My Daily Domestic Clips 10/29/2010 (p.m.)

• Cardinal-Designate Burke Says Catholics Cannot Vote for Candidates Who Are Pro-Choice – Annotated tags: abortion catholic election
  • Just ahead of Election Day, one of the most influential American churchmen in the Vatican, Cardinal-designate Raymond L. Burke, has warned Catholic voters in the United States that they may never vote for politicians who support abortion rights or same-sex marriage, position usually associated with Democratic candidates.

    Burke, an outspoken conservative and the former archbishop of
    St. Louis who will
    be made a cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI next month, made his remarks in a videotaped interview in Rome with Thomas J. McKenna, head of Catholic Action for Faith and Family, a conservative lobbying group based in San Diego.

    In
    the interview, which Catholic
    Action taped on Oct. 20 and started promoting Thursday on YouTube, McKenna
    asks Burke, “Is it ever licit for a Catholic to vote for a pro-abortion
    candidate, a candidate who either in a platform or who has voted, has shown
    himself to support that. Is it ever valid?”

    “No,” Burke answers. “You can
    never vote for someone who favors absolutely the right to choice of a woman to
    destroy a human life in her womb or the right to a procured abortion.”

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