Vatican Says Kerry Stance on Abortion Is Not Heresy

[Carla in Ca]

<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/20/politics/campaign/20catholic.html?oref=login&oref=login&pagewanted=print&position>



The article by The Catholic News Service also quoted an unnamed Vatican official as saying Mr. Kerry was not about to be excommunicated because "you can incur excommunication" automatically "only if you procure or perform an abortion."

The article came after a conservative Catholic canon lawyer who is trying to get Mr. Kerry excommunicated publicized a letter that was drafted at the request of a high-ranking Vatican official, a letter that the lawyer said indicated that Mr. Kerry should be excommunicated because he supported abortion rights.

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[Kanary]

1. And "the Vatican" couldn't come out with this *months* ago, and LOUD?

Comes across a little gamey to me......

:thumbsdown:

Kanary

[Carla in Ca]

2. I agree but it is a current talking point

so it should help make it go away.

[Kanary]

3. Not unless there is an EQUAL push in many parishes to EXPRESS this

"latest" view.

With most people, the loudest and most repeated message is the one that 'sticks'. So many parishes send out really ugly letters with pictures of aborted fetuses (fetusi?), and stun people dumb with fear and revulsion.

A weak, late message from the Vatican doesn't do squat to overturn that, unless the Pope does what he should have done ages ago, and sends out the edict to all the priests to make this latest revelation CLEAR to one and all!

ON the scale of what Catholics have been bombarded with, this doesn't even register.

Of course, the Catholics who think for themselves were never taken in by the scare tactics, but the unthinking have been multiplying like rabbits. :)

Kanary, who enjoys that the last sentence can be taken myriad ways. :hi: