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Pro-abortion Biden and Pelosi receive communion, but not from Pope at inaugural Mass
Life Site News ^ | March 20, 2013 | John-Henry Westen

Posted on 03/20/2013 11:03:38 AM PDT by Zakeet

Pro-abortion Catholics Vice President Joe Biden and House Leader Nancy Pelosi both received Holy Communion at the inauguration Mass of Pope Francis in the Vatican yesterday. However, while the Pope did administer Communion to deacons assisting at the altar, he did not distribute Communion to any of the dignitaries present.

Pope Benedict XVI stressed throughout his pontificate and before it began that pro-abortion politicians should be denied Communion.

Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro, the head of the Rome office of Human Life International told LifeSiteNews that “While some Americans were perfectly entitled to received Communion, like Congressman Smith, as Cardinal Raymond Burke has said so eloquently, politicians who consider themselves Catholic but support abortion should absent themselves from Holy Communion.”

US News and World Report quotes press pools at the inaugural Mass reporting Biden and Pelosi did receive Communion. And the Washington Times notes that Biden’s office has confirmed it.

Vice President Biden was received in a short meeting by Pope Francis. Monsignor Barreiro explained, “When you have diplomatic relations with a country you can’t refuse to receive them in a lineup, you can however refuse them Holy Communion.”

Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life said, according to the Times: "Vice President Biden and Nancy Pelosi should certainly not receive Communion, either at the papal installation or anywhere else. Communion means ‘union,’ and they are not in union with the church on the most fundamental moral issue of the right to life.”


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We took communion anyway because we are a greater authority on Catholic doctrine than the Pope ... and as elected Democrats we can overrule him any time we want!

1 posted on 03/20/2013 11:03:39 AM PDT by Zakeet
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To: narses; NYer
Ping to an article of interest.
2 posted on 03/20/2013 11:04:43 AM PDT by Zakeet (Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage - Mencken)
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To: Zakeet

Enjoy those burning coals you heap on your heads, kids.


3 posted on 03/20/2013 11:05:54 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Fighting Obama without Boehner & McConnell is like going deer hunting without your accordion)
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To: Zakeet

Being Catholic is rather convenient.
We can pretend to be experts so that our contrary words carry weight.
Plus, we get invited to Papal happenings when Obama doesn't feel like going.

4 posted on 03/20/2013 11:17:15 AM PDT by Slyfox (The Key to Marxism is Medicine ~ Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Zakeet

In my eyes, there goes the credibility of the new pope. He could have given instructions not to give communion to those two brazen apostates. The Vatican blew a great opportunity.


5 posted on 03/20/2013 11:17:31 AM PDT by forgotten man (forgotten man)
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To: Zakeet

” Pope Benedict XVI stressed throughout his pontificate and before it began that pro-abortion politicians should be denied Communion.”

Talk is cheap. They’ll be taking Holy Communion until they die, and then the church will bury them with full pomp. No wonder the church has lost the respect of so many Christians.


6 posted on 03/20/2013 11:18:50 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: forgotten man
there goes the credibility of the new pope. He could have given instructions not to give communion to those two brazen apostates

I totally agree. They should have been excommunicated as they tried to receive communion. No two ways about it. To have not done that is disgusting.

7 posted on 03/20/2013 11:20:43 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: txrefugee

This reminds me of when there were two Roman Catholic Cardinals at the funeral of Ted Kennedy (D-Hell). Nauseating.


8 posted on 03/20/2013 11:22:15 AM PDT by forgotten man (forgotten man)
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To: forgotten man

Are you Catholic?


9 posted on 03/20/2013 11:27:52 AM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Texas is a state of mind - Steinbeck)
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To: Zakeet

I can well imagine Pelosi and Biden grinding their teeth fuming for the ‘slight’.

“Don’t you know Who I AM?”


10 posted on 03/20/2013 11:28:06 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Zakeet

Grrrr....moral conscience is just an annoyance to these political types.


11 posted on 03/20/2013 11:29:13 AM PDT by sassy steel magnolia
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To: forgotten man; Zakeet
He could have given instructions not to give communion to those two brazen apostates.

These 'apostates' as you call them, are accountable to their bishop. I don't know if you watched the mass yesterday but the bishops were inside the basilica. Communion was distributed by hundreds of priests. The bishop would have sent word through intermediaries to Biden and Pelosi not to present themselves for communion unless they went to confession. The priests distributing communion come from all parts of the globe and do not have a checklist from the bishops of who has been to confession, when or a checklist of all the worldwide apostates who might just happen to present themselves at whatever station they were assigned. Ultimately, both Biden and Pelosi were informed. If they presented themselves for communion, then they did so in an unworthy manner and reap the consequence on themselves. [1 Cor. 11:27]

And while you are checking scripture, you may want to look up Matthew 7:1.

12 posted on 03/20/2013 11:29:24 AM PDT by NYer (Beware the man of a single book - St. Thomas Aquinas)
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To: Zakeet

Unbelievable....


13 posted on 03/20/2013 11:33:41 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Zakeet
Don't usually comment on religion threads, but this is part of the trouble with the Catholic church.
I am a Catholic and this was wrong on the church's part.
There are absolutes and this was absolutely wrong.

Nuff said.

14 posted on 03/20/2013 11:36:44 AM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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To: Zakeet

Pelosi should be excommunicated. During the Fluke fluke, she proclaimed publicly that the Pope is wrong.

No wafer for you!


15 posted on 03/20/2013 11:37:21 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: forgotten man
"In my eyes, there goes the credibility of the new pope. He could have given instructions not to give communion to those two brazen apostates."

Doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Nobody seems to have the balls to stand up to these miserable miscreants.

16 posted on 03/20/2013 11:38:31 AM PDT by DJ Frisat ((optional, printed after my name on post))
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To: Zakeet

Who is the stooge who gave them communion and why was he allowed to? Whoever it is should be fired.


17 posted on 03/20/2013 11:39:39 AM PDT by dennisw (too much of a good thing is a bad thing --- Joe Pine)
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To: Zakeet

They should have been refused anything the Church has to offer if there were any principles involved.


18 posted on 03/20/2013 11:44:33 AM PDT by soycd
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To: NYer
In terms of an individual claiming to be a believer but circumvent the doctrines (In this case proudly sticking thumbs up noses and telling the leadership that they are misguided through their actions), Matthew 18:15-17 counters one of the most misinterpreted verses in the Bible, Matthew 7:1.

Of course it's these two clown's Bishop that is responsible, but Matthew 18:15-17 and any other corresponding command will perpetually go unheeded.

With the threat of ending tax deductions that swirl loudly in the air over these weak Bishops that oversee the unrepentant and defiant earthly politicians, the faith fails to produce teeth which guides the common believers. No wonder a lot of Roman Catholics vote for modern day Democrats, they are apparently Church sanctioned and a-ok with the leadership. If not, they would be driven out, just like the Words of Jesus as well as other examples in the Letters command.
19 posted on 03/20/2013 11:57:52 AM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: NYer

Or Matthew 7:4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove that splinter from your eye,’ while the wooden beam is in your eye?


20 posted on 03/20/2013 12:05:34 PM PDT by mc5cents
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