Pope Warns Pro-Abortion Lawmakers
May 9th, 2007
The Pope was asked whether he supported Mexican Church leaders threatening to excommunicate leftist parliamentarians who last month voted to legalize abortion in Mexico City.
“Yes, this excommunication was not an arbitrary one but is allowed by Canon (church) law which says that the killing of an innocent child is incompatible with receiving communion, which is receiving the body of Christ,” he said.
“They (Mexican Church leaders) did nothing new, surprising or arbitrary. They simply announced publicly what is contained in the law of the Church… which expresses our appreciation for life and that human individuality, human personality is present from the first moment (of life)”.
Under Church law, someone who knowingly does or backs something which the Church considers a grave sin, such as abortion, inflicts what is known as “automatic excommunication” on themselves.
I’m not Catholic so if someone is please let us know if these people can get back into the good graces of the Roman Catholic Church and receive last sacraments etc, assuming they continue to support abortion up until their dying moments.
I’m thinking of Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi who are both pro-abortion and both Catholics.
Written by Jeanette
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If one believes that life comes from God, the creator, and is sacred, how can they believe that it is okay continue to receive the blessings and sacraments of faith if they take a stand in favor of killing innocent life?
We look at the crucifixion of Christ and decry how an innocent man was scourged and hung on a cross to die, but who cries out when an innocent being, whether we call it a child, or fetus, or tissue is “terminated”, when we did not create it nor have the ability to create it!
If a politician wants to take a stand in favor of abortion, then let them be respectful enough to not bring their faith into conflict and respectfully decline to receive the sacraments offered if they are in conflict with the teachings of that faith.
Why should their church have to suffer for the decisions they make?