Vatican City State, 00120, Italy
Attn. The Most Reverend Archbishop
William J. Levada – Prefect of the Congregation Aug. 8, 2005
For the Doctrine for the Faith Feast of St. Dominic
Most Reverend William J. Levada,
In July, the pro-abortion Catholic politicians in Canada succeeded in passing the same-sex marriage laws C-38. This outrageous scandal has highlighted the tragic collapse of the Church leadership in Canada. In some ways, this tragedy equals the sex and homosexual scandal in the U.S.A. In both cases, the spirit of dissent was a major factor. (Behold the ingenious dissenter Mario Cuomo. Yesterday, he appeared on “Meet the Press”. He reinvents the Catholic Faith and is still the patron saint of the pro-abortion Catholic politicians. Mario Cuomo is no Pope. ) Nevertheless, the Canadian scandal ought to dramatically change the modus operandi of our U.S. Bishops.
According to Francis Cardinal Arinze, the Vatican’s Prefect over the Administration of the Sacraments, the denial of communion to pro-abortion politicians is a no-brainer. It is a matter that should have been taken care of twenty-five years ago.
The inaction on the part of the bishops could have been a cover-up for a political party. It allowed other cancers to enter that once great party so that today it is on the road to suicide. Can the Canadian clergy and other practicing Christians remain registered with the abortion and same-sex marriage party? In the U.S.A. we have a political party that is pro-abortion, same sex marriage, assisted suicide and for embryonic stem cell research. These are absolute evils.
Let our frame of action be Pope John Paul II and his Encyclicals. Cardinal Ratzinger’s memo to Theodore Cardinal McCarrick was clear: “The practice of indiscriminately presenting oneself to receive Holy Communion, merely as a consequence of being at Mass, is an abuse that must be corrected…. Regarding the grave sin of abortion or euthanasia, when a person’s formal cooperation becomes manifest (understood, in the case of a Catholic politician, as his consistently campaigning &voting for permissive abortion & euthanasia laws), his Pastor should meet with him, instructing him about the Church’s teaching, informing him that he is not to present himself for Holy Communion until he brings to an end the objective situation of sin, and warning him he will otherwise be denied the Eucharist.”
The pursuit of the truth is in the teaching pronouncements of Pope Benedict XVI. It is a cop-out to say that “we can’t get involved because it is political,” or we are acting in “a pastorally wise and prudent” manner. Catholics and other Christians ought to communicate with their local Bishop and ask him to follow Cannon Law and the memo above, with respect to the pro-abortion Catholic politicians in their diocese.
Respectfully yours,
George H. Kubeck, Knights of Columbus, ...
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