Kerry cleared of heresy charge, but what about Bush?

[loathesomeshrub]

"As you may know, this presidential election has been roiled by claims from certain conservative Catholics--including a noisy minority of Bishops--that Catholics emperil their souls by voting for John Kerry, whose views on abortion, gay marriage, and stem cell research allegedly divide him fatally from Church teachings, making him a self-excommunicated heretic.

Yesterday, according to the Catholic News Service, an unnamed Vatican official representing the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith addressed this argument by saying: "No, Kerry is not a heretic."

Now that we've cleared that up, Catholics might want to apply a similar test to President Bush, whose campaign has made a mighty effort to convince Catholic voters they have a religious duty to vote Republican this year"
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"Although he does not appear to belong to any specific religious congregation, Mr. Bush has publicly identified himself as a "born-again Christian" of the Methodist denomination. He is thus presumptively an adherent of the Protestant Heresy, condemned most notably and definitively by the sixteenth-century Council of Trent. If so, Bush has implicitly embraced an array of subordinate heresies, including:

* Denial of the teaching authority of the Church (the basis, BTW, for questions about Mr. Kerry's views on abortion, gay marriage, and stem cell research).
* Bibliolatry (rejection of Church tradition as amplifying and interpreting scriptural authority)
* Symbolism (rejection of the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist)
* Sacrilege (rejection of marriage, holy orders, penance, confirmation and extreme unction as valid Sacraments of the Church)
* Dishonoring the Mother of God (rejection of the dogmas of the Immaculate Conception, Assumption and Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary)
* Schism (rejection of papal authority and establishment of a separate ecclesiastical structure) "




http://www.newdonkey.com/2004/10/kerry-cleared-of-heresy-charge-but.html

[Inland]

1. Say==maybe this heresy talk is all about politics and not religion at all!

[mia]

2. Bush is also the antithesis of everything I love about Jesus

[loathesomeshrub]

3. Excellent!

[burrowowl]

4. Link to article on Catholic News Service

need, am campaigning for Kerry in conservative Catholic area. Got Ratzinger's comments.