Bishop of Springfield, Illinois lays down the Bane Hammer on Senator Durbin

The bishop cited Canon 915: those “who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.”

He then quoted the USCCB’s 2004 Statement on Catholics in Political Life: “Failing to protect the lives of innocent and defenceless members of the human race is to sin against justice,” it reads. “Those who formulate law therefore have an obligation in conscience to work toward correcting morally defective laws, lest they be guilty of cooperating in evil and in sinning against the common good.”

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