politically I don't...WTF!
So personally I could be for smoking pot yet or cheating on your spouse yet publically call for it's demise????
Sounds like pretty safe way to play both sides of the fence!!!!!!
Burke would refuse communion to Kerry
By Patricia Rice
Post-Dispatch Religion Writer
01/30/2004
© 2004 St. Louis Post-Dispatch
If Sen. John Kerry were to stand in Archbishop Raymond L. Burke's communion line Sunday, Burke would bless him without giving him communion.
Kerry, a Catholic, has voted to support abortion rights, contrary to Catholic Church long-held teaching opposing abortion.
"I would have to admonish him not to present himself for communion," said Burke. "I might give him a blessing or something," he said. "If his archbishop has told him he should not present himself for communion, he shouldn't. I agree with Archbishop (Sean P.) O'Malley (of Boston.)"
In his former diocese of La C****e, Wis., Burke sent an official episcopal notification to the diocesan priests to refuse communion to three Catholic Wisconsin law makers who had refused to talk with him about their pro-abortion rights votes.
Wednesday in St. Louis, Kerry said that he shares the Catholic Church's anti-abortion views as an article of faith. But as a public official, he said, it was not "appropriate in the United States for a legislator to legislate personal religious beliefs for the rest of the country."
Many Catholic legislators disagree with their bishops, he said. If a St. Louis Catholic legislator would disagree with the church teachings on abortion or capital punishment, Burke would ask them to sit down and talk to him, he said.
Burke spoke about the issue in response to Post-Dispatch questions at a taping of Extra Edition, a weekly half-hour news show produced by the Post-Dispatch and KMOV (Channel 4) and hosted by Jamie Allman. The show airs Saturday night at 6:30.
"On life issues this is a serious issue for bishops, a grave problem for the church which has to be addressed," Burke said.
So personally I could be for smoking pot yet or cheating on your spouse yet publically call for it's demise????
Sounds like pretty safe way to play both sides of the fence!!!!!!
Burke would refuse communion to Kerry
By Patricia Rice
Post-Dispatch Religion Writer
01/30/2004
© 2004 St. Louis Post-Dispatch
If Sen. John Kerry were to stand in Archbishop Raymond L. Burke's communion line Sunday, Burke would bless him without giving him communion.
Kerry, a Catholic, has voted to support abortion rights, contrary to Catholic Church long-held teaching opposing abortion.
"I would have to admonish him not to present himself for communion," said Burke. "I might give him a blessing or something," he said. "If his archbishop has told him he should not present himself for communion, he shouldn't. I agree with Archbishop (Sean P.) O'Malley (of Boston.)"
In his former diocese of La C****e, Wis., Burke sent an official episcopal notification to the diocesan priests to refuse communion to three Catholic Wisconsin law makers who had refused to talk with him about their pro-abortion rights votes.
Wednesday in St. Louis, Kerry said that he shares the Catholic Church's anti-abortion views as an article of faith. But as a public official, he said, it was not "appropriate in the United States for a legislator to legislate personal religious beliefs for the rest of the country."
Many Catholic legislators disagree with their bishops, he said. If a St. Louis Catholic legislator would disagree with the church teachings on abortion or capital punishment, Burke would ask them to sit down and talk to him, he said.
Burke spoke about the issue in response to Post-Dispatch questions at a taping of Extra Edition, a weekly half-hour news show produced by the Post-Dispatch and KMOV (Channel 4) and hosted by Jamie Allman. The show airs Saturday night at 6:30.
"On life issues this is a serious issue for bishops, a grave problem for the church which has to be addressed," Burke said.
