, although the issue has become more prominent with Joe Biden, a pro-choice Catholic, in the White House.

“Those who publicly and obstinately violate the moral law are, at least, in a state of apostasy, that is, they have effectively abandoned the faith by the obstinate refusal, in practice, to live in accord with fundamental truths of faith and morals (cf. can. 751),” Burke wrote. “An apostate from the faith incurs automatically the penalty of excommunication (cf. can. 1364). The Bishop of such a person must verify the conditions for the declaration of the penalty of excommunication, which has been automatically incurred.”

Burke is one of about 125 living cardinals in the world. Cardinals are directly below the pope in the Catholic hierarchy.

Such politicians, Burke said, also “may in heresy” if they “obstinately deny or doubt the truth about the intrinsic evil of abortion.”

Withholding communion from pro-choice politicians, Burke argued, is not done for political purposes.

“On the contrary, it is the Church’s solemn responsibility to safeguard the holiness of the Holy Eucharist, to prevent the faithful from committing sacrilege, and to prevent scandal among the faithful and other persons of good will,” he wrote. “It is rather the Catholic politician, who publicly and obstinately promotes what is contrary to the moral law and yet dares to receive sacrilegiously Holy Communion, who uses the Holy Eucharist for political purposes. In other words, the politician presents himself or herself as a devout Catholic, while the truth is completely otherwise.”


Related:

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Michael Foust has covered the intersection of faith and news for 20 years. His stories have appeared in Baptist Press, Christianity Today, The Christian Post, the Leaf-Chronicle, the Toronto Star and the Knoxville News-Sentinel.

[Dee]

EXCOMMUNICATED! Which will accomplish what? The same organization that hides pedophile priests, is indignant, insulted, and judgemental of politicians who support abortion.
Wow, that'll be a DC game changer. Them pro abortion politicians better straighten up.

[Lloyd Smale]

so what do you think the church should do? Hire hit men to kill them? What does your church do about those polititians?? What does your church do about the pedophiles it hid?? Kind of comical really. No matter if the church takes a stance that is in line with you or not you still bash.

EXCOMMUNICATED! Which will accomplish what? The same organization that hides pedophile priests, is indignant, insulted, and judgemental of politicians who support abortion.
Wow, that'll be a DC game changer. Them pro abortion politicians better straighten up.

[billy_56081]

I will bet the demonrats will counter by threatening the church's tax exempt status.

[Lloyd Smale]

Bill you hit on the real enemy. What they want is us to waste ridiculous time bashing fellow Christians while the socialist atheists take over the country and the world. its a sad day when someone stands up to abortion and a fellow Christian makes a joke out of it or even worse attacks him. The REAL EMEMYS are at the gate!!!!

I will bet the demonrats will counter by threatening the church's tax exempt status.

[Dee]

I will bet the demonrats will counter by threatening the church's tax exempt status.

They have used that strategy in the past. Lyndon Baines Johnson of Texas came up with that strategy with the Johnson Amendment. The southern churches were giving him hell from the pulpit about his corruption, and the Johnson Amendment shut'em up.

[BUGEYE]

Personally I am against a Church going political.
Here in the south black churches don't preach against sin, they preach against whites.
As far as the catholic church excommunicating politicians, ALL democrats/communists are going to hell anyway because they slap GOD in the face at every opportunity.
And, I would guess that Church officials from ANY denomination who turn a blind eye to child abuse or who purposely hide the perps, is hell bound.

That includes protestant preachers, elders, and cardinals and popes.

JESUS doesn't take plea deals.

[Lloyd Smale]

cant argue with any of that.

Personally I am against a Church going political.
Here in the south black churches don't preach against sin, they preach against whites.
As far as the catholic church excommunicating politicians, ALL democrats/communists are going to hell anyway because they slap GOD in the face at every opportunity.
And, I would guess that Church officials from ANY denomination who turn a blind eye to child abuse or who purposely hide the perps, is hell bound.

That includes protestant preachers, elders, and cardinals and popes.

JESUS doesn't take plea deals.

[pastorp]

so what do you think the church should do? Hire hit men to kill them? What does your church do about those polititians?? What does your church do about the pedophiles it hid?? Kind of comical really. No matter if the church takes a stance that is in line with you or not you still bash.

EXCOMMUNICATED! Which will accomplish what? The same organization that hides pedophile priests, is indignant, insulted, and judgemental of politicians who support abortion.
Wow, that'll be a DC game changer. Them pro abortion politicians better straighten up.

I thought Bill said when a person posts to a person instead of a topic that was a personal attack. Hope this private war does not start again.

[Dee]

so what do you think the church should do? Hire hit men to kill them? What does your church do about those polititians?? What does your church do about the pedophiles it hid?? Kind of comical really. No matter if the church takes a stance that is in line with you or not you still bash.

EXCOMMUNICATED! Which will accomplish what? The same organization that hides pedophile priests, is indignant, insulted, and judgemental of politicians who support abortion.
Wow, that'll be a DC game changer. Them pro abortion politicians better straighten up.

I thought Bill said when a person posts to a person instead of a topic that was a personal attack. Hope this private war does not start again.

Sure you do,

Proverbs Chapter 15 verse 18. A wrathful man stirreth up strife,