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How Dare Pro-Abortion Politicians Complain if Even Remarried Catholics are Denied Communion

Editorial by John-Henry Westen Editor
LifeSiteNews.com

In his latest public document, Sacramentum Caritatis, Pope Benedict XVI has reaffirmed the Catholic Church's teaching that validly married Catholics who get divorced and remarry are not to be given Holy Communion.  "The Synod of Bishops confirmed the Church's practice, based on Sacred Scripture," wrote the Pope, "of not admitting the divorced and remarried to the sacraments, since their state and their condition of life objectively contradict the loving union of Christ and the Church."

It is a hard teaching, but a necessary one since, for Catholics, communion signifies a unity of faith but even more so a total fidelity to God.

Despite the fact that the world may consider it naïve, the Pope urges those in such irregular marriages to either separate or live with their new partners in non-sexual friendships so that they may once again receive communion.  "Where the nullity of the marriage bond is not declared and objective circumstances make it impossible to cease cohabitation, the Church encourages these members of the faithful to commit themselves to living their relationship in fidelity to the demands of God's law, as friends, as brother and sister; in this way they will be able to return to the table of the Eucharist," wrote Pope Benedict.

Imagine the Catholic woman who married a good man, but after a few years that man hit upon hard times and turned to drink and to abuse, which led to separation and divorce.  A second marriage, while not recognized as such by the church has seemingly stabilized her life.  While she would still like to receive communion, she is in her circumstances unable to unless she and her new partner commit themselves to live as brother and sister.  The desire to be faithful would lead this couple to make such a sacrifice in order to receive communion worthily. There are in fact heroic Catholic couples who do take this action to be faithful to Christ and the Church. 

How is it then that so-called Catholic politicians demand reception of communion while obstinately speaking and taking public actions against the church's teaching on the sanctity of life and other prominent moral issues?

For over half a century it seems some Catholics who wilfully and spitefully reject the Church's authoritative teaching on the sanctity of life feel it is their right to receive Holy Communion despite their strong dissent.

England's first Catholic physician to run a birth control clinic which doled out abortion-causing drugs, was notorious in this regard. Dr. Anne Greene Biezanek went so far as to call the press to watch her challenge her bishop to deny her communion.  She wrote a letter advising the press, and the archbishop that she would be at the Cathedral, and when she received communion she declared victory. The Archbishop of Westminster said he didn't even recognize her.

Catholic politicians who support abortion are very similar to their pro-abortion forebears.  While notoriously pro-abortion, both John Kerry and Nancy Pelosi continue to call themselves Catholic.  Kerry has staged numerous communion photo-ops and Pelosi took a tack similar Biezanek's.

In 2004, as the US Bishops were discussing the matter of Communion for pro-abortion politicians, Pelosi told the media that she would continue to take Holy Communion despite her pro-abortion position. She went so far as to misrepresent the Catholic faith as supporting her pro-abortion stance.  "I believe that my position on choice is one that is consistent with my Catholic upbringing, which said that every person has a free will and has the responsibility to live their lives in a way that they would have to account for in the end," she said.

Interestingly, Biezanek too claimed her pro-abortion position on her Catholic formation.  "The fact that I believe in standing up for the truth as I see it is something I learned from the Catholic church," she said.

But to both divorced and remarried Catholics and to those Catholic politicians who cannot seem to bring themselves to accept the church's teaching on the sanctity of life, the Catholic Church offers many forms of participation other than communion.  In the document, Pope Benedict suggests to divorced and remarried Catholics several options that could apply equally to Catholic politicians who aren't in synch with the teachings on life. 

The Church, says the Pope, "encourages them to live as fully as possible the Christian life through regular participation at Mass, albeit without receiving communion, listening to the word of God, eucharistic adoration, prayer, participation in the life of the community, honest dialogue with a priest or spiritual director, dedication to the life of charity, works of penance."

If the divorced and remarried woman spoken of above cannot receive communion how dare pro-abortion politicians complain about being denied communion. The Pope explains in his document that the reason why divorced and remarried Catholics may not receive communion is that the breaking of the original valid marriage covenant is akin to God breaking his covenant with the Church.  

