{"id":7090,"date":"2004-07-04T23:26:58","date_gmt":"2004-07-04T23:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/07\/from_legal_land.html"},"modified":"2004-07-04T23:26:58","modified_gmt":"2004-07-04T23:26:58","slug":"from_legal_land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/07\/from_legal_land.html","title":{"rendered":"From Legal Land"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canon lawyer files heresy suit against Kerry<\/a><\/p>\n

Mr. Balestrieri said he filed the heresy charge \u2014 plus an additional complaint charging “harm” to himself as a result of Mr. Kerry’s pronouncements on abortion and related issues \u2014 because canon law entitles Catholics to “possession of the faith unharmed.”
\n“By spreading heresy, he is endangering not just mine by every Catholic’s possession of the faith,” he said.
\n“I am inviting all baptized Catholics who feel injured by Kerry to join the suit as third parties” by reading the document on the Web site and then sending a certified letter of agreement to the Boston Archdiocese.
\n“People are saying you can be pro-choice and be a good Christian, that it is not contrary to the faith to support aborted murder,” Mr. Balestrieri said. “This is a life-threatening heresy.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The complaint.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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