Cardinal Burke: Pro-Abortion Politicians May Not Receive Holy Communion

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Cardinal Burke: Pro-Abortion Politicians May Not Receive Holy Communion

Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. 9 Apr 2021

ROME — Catholic politicians who publicly promote the practice of abortion on demand may not receive Holy Communion, Cardinal Raymond Burke declared this week.

A Catholic “who publicly and obstinately opposes the truth regarding faith and morals may not present himself or herself to receive Holy Communion and neither may the minister of Holy Communion give him or her the Sacrament,” said Cardinal Burke in extended statement posted on April 7.

For many years, Burke — a canon lawyer and the former head of the Vatican’s highest court — has insisted Canon Law forbids politicians who defend and promote abortion from receiving Communion, but this teaching takes on special relevance in the case of President Joe Biden, a Catholic who actively supports abortion on demand.

The cardinal said many have asked him how Catholic politicians and civil officials who publicly and obstinately defend and promote the practice of abortion on demand can approach to receive Holy Communion.

The answer, he says, is simple: they should not do so and if they do, the minister of Holy Communion should refuse to give it to them.

“The reception of Holy Communion by those who publicly and obstinately violate the moral law in its most fundamental precepts is a particularly grave form of sacrilege,” Burke asserts, citing the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

“It not only merits eternal punishment for the one who receives unworthily but constitutes a most serious scandal for others,” he adds, in that “it leads them into the false belief that one can publicly and obstinately violate the moral law in a grave matter and still receive Our Lord in Holy Communion.”

“The denial of Holy Communion is not an ecclesiastical penalty but the recognition of the objectively unworthy state of a person to approach to receive Holy Communion,” he notes.

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[PeteS in CA]

I'd love to have seen his views of Teddy the Snorkel, though he may not have voiced them publicly. Burke was "just" a priest in Wisconsin when Teddy the Snorkel ran for President.

[GtHawk]

Waiting for pope socialista to rebuke Cardinal Burke for having the audacity to adhere to Catholic tenets. I bet pope socialista is just fine with abortion because anything that reduces mans destruction of his goddess Gaia makes infanticide acceptable to him.