- Target:
- Catholic Pro-Lifers
- Region:
- GLOBAL
- Website:
- www.socon.ca
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The petition below is in support of 52 Pro-Life Leaders who recently submitted a Declaration to the Bishops of the Catholic Church. The petition is the same as the Declaration submitted, except the words "Pro-Life Leaders", has been changed to "the Catholic Laity, Priests, and Religious".
The report on the story and the Declaration can be read here:
52 pro-life leaders worldwide call on bishops to deny Communion to pro-abortion politicians.
Please also consider signing these similar petitions:
1) To retract the treacherous Winnipeg Statement.
2) To bring out the Eucharist at the March for Life (Canada).
We, the Catholic Laity, Priests, and Religious, call on the Bishops of the World to Extend Mercy to the Church’s Pro-Abortion Politicians
WHEREAS Saint Paul wrote in the eleventh chapter of First Corinthians: "For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord" (1 Cor. 11:29);
WHEREAS Canon 915 of the Church’s Code of Canon Law states that those who are “obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion”;
WHEREAS Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger wrote in a 2004 letter to the US bishops, called "Worthiness to receive Holy Communion", that a Catholic politician who votes for permissive abortion and euthanasia laws "must" be denied Communion after being duly instructed and warned;
WHEREAS Catholic politicians who support abortion are already in grave sin, and in receiving Holy Communion their sin is compounded by sacrilege;
WHEREAS by being given Holy Communion such Catholic politicians may well believe that they are spiritually healthy and thus not in need of any remedy;
WHEREAS distributing Holy Communion to pro-abortion politicians causes scandal to the rest of the faithful in that they come to believe that support for abortion is not too serious a sin, and thus undermines pro-life work;
WHEREAS being refused Holy Communion is an effective wake-up call to return to an authentic life of faith;
WHEREAS it is unmerciful to allow our brothers living in obstinate public sin to languish there without warning;
We the undersigned ask the Bishops of the Catholic Church to withhold Holy Communion from pro-abortion politicians as an act of love and mercy towards those same politicians.
The Ban Pro-Abort Politicians from Communion petition to Catholic Pro-Lifers was written by John Pacheco and is in the category Human Rights at GoPetition.