A politician's decision to support abortion is akin to a decision to support the killing of God, it is killing His Presence in their souls.  As Christ said, "Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me."

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Prominent Canadian Feminist Doris Anderson Dies at Age 85

Ironically lived in home for unwanted children first few months of life; later became virulent pro-abortionist

by Tony Gosgnach
Assistant Editor, The Interim
Originally written for April 2007 edition of Interim

March 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canada’s leftist, media and feminist establishments fell over themselves in praise of what they described as a leading Canadian “champion of women’s rights,” following her death on March 2 at the age of 85.

Doris Anderson was a magazine editor, author and campaigner for women’s rights – and also a virulent agitator in favour of abortion. A woman who ironically lived in a home for unwanted children the first few months of her life is now regarded as a pioneer in the area of so-called abortion rights. She used her editorship of Chatelaine magazine between 1957 and 1977 to expound for the legalization of abortion.

She is also credited with helping launch Canada’s “feminist revolution” through her agitation for a royal commission on the status of women in the 1960s.

“Chatelaine became one of the few places where feminist ideas were available to women,” noted a Canadian Press obituary. The CBC added that Anderson “quickly tackled hard-hitting issues such as … birth control and abortion” after taking over the magazine.

“I think it was Gloria Steinem who said that feminists get more radical as they got older and that was certainly true of Doris,” said Judy Rebick, another radical feminist and former manager of Henry Morgentaler’s Toronto abortuary.

Another leading Canadian pro-abortionist, June Callwood, lauded Anderson for “putting out the most seditious magazine in the country.”

Federal NDP leader Jack Layton, one more extreme agitator in favour of abortion, said Anderson “has always inspired me … Anderson was a driving force in Canadian feminist activism … Canada is a better place because of our ‘rebel daughter.’”

Interestingly, Layton’s remarks shortly preceded the release of census data revealing that only immigration is propping up Canada’s anemic rate of population increase. The dearth of people, greatly the result of liberalized abortion as advocated by Anderson, is promising to create a major social crisis in the coming years, as the baby boom generation moves into retirement and not enough young people pay into social services that were destined to preserve their elders’ health and well-being.

Anderson’s radical feminism may well have been fuelled by a strong animosity toward her father. According to a Globe and Mail obituary, he was a “belligerent and overbearing man who thrust himself into her idealized, matriarchal world, much to her dismay, when she was eight years old. This early life experience may help to explain why Ms Anderson so often chose conflict over consensus as a management style.”

For her part, Anderson affirmed: “I never learned to be subservient to men.” In her book, Rebel Daughter, she described how she used to fervently wish her father would be hit by a streetcar.

A profile in Library and Archives Canada notes Anderson “found it increasingly difficult to accept her mother’s vision of a traditional life based on marriage and children and looked to women such as her unmarried teachers as role models for an independent life.”

In the foreward to the book No Choice: Canadian Women Tell Their Stories of Illegal Abortion, Anderson described how she utilized an incremental approach to softening attitudes toward abortion. She said she took “an extremely cautious approach to this explosive subject … suggesting abortion be legalized in three instances: if a woman’s life were in danger; in cases of rape or incest; and if a woman knew she was carrying a fetus with extremely severe disabilities.”

She depicted those opposed to abortion as being concerned not with the well-being of women or children, but rather with stopping women from having any sexual activity outside of marriage and making them “provide a maximum number of babies for the state and church.”

She also complained about the fact that Prince Edward Island was abortion-free, as were many rural areas of the country.

Even in more recent years, after all laws restricting abortion were struck down by the Supreme Court in 1988 – creating a state of affairs in which preborn humans could be killed right up to the moment of birth – Anderson showed no hesitation in pushing for still more abortion access.

In June 2004, she appeared with Callwood and others on behalf of the Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics to protest what they called “the Conservative party’s right-wing stance on abortion.” During the 2005 controversy over the awarding of an honourary degree by the University of Western Ontario to Morgentaler, Anderson congratulated the university for its “courage.”

