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BY LifeSiteNews.com SANTA MONICA, CA, October 18, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Los Angeles based expert in Canon Law, the legal code used by the Catholic Church, announced Friday on EWTN’s the World Over Live with Raymond Arroyo that an important Vatican congregation has given an unprecedented boost to his case for heresy against presidential candidate John Kerry. Marc Balestrieri, JCL who has filed a formal case for Heresy against Kerry for his support of the right to abortion, revealed that he has received a written response prompted by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, affirming that Catholic politicians who persist in supporting the right to abortion are “automatically excommunicated.” Mr. Balestrieri, Director of De Fide, said the Response was written by the Reverend Fr. Basil Cole, O.P., an expert theologian based in Washington D.C., who was delegated by the Undersecretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Very Rev. Fr. Augustine di Noia, O.P., to formally respond. As a result, the Response has encouraged him to expand his complaint to include four more pro-abortion Catholic politicians, both Democrat and Republican. The Response is significant in that it represents the first time in modern history since Roe v. Wade in 1973 that such a clear reply is given to the Catholic faithful. Drafted under the auspices of the official Vatican Congregation with competency to decide doctrinal questions, it is entirely unambiguous and concludes: “Consequently, if a Catholic publicly and obstinately supports the civil right to abortion, knowing that the Church teaches officially against that legislation, he or she commits that heresy envisioned by Can. 751 of the Code.”  Balestrieri also announced that the Denunciation for Heresy, a kind of lawsuit under the Catholic Church’s Canon Law, filed against Senator Kerry is now pending before Kerry’s bishop, Archbishop Sean O’Malley of Boston.  The boost given him from the Response has prompted Balestrieri to file four additional Denunciations and Complaints against Sen. Ted Kennedy (D) of Massachusetts; Sen. Tom Harkin (D) of Iowa; Mr. Mario Cuomo (D), former Governor of New York; and Sen. Susan Collins (R) of Maine.  Balestrieri said the four have been chosen based on their consistent, extensive, and public pro-abortion records. See Balestrieri’s website:  www.defide.com See the Vatican Response:  http://www.defide.com/resp/response.pdf?PHPSESSID=c61956349a035e1d86ef22696ff70477&PHPSESSID=c61956349a035e1d86ef22696ff70477&PHPSESSID=c61956349a035e1d86ef22696ff70477&PHPSESSID=c61956349a035e1d86ef22696ff70477&PHPSESSID=c61956349a035e1d86ef22696ff70477&PHPSESSID=c61956349a035e1d86ef22696ff70477   jhw http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/sen-john-kerry-excommunicated-according-to-vatican-response/

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