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From EWTN: Misouri Bishops call to Catholics to Vote Life above all else yesterday!
- Given this political climate, Bishop Finn, along with the other Bishops of Missouri is calling on all the faithful to make the last week before the election “a week of prayer for our nation - a week of prayer for the protection of Human Life.”
- Invoking the intercession of Our Lady of the Rosary, Bishop Finn asks her to “watch over our country and bring us the victory of life.” The bishop of Kansas City-St. Joseph also turns to the Guardian Angels for their intercession on behalf of the 47 million babies lost through abortion in our country in the last thirty-five years.
- “This horrendous loss of life remains one of the greatest threats to human civilization we have ever faced,” he writes.
- “This week,” Bishop Finn exhorts his flock, “please pray and make some sacrifices for our country. I ask every parish to provide some additional opportunity for prayer in the church: an evening Mass, or rosary, or time of adoration before the Blessed Sacrament. Say the rosary as individuals or as a family, or even simply a decade each night with your children. Say the election prayer. Give up meat, or do without some convenience this week. Make a good Act of Contrition and get to Confession. Offer a worthy Communion.”
- Bishop Finn closes his column by announcing that he will preside over an Eve of the Election Mass at St. Therese Parish, North at 7:00 p.m. on November 3.
Catholics in Misouri number 1,119,942 or 20%....
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On June 27, 2008 The Vatican announced that the Holy Father had appointed Archbishop Raymond Burke to the prestigious position of Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura in Rome.
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He is the Chief Justice of the CC's Supreme Tribunal, which ensures that justice is correctly administered. Also known as the Church’s Supreme Court!
As Archbishop Burke leaves the St. Louis diocese, he is praised by North America's pro-life leaders as one of the most staunch and courageous defenders of the culture of life that his country has ever seen.
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On Sept 30. 2008 Archbishop Burke warned that the Democrat party is “at risk of becoming the ‘Death Party,’ due to its positions on bioethical questions as Ramesh Ponnuru wrote in his book, ‘The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts and the Disregard for Human Life’.”
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“Mine is not an isolated position. It is shared by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput from Denver, by Bishop Peter J. Jugis from Charlotte and a few others,” he answered, while noting that the bishops' conference has not "assumed this position, leaving each bishop free to make his own decision.”
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He continued, “I have always maintained that there must be a united position in order to demonstrate the unity of the Church when facing this serious issue.”
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Though a united decision has not been made, the archbishop noted: “Recently, I have noticed that other bishops are coming to this position” after statements from Pelosi and Biden. Though both have stated that they are “good Catholics, they have represented the Church teaching on abortion in a false and tendentious way.”
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This same theme was touched upon by then-Cardinal Ratzinger in 2004 in a letter to the American bishops, Burke noted.
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The Holy Father made it clear that “it is not licit to give Holy Communion to one who is publicly and commonly in a sinful state. In this sense, it is logical that one who publicly an commonly supports abortion falls into this category.”