The Globe and Mail in its lengthy obituary reported that – not content with helping ensure lives could be snuffed out at the beginning – Anderson in her final days adopted as one of her pet causes “the right for terminally ill patients to end their lives with dignity and according to their own timetables.”

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Bible Clearly Condemns Homosexual Acts, Says Top Rome Scholar

By Gudrun Schultz

ROME, Italy, March 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Biblical condemnation of homosexual activity is unmistakable, and forms the foundation of the Roman Catholic Church’s insistence on heterosexuality, said a leading Biblical scholar with the John Paul II Institute in Rome.

In a two-part interview with Zenit News Agency, Father Jean-Baptiste Edart discussed the biblical teachings on homosexuality. Fr. Edart is co-author of Clarifications sur l’Homosexualité dans la Bible” (Clarifications on Homosexuality in the Bible), published by Editions du Cerf.

Citing texts from both Old and New Testament which explicitly prohibit homosexual activity, Fr. Edart said homosexual acts between members of either sex were considered “extremely grave, directly offending the divine Law. This teaching is perfectly consistent with Judaism of that time.”

He listed three passages from the Old Testament where to “lie with a male as with a woman” was called an abomination, wickedness, and “wanton crime”, and three passages from the New Testament that listed homosexuality and sodomy alongside fornication, adultery, idolatry, and other crimes-- homosexual activity was referred to as “degrading passions.”

Fr. Edart emphasized that it was the acting out of homosexual inclinations that were condemned in the Bible, not same-sex attraction itself.

“No distinction is related to a question of sexual orientation, or of circumstances of the act, nor is it indicated. It is the act itself which is condemned.”

The Biblical prohibition against homosexual activity “in no way is invalidated by questions of ‘tendencies’ or orientation It is every homosexual act in its materiality which is contrary to the divine will manifested in the beginning, whether imposed or consented.”

Referring to a New Testament passage from Romans, Fr. Edart said increasing levels of homosexual activity in society were understood to be a sign of God’s anger over faithlessness among the people (Rom 1:18-32.)

Despite the unmistakable prohibition against homosexual acts, Fr. Edart said it was important to remember that the Church demands respect for the dignity of every human person and condemns any unjust discrimination against those who experience homosexual attraction, calling on Christians to aid them in living chastely through offering community support and encouragement.

“The suffering of a homosexual person can be very great and not accessible to people who do not experience this situation….The homosexual person experiences an internal suffering, attested by psychological studies, but he also suffers from his confrontation with a world that very often will judge and condemn him,” Fr. Edart said.

“In the face of this situation, the Church, in fidelity to the Bible, recognizing that active homosexuality cannot be a good for the person, forcefully affirms, in the same fidelity to the word of God, that every person, regardless of his sexual orientation, has the same dignity and in no way must be the object of unjust discrimination. As every baptized person, homosexual persons are called to holiness and to live here and now a living relationship with Christ in the Church.

“It’s a long and difficult but possible path,” Fr. Edart said in closing. “It is certain that the development of homosexuality in our Western society is an appeal to Christians to create new places to help those who are wounded in their sexuality.”

See full Zenit interviews here:

http://www.zenit.org/english/

See related LifeSiteNews coverage here:

Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury Says Homosexual Sex Incompatible with Bible
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/aug/06082808.html

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Hans Kung Uses Friend Status to Bash Pope Benedict

New book by leading dissident published by Novalis Press, official publisher of Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops

By Hilary White

OTTAWA, March 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A March 15 Ottawa Citizen article headlined, “Pope Lives in Terror of Rebellion, says former friend,” quotes Hans Kung, former Catholic theology professor, accusing Pope Benedict of embracing “a medieval idea of the Catholic church.”

Kung told the Citizen that the Pope’s stance supporting the moral law and the traditions of the Catholic faith is a result of fear. Painting his former academic colleague as a paranoid autocrat, Kung said, “He got more and more conservative, more and more frightened.”

Kung said, “To the present day, Ratzinger has shown phobias about all movements ‘from below'; whether these are student chaplaincies, groups of priests, movements of church people, the Iglesia popular or liberation theology.”

