Cardinal-Elect Burke Declares Catholics Must Vote Pro-Life

In a video-recorded interview with Tom McKenna of Catholic Action for Faith and Family, Cardinal-Elect Raymond Burke stated, “You can never vote for someone who favors absolutely the right to choice of a woman to destroy a human life in her womb or the right to a procured abortion."  They are discussing a pastoral letter that Burke wrote in 2004 while he was archbishop of St. Louis.  You may read it here.  For that matter, you can save it to your own computer.

The entire interview can be watched by clicking this link.  There are also some youtube excerpts, but I'd suggest taking the time to watch the whole thing.  On that site is a link that you may click to congratulate the Cardinal-elect.  Then pass word of this onto your family, friends, and those who might need to hear some straight talk.

Archbishop Burke: Pro-Abortion Catholic Pols Must Repent Publicly

Last week at the HLI World Prayer Congress in Rome, Archbishop Burke stated plainly that (and I quote verbatum) “When a person has publicly espoused and cooperated in gravely sinful acts, leading many into confusion and error about fundamental questions of respect for human life and the integrity of marriage and the family, his repentance of such actions must also be public.”


I urge you to read the full article at Lifesite News, which also contains links to the full address and to the video.  Archbishop Burke has spoken on this subject before, and has also been quite plain in proclaiming truth. 

I urge all prelates in the United States, and the world, to take seriously to obey Canon 915 in dealing with those politicians who remain recalcitrant.  That's an obligation, not a "pastoral option".  It's not a matter of "turning Holy Communion into a weapon".  It's a matter of preserving the Blessed Sacrament from blasphemy and preventing the politician from committing yet another mortal sin, that of sacrilegious Holy Communion.  I also raise the question of whether or not the knowing distribution of Holy Communion to such a person constitutes formal and material cooperation with the blasphemy - a serious matter in and of itself, I'd think.