{"id":6071,"date":"2013-12-18T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6071"},"modified":"2013-12-17T12:08:58","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T17:08:58","slug":"denying-communion-to-pro-abortion-politicians-gets-a-higher-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6071","title":{"rendered":"Denying Communion to Pro-Abortion Politicians Gets a Higher Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"

This issue has been in the news before, but I don’t think we’ve ever seen an opinion from this high up in the Catholic church<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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To deny Holy Communion to pro-abortion politicians who are Catholic, such as Secretary of State John Kerry, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, \u201cmakes perfect sense\u201d because it is a discipline that goes back to St. Paul, \u201cthe very first years of the Church,\u201d said Cardinal Raymond Burke, the former archbishop of St. Louis and now the chief justice at the Vatican\u2019s highest court.<\/p>\n

In an interview with EWTN\u2019s Raymond Arroyo on Dec. 13, Cardinal Burke explained that it is necessary to protect the Sacrament, the Communion wafer offered at Masses, from \u201cbeing profaned, being violated by someone receiving unworthily,\u201d someone \u201cwho knows that he or she is unworthy and yet presumes to come forward and to take the Holy Eucharist.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For our Catholic readers, what’s your take on this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This issue has been in the news before, but I don’t think we’ve ever seen an opinion from this high up in the Catholic church. To deny Holy Communion to pro-abortion politicians who are Catholic, such as Secretary of State John Kerry, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and former New York City Mayor Rudy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,31,30,9,26,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-catholicism","category-christianity","category-doug","category-politics","category-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t