Burke was sent to Rome because his combativeness, divisiveness, and polarizing comments were hurting not only the two dioceses in which he served, but the image of the Church in America.
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Burke was sent to Rome because his combativeness, divisiveness, and polarizing comments were hurting not only the two dioceses in which he served, but the image of the Church in America.
The prefect of the Apostolic Signature, Archbishop Raymond Burke, said this week that Catholics, especially politicians who publically defend abortion, should not receive Communion, and that ministers of Communion should be responsibly charitable in denying it to them if they ask for it, until they have reformed their lives.
In an interview with the magazine, Radici Christiane, Archbishop Burke pointed out that there is often a lack of reverence at Mass when receiving Communion. Receiving the Body and Blood of Christ unworthily is a sacrilege, he warned. If it is done deliberately in mortal sin it is a sacrilege.
To illustrate his point, he referred to public officials who, with knowledge and consent, uphold actions that are against the Divine and Eternal moral law. For example, if they support abortion, which entails the taking of innocent and defenseless human lives. A person who commits sin in this way should be publicly admonished in such a way as to not receive Communion until he or she has reformed his life, the archbishop said.
Life and Dignity of the Human Person
The Catholic Church proclaims that human life is sacred and that the dignity of the human person is the foundation of a moral vision for society. This belief is the foundation of all the principles of our social teaching. In our society, human life is under direct attack from abortion and euthanasia. The value of human life is being threatened by cloning, embryonic stem cell research, and the use of the death penalty. Catholic teaching also calls on us to work to avoid war. Nations must protect the right to life by finding increasingly effective ways to prevent conflicts and resolve them by peaceful means. We believe that every person is precious, that people are more important than things, and that the measure of every institution is whether it threatens or enhances the life and dignity of the human person.
Call to Family, Community, and Participation
The person is not only sacred but also social. How we organize our societyin economics and politics, in law and policy directly affects human dignity and the capacity of individuals to grow in community. Marriage and the family are the central social institutions that must be supported and strengthened, not undermined. We believe people have a right and a duty to participate in society, seeking together the common good and well-being of all, especially the poor and vulnerable.
Rights and Responsibilities
The Catholic tradition teaches that human dignity can be protected and a healthy community can be achieved only if human rights are protected and responsibilities are met. Therefore, every person has a fundamental right to life and a right to those things required for human decency. Corresponding to these rights are duties and responsibilities--to one another, to our families, and to the larger society.
Option for the Poor and Vulnerable
A basic moral test is how our most vulnerable members are faring. In a society marred by deepening divisions between rich and poor, our tradition recalls the story of the Last Judgment (Mt 25:31-46) and instructs us to put the needs of the poor and vulnerable first.
The Dignity of Work and the Rights of Workers
The economy must serve people, not the other way around. Work is more than a way to make a living; it is a form of continuing participation in Gods creation. If the dignity of work is to be protected, then the basic rights of workers must be respected--the right to productive work, to decent and fair wages, to the organization and joining of unions, to private property, and to economic initiative.
Solidarity
We are one human family whatever our national, racial, ethnic, economic, and ideological differences. We are our brothers and sisters keepers, wherever they may be. Loving our neighbor has global dimensions in a shrinking world. At the core of the virtue of solidarity is the pursuit of justice and peace. Pope Paul VI taught that if you want peace, work for justice.1 The Gospel calls us to be peacemakers. Our love for all our sisters and brothers demands that we promote peace in a world surrounded by violence and conflict.
Care for Gods Creation
We show our respect for the Creator by our stewardship of creation. Care for the earth is not just an Earth Day slogan, it is a requirement of our faith. We are called to protect people and the planet, living our faith in relationship with all of Gods creation. This environmental challenge has fundamental moral and ethical dimensions that cannot be ignored.
This summary should only be a starting point for those interested in Catholic social teaching. A full understanding can only be achieved by reading the papal, conciliar, and episcopal documents that make up this rich tradition. For a copy of the complete text of Sharing Catholic Social Teaching: Challenges and Directions (No. 5-281) and other social teaching documents, call 800-235-8722.
