Significant Excerpts of Pope Benedict XVI and Bishops

Significant Quotations of Pope Benedict XVI and Bishops
Saturday, Aug. 11, 2007
The Synod of Bishops under way in Rome (Nov. 13th, 2005)is likely to result in a correction for politicians who deny Catholic doctrine with their actions and still presume to receive Communion.
Pope Benedict XVI has already hinted that problems like this will be taken seriously at the synod when he said in his opening speech, “A tolerance which allows God as a private opinion but which excludes Him from public life, from the reality of the world and our lives, is not tolerance but hypocrisy.”

“When man makes himself the only master of the world and master of himself, justice cannot exist. Then, arbitrariness, power and interests rule.” Too many Catholic lives could be compared to “vinegar rather than wine” because of the indifference to God. LifeSiteNews.com Monday, Oct. 3rd, 2005

During the 2004 presidential elections, St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke went so far as to say that he would deny communion to the Democratic presidential Candidate John Kerry. A working document bishops are discussing at their meetings acknowledges the problems.

“Some receive communion while denying the teachings of the Church or publicly supporting immoral choices in life, such as abortion, without thinking that they are committing an act of grave personal dishonesty and causing scandal,” the document said.

“Some Catholics do not understand why it might be a sin to support a political candidate who is openly in favor of abortion or other serious acts against life, justice and peace.” American bishops adopted a statement last summer by a vote of 183-6 that calls on pro-abortion Catholics to refrain on their own from taking communion. Vatican City (LifeSiteNews.com) Oct. 4, 2005

Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, president of the Pontifical Council for Health Care has stated flatly that Catholics cannot in conscience, support a politician who favors legal abortion. “A Catholic cannot support a politician who presents abortion as a general norm,” said Cardinal Lozano. The Mexican prelate added that “a son of the Church cannot consider himself to be in full communion if he supports what the Church condemns.”

“A Catholic voter, the Vatican’s “health minister” continued should discriminate among the issues on the political agenda. An informed voter, he said, “should know how to distinguish between what represents an attack on life and what promotes the defense of life.” He added that a Catholic voter can never be justified in supporting “what constitutes an attack on life” Rome, Oct. 6th, 2005
(CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com)
George H. Kubeck, A Common Sense Pro-Life Dispatch. Duplicate or translate into Spanish.