(CNSNews.com) – To deny Holy Communion to pro-abortion politicians who are Catholic, such as Secretary of State John Kerry, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, “makes perfect sense” because it is a discipline that goes back to St. Paul, “the very first years of the Church,” said Cardinal Raymond Burke, the former archbishop of St. Louis and now the chief justice at the Vatican’s highest court.
In an interview with EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo on Dec. 13, Cardinal Burke explained that it is necessary to protect the Sacrament, the Communion wafer offered at Masses, from “being profaned, being violated by someone receiving unworthily,” someone “who knows that he or she is unworthy and yet presumes to come forward and to take the Holy Eucharist.”
Just today the new Pope kicked him off an important Vatican committee because of statements like this, his influence will be nominal from now on. Go Francis!
The pastor of the parish I lived in before we moved here said that in the seminary, he was taught that communion should be denied only to someone who was "openly and notoriously living a sinful life." The example given by the instructor was Al Capone. Enough said.
When the Church denies sacraments to pro-death penalty Republicans, (a stance at odds with church doctrine) then I might believe this isn't politically motivated.
How about all the Catholics that use birth control (look at your family size father) and the ones who are divorced and remarried?
ReplyDeleteone has to be quite foolish to let another man get in between their personal relationship with God
ReplyDeleteJust today the new Pope kicked him off an important Vatican committee because of statements like this, his influence will be nominal from now on. Go Francis!
ReplyDelete11:11 you hit the nail on the head!
ReplyDeleteI can't ever imagine Jesus telling another person that they were not worthy to partake in anything he was involved in.
ReplyDeleteHe who is without sin cast the first stone.
Agreed 12:39 and that seems to be why the Pope has had it with these guys.
ReplyDeleteThe pastor of the parish I lived in before we moved here said that in the seminary, he was taught that communion should be denied only to someone who was "openly and notoriously living a sinful life." The example given by the instructor was Al Capone. Enough said.
ReplyDelete12:39 Does that include homosexuals?
ReplyDelete4:23 Yup.....sorry to disappoint. Pope already addressed this "Who am I to judge?
ReplyDeleteWhen the Church denies sacraments to pro-death penalty Republicans, (a stance at odds with church doctrine) then I might believe this isn't politically motivated.
ReplyDeleteKick her out of the Church
ReplyDelete8:36 I agree with that, so not a disappointment at all.
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