Burke clarifies position on votingAnybody who thinks the recent Post Article is a definitive statement from Archbishop Burke on voting and proportionality is confused. In a similar manner, anyone associated with a dissident group which rejects various teachings of the Church or which is opposed to the Church is devoid of a "well formed" conscience. It is an utter impossibility that the Holy Spirit would lead the Church in one direction while leading others in the opposite direction.
Archbishop Raymond Burke did not give St. Louis Catholics much credit for intelligence when he said that we were confused by what he meant to say in June about the sinfulness of voting the wrong way. We knew exactly what he meant to say.
His current backtracking - explained by calling it "remote material cooperation and if the reasons are really proportionate" - might sound good in La Crosse, Wis., but we call it "common sense" here.
Perhaps he is beginning to understand that we Catholics will act on our own well-formed consciences, whether he agrees or not. Welcome to St. Louis, Archbishop Burke.
Robert Schutzius
Secretary, Association for the Rights of Catholics in the Church
Florissant
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