SOURCE: A Shepherd's Voice, Fr. John Malloy, SDB

You CAN'T be "Catholic" and Pro-Choice on Abortion!

Robert Royal, writing in the article "De-forming Consciences" in today's issue of "The Catholic Thing": http://www.thecatholicthing.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=794

EXCERPT . . . “'Voting for a pro-abortion politician when a plausible pro-life alternative exists constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil, and those Catholics who do so place themselves outside of full communion with Christ’s Church and under the judgment of divine law. Persons in this condition should not receive Holy Communion until and unless they are reconciled to God in the Sacrament of Penance, lest they eat and drink their own condemnation.'

Who wrote these words? You might guess Joseph Ratzinger, before he became Benedict XVI, on several occasions, not only about voting for pro-abortion politicians, but about those politicians themselves, if they claim to be Catholics. In fact, the words were written by Fr. J. H. Scott Newman, pastor of St. Mary’s Church in Greenville, South Carolina, and inserted into the parish bulletin last Sunday. Fr. Newman was merely expressing the widespread, longstanding, and clear moral understanding of the Church. No good deed, as we know, goes unpunished. " . . . ....ENTIRE ARTICLE FOUND AT:
http://www.thecatholicthing.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=794

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The Shameful Betrayal of a Courageous Pastor, by Phil Lawler, November 17, 2008
http://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/articles.cfm?id=284