{"id":442,"date":"2008-04-28T16:13:27","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T16:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=442"},"modified":"2025-09-30T02:22:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:22:23","slug":"cardinal-egan-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=442","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Egan statement on Rudolph Giuliani receiving communion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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UPDATE:<\/u><\/strong> We received an email pointing out that this column by Robert Novak may have been the motivation for Cardinal Egan’s press release <\/em>Disobeying the Pope – HUMAN EVENTS<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 28, 2008<\/span><\/p>\n

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                        <\/span>                        <\/span>            <\/span>FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:<\/span><\/p>\n

                        <\/span>                        <\/span>            <\/span>Joseph Zwilling<\/span><\/p>\n

                        <\/span>                        <\/span>            <\/span>212-371-1011 ext. 2997<\/span><\/p>\n

                        <\/span>                        <\/span>            <\/span>516-437-7931<\/span><\/p>\n

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The following is a statement issued by Edward Cardinal Egan:<\/u>  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201c The Catholic Church clearly teaches that abortion is a grave offense against the will of God.  <\/span>Throughout my years as Archbishop of New York, I have repeated this teaching in sermons, articles, addresses, and interviews without hesitation or compromise of any kind.   <\/span>Thus it was that I had an understanding with Mr. Rudolph Giuliani, when I became Archbishop of New York and he was serving as Mayor of New York, that he was not to receive the Eucharist because of his well-known support of abortion.  <\/span>I deeply regret that Mr. Giuliani received the Eucharist during the Papal visit here in New York, and I will be seeking a meeting with him to insist that he abide by our understanding.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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UPDATE: We received an email pointing out that this column by Robert Novak may have been the motivation for Cardinal Egan’s press release Disobeying the Pope – HUMAN EVENTS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 28, 2008                                                            […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":986,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}