Uruguay's Bishops Get It Why Don't America's?

Check out these 3 headlines. Notice the difference between the bold response of the Uruguayan (& Mexican) Bishops & the cop-outs by the 2 American Bishops. (Follow the links for the whole story.)

Uruguayan bishops: No Holy Communion for pro-abortion legislators

"Following a November 5 parliamentary vote in favor of the legalization of abortion, the bishops of Uruguay declared Friday that those who promote or vote in favor of such legislation are impeded from receiving Holy Communion until they change their position. The bishops cited Canons 1341 and 1398 in making their decision. "

Pro-Abortion Joe Biden is Receiving Communion and His Bishop Won't Tell Him to Stop

"In refusing to instruct Biden not to receive communion, however, Bishop Malooly appears to be going against Vatican instructions stating that priests "must" not offer Holy Communion to politicians who have excommunicated themselves by supporting abortion."

Boston's Cardinal O'Malley Seems Ignorant of the Fact that Rome Has Said Pro-Abortion Politicians 'Must' be Denied Communion

"While there may be debate among US Bishops over whether or not to deny Communion to pro-abortion politicians, for the Vatican there is no such debate. The issue was closed several years ago with a letter from Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI. The then-head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith intervened into a debate among the US Bishops on the issue in 2004. Cardinal Ratzinger said in his letter, titled Worthiness to receive Holy Communion, that a Catholic politician who would vote for permissive abortion and euthanasia laws' after being duly instructed and warned, 'must' be denied Communion. Ratzinger's letter explained that if such a politician 'with obstinate persistence, still presents himself to receive the Holy Eucharist, the minister of Holy Communion must refuse to distribute it.'"

At least Cardinal O'Malley got 1 thing right, how poor a job the Bishops have done on instructing & warning the pro-abortion politicians. "(T)he Cardinal responded that the church's teaching is in the Catechism, but added that the bishops have more teaching to do on the matter."

Also, Cardinal O'Malley might want to remember what Papa Benedetto said last Spring when he gave an in-flight press conference on his way to the USA. "Answering a reporter on an in-flight press conference in May last year, Benedict addressed a question on the Mexican bishops excommunicating politicians who support legalizing abortion. "Yes, this excommunication was not an arbitrary one but is allowed by Canon law which says that the killing of an innocent child is incompatible with receiving communion, which is receiving the body of Christ," he said."