But Kung, a former Catholic theologian and famous opponent of Catholicism who once compared then-Cardinal Ratzinger to the head of the KGB, was given a warm reception in 2005 as the Pope’s guest for an unprecedented four hour private dinner meeting. At that meeting, Catholic reporter John Allen wrote that the Pope warmly praised Kung for his efforts to “foster dialogue among religions and with the natural sciences.”

Kung is making the rounds of publicity appearances for his latest bestseller, “My Struggle for Freedom,” sold in English and French by Novalis Press, the official publisher of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops. The book is the first of a two-volume autobiography.

Jennifer Green wrote that the 78 year-old Kung described the Catholic Church as the “unrequited love of his life.”

But Green admits that it is Kung’s reputation as the world’s leading enemy of the Catholic faith and teaching that attracts “hundreds of reporters” in the mainstream press who, she writes are “confident that he will say exactly what he thinks of the increasingly conservative papacy.”

Kung somehow remains a priest in good standing with the Church despite his decades as the figurehead for the post-sixties clerical rebellion that continues to this day. His talking points remain, as ever, the familiar list of liberal grievances against Catholic teaching: sex, contraception and women priests.

“What would Jesus do if he were Pope? I can't believe He would forbid the (birth control) pill today, or the ordination of women,” he told the Citizen.

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Brazilian Priests Could Face Jail-time for Saying that Homosexuality is A Sin

If new legislation passes, even seminaries would not be allowed to disqualify active homosexuals

By Meg Jalsevac

BRAZIL, March 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Brazil’s Senate is currently engaged in a debate over proposed legislation that would criminalize anything deemed a condemnation of homosexuality.  The new legislation, labeled the ‘homophobia law’ would demand jail time for violations of the law and would not provide for any religious exception.

The proposed legislation has already passed through the House and was debated last Thursday in the Senate.  The Senate members refused to vote on the matter, in part due to the number of civilians who contacted government officials to voice their concerns about the proposed law.  Instead, a study group was established to further investigate and acquire professional input on the issue.  

The legislation includes wording that would prevent any type of supposed discrimination due to sexual orientation.  According to ZENIT, priests who preached against homosexuality could face 3 to 5 years in jail and seminaries would not be permitted to reject applicants based on their sexual orientation.
  
Some have condemned the proposed law saying that it is religious discrimination. A ZENIT source said, “In addition to the rights established in the constitution for all people, the homosexual, by the simple fact of being homosexual, would gain privileges.”

Exodus Brazil, the Brazilian branch of the international ex-homosexual ministry, has expressed grave concern about the law saying, “It will extinguish ex-gay ministry in Brazil for all practical purposes.”

Brazil has been a recent leader in pushing for gay rights and trumping traditional family values.  In 2005, Brazil legalized homosexual adoption.  As previously reported by LifeSiteNews.com, Brazilian ambassadors have been the driving force behind a 2006 proposal to the Organization of American States to designate sexual orientation an “inalienable right” with full human-rights protection. 

Read Previous LifeSiteNews.com Coverage:

Brazil Judge Permits Homosexual Adoption
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/jul/05071202.html

Brazil-Backed Treaty Seeks to Make Homosexual Sex a 'Human Right' in North and South America
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/dec/06121204.html

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Museum of Abortion and Contraception Makes Debut in Austria

By Peter J. Smith

VIENNA, March 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new museum dedicated to abortion and contraception opened this week in Vienna, cataloguing a history of human effort through the ages devoted to suppressing or destroying the next generation of human life in the womb.

According to Deutsch-Welle, abortionist Dr. Christian Fiala, chairman of the International Association of Abortion and Contraception Specialists, conceived the idea of building a museum dedicated to the history of his profession in the city where he has directed an abortion/family planning clinic for the previous 10 years.

Fiala’s museum is divided into two separate rooms that are linked together just like contraception and abortion. In order to get to the abortion room, visitors must first pass through the contraception room, where they can see exhibits such as the first birth control pill juxtaposed with old-fashioned condoms made of pig bladders. If the contraception exhibit fails to satisfy, visitors may choose to enter into the abortion room by passing through a doorway of hanging pregnancy test kits from the 1960s.

