The Wise and Unwise Priests - 5

The Wise and the Unwise Priests – 5
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Tuesday, June 23, 2009

What has happened to Father Weslin? Cont’d

Press Release – May 20th, 2009, New York Lambs of Christ

In April, Kansas Bishop Robert Finn spoke to pro-life activists from Kansas and Missouri, he said:
I am grateful for the encouragement of your presence and – as a Bishop if is my solemn and joyful duty to do all I can to fortify you in your own faith. But as I speak a word of encouragement today I also want to tell you soberly, dear friends, “We Are At War!”

We are in a constant warfare with Satan, with the glamour of evil, and the lure of false truths and empty promises. If we fail to realize how constantly these forces work against us, we are more likely to fall, and even chance forfeiting God’s gift of eternal life. “I http://catholickey.blogspot.com/2009/04we-are-at-war-bishop-finns-gospel-of.htlm
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R.I.P.: The bishops’ “Task Force” on Catholic Politicians by Kenneth D. Whitehead, excerpts from “Homiletic & Pastoral Review” Aug. – Sept. 2007 cont’d
Archbishop John J. Myers of Newark, New Jersey, probably spoke for most of these particular bishops when he published a pastoral letter in May, 2004, declaring that:
“Catholics who publicly dissent from the Church’s teaching on the right to life of all unborn children should recognize that they have freely chosen by their own actions to separate themselves from what the Church believes and teaches. They have also separated themselves in a significant way from the Catholic community. The Church cannot force such people to change their position; but she can and does ask them honestly to admit in the public forum that they are not in full union with the Church. One who practices such dissent … has abandoned the full Catholic faith. For such a person to express ‘communion’ with Christ and his Church by the reception of the Sacrament of the Eucharist is objectively dishonest ...”

A poll taken by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life in September, 2004, found that no less than 72 percent of the Catholics polled opposed denying Holy Communion to politicians whose public position on abortion and some other moral issue was at variance with the teachings of the Church… By itself this meant that they were guilty of what Catholics have traditionally disapproved of equally strongly as “giving scandal.”…According to Catholic teaching and practices, the bishops had a strong obligation not allow such conspicuous public defiance of Catholic authority issuing some kind of correction.

What the bishops did agree on at their 2004 Denver meeting was that the Church should go on reaffirming her teaching and attempting to persuade Americans of their validity, while calling on Catholics to act in support of these teachings. They declared that “the Catholic community and Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles.”.

In the memorandum, the future Pope Benedict XVI had actually envisaged a process whereby Catholic bishops would as a matter of practice speaking personally to prominent “pro-choice” politicians in their dioceses, and in no uncertain terms counsel and warn them about just how mistaken their positions really were, involving them in formal cooperation with evil. …
George H. Kubeck, P.O. Box 865, Stanton, Ca. 90680