Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:11:33 -0500 From: "manuel tavares" <[email protected]>
Mario, you have a double standard. Kennedy only supports the right of Women to Chose. It cannot be proved that he has not nor has his partner commit abortion. So it is like condemning him to hell for something he has not done.Refusing him communion on these grounds is frivolous. Mario responds. Manuel, get a grip. I have no double standard. Those who show remorse and repent must be forgiven. Those who openly defy the Church, especially in a situation that leads to over a million deaths just in the US, should not continue their membership for social and political benefits. No one has condemned anyone to hell. Bishops do not have the power to do that. This has nothing to do with what Kennedy has done personally. The Kennedy family and Patrick Kennedy are active advocates for abortion on demand and even want the government to pay for it with taxpayer money. They have done nothing to promote the choice of adoption. If they believe so strongly that it is OK for a woman to take an innocent life rather than choose adoption, they should leave the Church and then do whatever they want. Manuel wrote: Now allowing re-married people to receive communion even if they have their marriage annulled previously is the same as committing adultary. Who gave the church the authority to annull marriages. Mario responds: You seem to be making up your own rules. The Pope gave the church the authority. Manuel wrote: The church has no authority therefore to Annul any marriages. Mario responds: A bit premature, Manuel. I'm afraid you will have to wait until they make you Pope:-)) The difference you seem to be ignoring is continued and open defiance of Church teachings, versus those who have sinned and are remorseful and ask for forgiveness and vow to avoid the actions in future. Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:23:24 -0500 From: "J. Colaco < jc>" <[email protected]> Is it OK (by the Church) to kill the BORN by way of the Death Penalty or by waging unprovoked wars? Mario responds: The Catholic Church opposes capital punishment. However, to compare the Death Penalty with abortions is a specious red herring. The Death Penalty in the US for example, is carried out by a judicial system in very few and rare cases - 42 in 2007, 37 in 2008 - on those who have taken the life or lives of others under aggravated circumstances, after conviction by a court of law and an average of 10 to 15 years of legal appeals at taxpayer expense, versus well over a million abortions of purely innocent lives with no conviction or no right of appeal. The legal theory is to protect the lives of others and to deter others from committing similar crimes. Jose wrote: Is it OK to bomb innocent civilians? Has the Church (except Pope John Paul II) raised any voice against this? Mario responds: No, it is not OK to deliberately target innocent civilians. Currently, all those deliberately bombing innocent civilians happen to be Muslim heretics. Jose wrote: Has the Church publicly denied communion to those in the Church hierarchy who have abused and condoned abuse of innocent children? Mario responds: The Church has no grounds for denying communion to anyone who has shown remorse and repented for their sins, however heinous. If those who have abused or condoned the abuse of innocent children are continuing to openly and publicly do so, and have not shown remorse or repented, they would be denied communion. The subject of this discussion, Sen. Patrick Kennedy, has shown no remorse for openly and publicly defying a sacred and unequivocal teaching of the Church on the sanctity of innocent unborn life, and continues to openly and publicly defy the Church.