I'm w/ ya all the way on that one, dude.I did read it and I agree with it but I am also sick and tired of people saying "there is no pro-life candidate in this race"
My point is:
There was NEVER a pro-life candidate in ANY race and, by extention, pro-lifer banging on only one party is strictly a political thing masquarating as a moral issue.
McCain has no plans to end abortion. His plan is to make it a state problem, which means abortion will always be legal somewhere in the USA.
McCain is pro-federalism, not pro-life.
Bush is actually pro-life, and yet even he was unable to change our policies of abortion being allowed everywhere, and for everyone at anytime during the pregnancy.
If Bush who is really pro-life couldn't do it, then a luke-warm pro-baby-killing-for-research guy like McCain certainly isn't going to do it.
Geee... thanks for clearing that up. And here i was all confused by conflicting scientific studies into the matter.they get abortions because they feel unloved and worthless. No amount of legislation can help to change this, this work is for those willing to go to the women one on one and help them.
What did you want Bush to do?
I mean, seriously?
If you vote for Obama, you will also be supporting partial birth abortions.
I concur 100%.they get abortions because they feel unloved and worthless. No amount of legislation can help to change this, this work is for those willing to go to the women one on one and help them.
studies schmuddies. Get your head out of academia and back into the real world. It ain't rocket science man. And you are very welcome. Happy to help.Geee... thanks for clearing that up. And here i was all confused by conflicting scientific studies into the matter.
I think there will never be conclusive studies, because may people don't really know themselves or their ultimate motivations for things. We'll get reasons like "I wanted a career after spending so much money on college", "I couldn't afford a baby right now", "I want time to pursue my own goals and dreams", "I don't have health insurance"...but that's surface motivation. Those are reasons for regretting being pregnant, not reasons for one to reject adoptioning out or whatever and choosing instead to kill their own child.Geee... thanks for clearing that up. And here i was all confused by conflicting scientific studies into the matter.
well said, and to quote the bumper sticker wisdom which does apply in this case, women deserve better than abortion.I think there will never be conclusive studies, because may people don't really know themselves or their ultimate motivations for things. We'll get reasons like "I wanted a career after spending so much money on college", "I couldn't afford a baby right now", "I want time to pursue my own goals and dreams", "I don't have health insurance"...but that's surface motivation. Those are reasons for regretting being pregnant, not reasons for one to reject adoptioning out or whatever and choosing instead to kill their own child.
I don't thing those things aren't also worth looking at and examining. I think they defintely are!!! However, without a wholistic approach to unintentional pregnancies--things really won't improve all that much.
This is only tangentially related- but there are things wounding women in our country...there is an absolute crisis of sexual abuse and assault in our country. And while most abortions are NOT a direct product of rape or sexual assault, women are left decimated in their sexuality by this abuse. Statistics relate that around 1/4 of women are sexually abused as children and 1/5 of women age 18 and up are raped--and my guess would be that these statistics skew low since other statistics say that 60% of sexual assaults go unreported. The women of our country are set up for self loathing, they are set up to be in a place to kill their oen babies.
You act like it's only young girls having abortions. Silly. Women of all child bearing ages are having abortions. You are still just scratching the surface. Even if the older women having abortions are doing it because they haven't developed/matured emotionally, it's still an issue of self esteem, the root cause being what Shannon described.I think that many young women have sex because they believe that their beautiful young spirits are "not enough" to attract or maintain a relationship with a boy in this age where sex is so available and everybody's doing it.
Sixteen year olds prey on thirteen and fourteen year olds, who, flattered that an older boy is interested in them, think they have to act like an "older girl" to keep them.
I could go on and on.....
Adolescence is such a precarious time emotionally, and the pressures to be sexually active are so great.
I believe that many young women would wait if they had their druthers.
David, I have a hard time understanding the logic behind applying 'remote material cooperation' in some situations and not others. The whole point of qualifying it as remote is to distinguish the degree of guilt one has for their informal (material) cooperation with the act.