Administrator of Charleston Diocese "Stepped In It"

Barbara Kralis, a prominent writer for various Christian and conservative publications has written an excellent, two-part defense of Father Jay Scott Newman who wrote the following to his congregation at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Greenville, South Carolina:

"Voting for a pro-abortion politician when a plausible pro-life alternative exists constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil, and those Catholics who do so place themselves outside of the full communion of Christ's Church and under the judgment of divine law. Persons in this condition should not receive Holy Communion until and unless they are reconciled to God in the Sacrament of Penance, lest they eat and drink their own condemnation."

In her article entitled "Administrator of the Catholic Diocese of Charleston stepped in it...", Kralis makes clear that not only is "Fr. Newman's Catholic parish very supportive of his courageous stand," he is backed by many members of the hierarchy throughout the United States and in Rome, and his statement is solidly grounded in "natural law and the written Word of God, proclaimed by the Catholic Church through its Sacred Tradition and through its Solemn and Ordinary Magisterium."

Whatever institutional politics prompted Monsignor Martin T. Laughlin's shameful repudiation of Father Newman's pastoral guidance, it points up the urgent need for the appointment of a competent, faithful bishop in Charleston whose heart and mind are one with the Church and its founder.

Barbara Kralis' article is here:

Part One

Part Two