It needs to be emphasized that Canon 915 is NOT a canon that may be “applied” or “not applied.” Canon 915 can only be obeyed or disobeyed. And disobeying Canon 915 is always gravely sinful. Canon 915 exists precisely because giving Communion to a person “obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin” is always gravely sinful. Doing so is always to give grave scandal, and to participate knowingly in a sacrilegious act.
Let that sink in. Always gravely sinful.
In terms perhaps more familiar to the laity: To give Communion knowingly and deliberately to ANYONE delineated in Canon 915 is ALWAYS a mortal sin.
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If there’s any justice the lack of public discipline for Catholics who publically facilitate and promote abortion will be looked back at as dwarfing the homosexualist priest scandal.
FReegards
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The failure of Catholic bishops to excommunicate pro abortion Catholic politicians since the 1970’s did as much harm to the Church as the failure to purge decadent homosexual priests that were molesting young boys.
If you thought the answer was “pedophilia,”...
... that crisis was the ‘70’s manifestation of the same disease, a refusal to confront evil from within. Both crises amount to a desire to seek worldly ways of dealing evil. In the 1970s, the Church listened to secular psychological therapists, who said, “It’s just a sickness, which we can cure.”
1 cor chapter 11
18 For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.
19 For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
20 When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper.
21 For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
22 What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? what shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:
24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, this cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come.
27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.
I examine my self so i do not take communion because i would be doing it unworthily.
28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
As i have made plain before, i do not know if everything that Paul has written is what God told him to write or not, could he have written a few things that came from his own mind?
The Church leaders need to make up their minds if they believe every thing the scripture says actually comes from God.
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The solution to this problem might be found in the laity.
All that is really needed is to create a website which amounts to an indictment of these failed Catholics by name, and a listing of their cardinal sins. If done properly, it could have a strong impact amongst the laity, and eventually stimulate the clergy to act.
To make it more to the point, it might even name the bishop in whose diocese they engage in their behavior yet continue with the pretense. Without directly calling out the bishop for endorsing their behavior, certain diocese will stand out as having “a nest of vipers” within.
To really drive the point home, the languages of the website should be selectable as either English or Italian.
The Church decides morality. Advocacy for something to apply to politicians voting is political.
Father,
Why should any of these bishops change their tune when Francis himself allowed the same pro-aborts to receive communion at his inaugural mass?