Go For It Archbishop Burke

[elts1956]

HOPE AT LAST:extrahappy::extrahappy::extrahappy:

lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/jul/10070912.html
Friday July 9, 2010
Archbishop Burke Appointed to Congregation for Divine Worship: Has Pro-Life Significance

By Patrick B. Craine
VATICAN, July 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI has named Archbishop Raymond Burke as a member of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
The appointment of Archbishop Burke, prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura (the Vatican’s highest court), is significant due to the fact that it is this congregation that oversees the distribution of Holy Communion; Archbishop Burke is perhaps the most vocal figure in the Vatican on the need to deny Communion to obstinately pro-abortion politicians.
The Code of Canon Law, in canon 915, states that “those who have been … obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to holy communion.”
While still a cardinal, the pope himself wrote to the United States bishops saying that a Catholic politician who votes for “permissive abortion and euthanasia laws,” after being duly instructed and warned, “must” be denied Communion.
The current prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, Cardinal Antonio Canizares, has also attested that canon 915 must be applied to pro-abortion politicians. Prefect emeritus, Cardinal Francis Arinze, balked at the notion that a cardinal was needed to answer the question, saying that even children at First Communion would insist that Communion should be denied to such individuals.
Many bishops ignore or even oppose this directive, affirmed repeatedly by numerous Vatican officials; but Archbishop Burke maintains that bishops have no choice in the matter.
“The Church’s law is very clear,” he told LifeSiteNews in January 2009. “The person who persists publicly in grave sin is to be denied Holy Communion, and it [Canon Law] doesn’t say that the bishop shall decide this. It’s an absolute.”

See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
For the Vatican it’s Clear - Pro-Abortion Politicians ‘Must’ be Denied Communion
lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/nov/09112709.html
Vatican Official: Bishops Have no Choice But to Refuse Communion to Pro-Abort Politicians
lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/feb/09020402.html

 

[catharina]

HOPE AT LAST:extrahappy::extrahappy::extrahappy:

lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/jul/10070912.html
Friday July 9, 2010
Archbishop Burke Appointed to Congregation for Divine Worship: Has Pro-Life Significance

By Patrick B. Craine
VATICAN, July 9, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI has named Archbishop Raymond Burke as a member of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
The appointment of Archbishop Burke, prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura (the Vatican’s highest court), is significant due to the fact that it is this congregation that oversees the distribution of Holy Communion; Archbishop Burke is perhaps the most vocal figure in the Vatican on the need to deny Communion to obstinately pro-abortion politicians.
The Code of Canon Law, in canon 915, states that “those who have been … obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to holy communion.”
While still a cardinal, the pope himself wrote to the United States bishops saying that a Catholic politician who votes for “permissive abortion and euthanasia laws,” after being duly instructed and warned, “must” be denied Communion.
The current prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, Cardinal Antonio Canizares, has also attested that canon 915 must be applied to pro-abortion politicians. Prefect emeritus, Cardinal Francis Arinze, balked at the notion that a cardinal was needed to answer the question, saying that even children at First Communion would insist that Communion should be denied to such individuals.
Many bishops ignore or even oppose this directive, affirmed repeatedly by numerous Vatican officials; but Archbishop Burke maintains that bishops have no choice in the matter.
“The Church’s law is very clear,” he told LifeSiteNews in January 2009. “The person who persists publicly in grave sin is to be denied Holy Communion, and it [Canon Law] doesn’t say that the bishop shall decide this. It’s an absolute.”

See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
For the Vatican it’s Clear - Pro-Abortion Politicians ‘Must’ be Denied Communion
lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/nov/09112709.html
Vatican Official: Bishops Have no Choice But to Refuse Communion to Pro-Abort Politicians
lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/feb/09020402.html

Amazingly strong statement from Archbishop Raymond Burke.
Prayers for his continued good health! Blessed be God.

 

[Georgia]

If we had a few more like him, it would be hard to get a pew for Mass.

The pro-life position has been damaged in the United States by politicians who use their alleged Catholic faith as a campaign item. Then, once elected, they stand for abortion and publicly attack the Church. It tells people that the beliefs of the Church are pick-and-choose and that no one need give them much weight. It is the height of scandal.

We have all seen pictures of famously pro-abortion politicians receiving the Blessed Sacrament. I cannot help wondering at the bishops who permit it. Thank God we have Archbishop Burke and a few like him who stand for the most innocent of human lives.

 

[ALLGIRLS]

Congratulations Archbishop Burke! (still miss you in St. Louis, though I love Archbishop Carlson, too)

Ok, so, now will he be made a Cardinal? What’s the holdup on that?

In Christ,

Ellen

 

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[Joe_Kelley]

Congratulations Archbishop Burke! (still miss you in St. Louis, though I love Archbishop Carlson, too)

Ok, so, now will he be made a Cardinal? What’s the holdup on that?

In Christ,

Ellen

I don’t think there has ;been a naming of new cardinals since he went to Rome. The Pope usually names several at the same time.

 

[lizaanne]

Archbishop Burke for Pope!!!

(Well, not immediately obviously. But when the time comes. )

~Liza