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Vatican Cardinal: Catholic Voters Can Never Be Justified in Voting for Pro-Abortion Politicians

Vatican Cardinal: Catholic Voters Can Never Be Justified in Voting for Pro-Abortion Politicians:

ROME, October 6, 2005 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) - The president of the Pontifical Council for Health Care has stated flatly that Catholics cannot, in conscience, support a politician who favors legal abortion.

Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan made his remarks in an interview with the Italian daily La Repubblica. He was responding indirectly to an intervention by Archbishop William Levada during the discussions of the Synod of Bishop. Archbishop Levada-- the American prelate recently chosen by Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news) to be prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith-- had asked other prelates to reflect on the question that had divided the US hierarchy during the 2004 election year: How bishops should respond to Catholic politicians who support abortion.

'A Catholic cannot support a politician who presents abortion as a general norm,' said Cardinal Lozano. The Mexican prelate added that 'a son of the Church cannot consider himself to be in full communion if he supports what the Church condemns.'"

Well, the decision is not formally official, but I hope that the statements issued by the Synod on this topic will at long last remove any doubt from the minds of Catholic voters. The message is: You may not vote for an advocate of abortion without committing a grave sin unless their opponent is even more pro-abortion. Somehow I expect that there will still be those who are educated to the point of idiotcy or so entrenched in the "culture of death" that they will still insist on falsifying the Church's teaching on this.

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posted by Norm Johnson @ 9:57 AM