Cardinal Egan Slams Giuliani for Receiving Communion at Papal Mass

From LifeSiteNews:

NEW YORK, April 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The decision by several prominent pro-abortion politicians to publicly receive Holy Communion at papal Masses during the recent visit of Pope Benedict XVI, despite clear Church teaching that says that their reception of Communion would constitute a grave sacrilege, may have backfired. While at first it seemed like it would be business as usual, today Cardinal Edward Egan of New York issued a statement condemning the reception of Holy Communion by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

The Archdiocese informed LifeSiteNews.com that the issue is being brought forward publicly at this time "because it has become a public issue and a public question." [Continued here...]

And Dr Edward Peters writes:

Four cheers for New York's Cardinal Egan

Four cheers, not three.

Three for telling Rudy Giuliani, a notorious supporter of legalized abortion, that Canon 915 means what it says, that those who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin are subject to the withholding of Holy Communion. Chronic promotion of abortion, in which Rudy engages, is a grave sin. See Cdl. Ratzinger's letter of June 2004....[Continued]

Interesting developments..."Catholic" politicians who support the murder of the unborn need to be admonished and barred from their continued sacrilege.