“Until about 1900,” Deutsch-Welle reports, “abortions were so dangerous that it was safer for women to carry the child to term and then kill it after it was born.” However, visitors can listen to recordings of abortionists discussing how killing a child before birth was “still a life-threatening procedure” 30 years ago – for the mother, not just the child.

"Today we believe that if we discuss abortions or the laws that govern them that it is solely about the rights of the fetus,” said Fiala. “But we forget that a fetus cannot live unless it inside a healthy woman. And that there is no one other than the woman herself of [sic] can or should make any decisions about her pregnancy."
 
Conservatives may see the Museum of Contraception and Abortion as a memorial befitting Europe’s aging native societies, which due to their preference for a contraception/abortion mentality over families and fecundity have produced an unprecedented demographic crisis.

The United Nations 2006 Revision to World Population Prospects reports that by 2050, Europe will experience a demographic meltdown with countries such as Ukraine losing 33% of its population, Russia 25%, Poland 20.5%, and Germany 10.3% by 2050.

Canadian conservative columnist Mark Steyn has observed repeatedly that burgeoning immigrant Islamic populations, who in most part don’t identify themselves with the culture of their well-advanced European neighbors, are already in a position to soon take over management of a barren Europe that has contracepted itself out of the future.

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Two Bishops Speak at Gay Conference Condemned by a Third Bishop

By Hilary White

MINNEAPOLIS, March 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – New Ways Ministry, an organization promoting the normalization of homosexuality in the Catholic Church, held a conference last weekend in Minneapolis that was attended by 550 people, including a large contingent of Catholic priests and sisters. The St. Paul Pioneer Press reported that though the conference was well-attended, most of the participants were in their 50’s and 60’s, betraying their origins in the baby boomer sexual revolution of the 1960’s.

Called “Outward Signs: Lesbian/ Gay Catholics in a Sacramental Church,” the conference featured workshops titled, “Lesbian Nuns: Steps, Stumbles and Strides,” “Breaking Bread: Lesbian-Gay Parish Ministry” and “The Sacrament of Reconciliation and Homophobia.”

Two conference keynote speakers included retired Archbishop Francis Hurley, of Anchorage, Alaska, and Bishop Joseph Sullivan, a retired auxiliary bishop of Brooklyn, N.Y., a frequent supporter of the homosexual movement in the Church. 

The Pioneer Press quotes Bishop Sullivan: “It's not about being orthodox or not being orthodox, it's about being sensitively aware.” Archbishop Hurley condemned the Catholic understanding of homosexual desires as a disorder. “Can an inclination be intrinsically disordered?"

Hurley said, “The terminology carries too much baggage and should be dropped. And in no place in the document is there a mention of freedom of conscience. That's the kind of thing we have to deal with in context with homosexuality.”

The conference also featured some of the big names in American Catholic dissident circles, including Dr. Richard McBrien of the University of Notre Dame who spoke on “Ordination to the Priesthood and Gay Men,” and Sr. Helen Prejean, a campaigner against the death penalty made famous in the film “Dead Man Walking.”

Since the revelation in 2002 of decades of sexual abuse of boys and adolescents by ordained homosexuals, the presence of and support for such organizations as New Ways has come under increasing criticism by faithful Catholics. A study of the abuse scandal showed that 80.9% of the abuse cases were of young men or boys by priests.

The Archdiocese of Minneapolis St. Paul is particularly known for its ambiguous or even open support for those promoting the “gay lifestyle” as a legitimate option for Christians.

Catholics were therefore surprised when Archbishop Harry Flynn, well known for his toleration of homosexual activism within his diocesan structures, sent a letter to New Ways saying that Holy Communion could not be offered at the New Ways conference.
 
Flynn wrote to New Ways Ministry, “I am concerned about some of the topics listed, and also about some of your featured speakers who are known to have publicly contested church teaching. As a result, I am concerned that this symposium may well cause significant confusion to members of the faithful in this archdiocese, as well as others who have knowledge of it.”

Archdiocese spokesman Dennis McGrath told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that the archdiocese does not condone attendance at the conference and that the church already has standards for ministering to gays. McGrath also objected that the Archbishop’s letter had been made public.

Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Minneapolis Archbishop Claims Vatican Okay with Communion for Homosexual Activists
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/dec/04121502.html

Vatican Intervenes in Minneapolis Catholic "Gay Pride" Parish
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/oct/04102806.html

Archdiocese of St. Paul claims no "Subculture of Homosexual Priests" Here
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/mar/06032801.html

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Canadian Civil Liberties Assoc. Intervenes for Sask. Nurse Fined Over Abortion Demonstration

By Gudrun Schultz

REGINA, Saskatchewan, March 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Canadian Civil Liberties Association unexpectedly entered a battle for freedom of speach on the abortion issue last week,  acting as intervenor on behalf of a Saskatchewan nurse sued for demonstrating against abortion.

The CCLA filed an affadavit declaring that the organization backed the rights of pro-life nurse Bill Whatcott, who in 2004 was fined $15,000 and given a 45-day suspension after the Saskatchewan Licensed Practical Nurses Association Discipline Tribunal found him guilty of two counts of professional misconduct for picketing in front of Planned Parenthood Regina. PPR had sued Whatcott after he demonstrated outside the facility carrying signs that stated, "Planned Parenthood will give you AIDS" and "Planned Parenthood corrupts your people" and a sign referring to the organization as "baby killers."
Whatcott refused to pay the fine and has been suspended indefinitely.

His legal defense has fought the ruling in lower courts for the past three years--the case is soon to go before the Saskatchewan Supreme Court.

CCLA General Counsel A. Alan Borovoy filed the affadavit defending Whatcott's position, stating that "it is on the issue of Mr. Whatcott's freedom of expression that the CCLA seeks to intervene."

Borovoy stated that the CCLA is primarily concerned with the "protection of civil liberties and the promotion and legal protection of individual freedom and dignity against unreasonable invasion by public authority."

The CCLA expressed concern for Whatcott's freedom of speech rights, despite the organization's long history, as Borovoy's document states, of advocating for access to abortion in Canada. In fact, Borovoy stated that the CCLA “repudiates the content of Mr. Whatcott's expression” during his pro-life demonstration.

Nevertheless, Borovoy stated, "it is fundamental to democracy that individuals be able to comment on the morality of others' behavior. Indeed, norms of behaviour must generally be debatable. Through such democratic processes, people are assisted in reaching their own conclusions as to what behaviours should be permitted, encouraged, discouraged, or forbidden."

Whatcott argued that his actions in demonstrating before PPR expressed his own personal views and had no connection to his profession as a nurse.

The CCLA defended its request for intervener status by pointing out that the case involved issues of "broad public and legal significance that concern the rights of all Canadians," and that the CCLA's history and expertise would provide a "helpful contribution to the resolution of the appeal."

"The CCLA is concerned about the implications and consequences of this appeal for the rights and freedoms of all Canadians. The CCLA seeks to ensure that the issues are approached with due consideration for the fundamental freedoms enshrined in the Charter and that those freedoms are properly reflected in the resolution of this appeal."

See previous LifeSiteNews coverage:

Regina Family Activist Will Refuse to Pay $17,500 Fine for Homosexual Hurt Feelings
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/nov/06111305.html

CHRISTIAN ACTIVIST RETAINS NURSING JOB AFTER ATTEMPTED BOOT FOR ACTIVISM
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2001/dec/01120404.html

PRO-LIFE ACTIVIST MAY LOSE NURSING LICENCE
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2002/sep/02091205.html

Queen's Bench Court Rules Graphic Abortion Photos Protected by Charter
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/nov/04110510.html

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Corrections:

1. Please note that in a March 7 story, the title and lead erroneously stated that a judged ordered penal charges against a homeschooling mother.  Rather the judge penalized the homeschooling mother as the story indicates.  We regret any inconvenience this error has caused.

See the corrected story online here:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/mar/07030703.html

2. A March 16 story erroneously indicated in the headline that a bill signed by the Colorado governor mandated Catholic hospitals to provide an abortion drug to rape victims. The bill instead mandated the hospitals to give information about the drug to rape victims.

See the corrected story at:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/mar/07031602.html

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