Bishop Burke Has Remained Consistent on Voting Pro-Life Despite Media Misrepresentation

Campaign Life Catholic, told LifeSiteNews.com that Bishop Burke's position has remained consistent. Suresh Dominic, spokesman for the organization, explained to LifeSiteNews.com what proportionate reasons could be.

"In North America, where abortion - the slaughter of the innocent and most helpless among us - is rampant, abortion is the central human rights concern and thus the overriding political concern in all elections.

"All who would vote for a pro-abortion politician would associate themselves with that atrocity.

"However, in a case where two pro-abortion politicians are vying for election, a pro-life Catholic may, in good conscience, vote for the politician who will give at least minimal protection to life such as the case where one of the pro-abortion politicians would support a partial-birth abortion ban."

This is exactly what must be stated loudly and clearly to Catholics who are confused on the issue!

The St. Louis diocese will release a document clarifying the moral position of Catholics who support pro-abortion politicians. This statement will include Burke's qualifications that the reasons a voter is supporting a candidate have to weigh more heavily than his or her support for the killing of the unborn. However, the damage to the Bishop's position will have been done by the time any official statement comes out. By Saturday, newspapers in Chicago, New York, Fort Worth, Seattle, Sioux City, London England and Taiwan had run the story and flashed headlines around the world that the Archbishop has 'flip-flopped' on his strong stand.

This is, perhaps, the main reason to limit one's interviews with reporters from the Post-Dispatch.

Will all of these news outlets give as much coverage to Archbishop Burke's upcoming pastoral letter when it is released? We'll see.

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