Given the terrible problems your denomination is having with its leadership, denying the Lord’s Supper to individuals who want to seek God seems the least of your problems...
As an example...
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3218873/posts
There are many more I could post. Those seem far more important issues, that if not changed will end what is left of the Roman Denomination.
“Given the terrible problems your denomination is having with its leadership, denying the Lord’s Supper to individuals who want to seek God seems the least of your problems... As an example... http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3218873/posts There are many more I could post. Those seem far more important issues, that if not changed will end what is left of the Roman Denomination.”
Yeah, I have numerous friends who left the church because of this very issue and whose children were subsequently not raised in the church.
For 2,015 years the Catholic church has been doing just fine thank you....these important issues, and hundreds of others have challenged the church since Christ established it. Remember that He promised that He would be with her until the end of time and so far He is doing just fine!!!
If I had a nickel for every time I heard or read that the Catholic Church is in trouble, I’d have...a lot of nickels!
The gates of hell shall not prevail against the Catholic Church.
Souls falling into mortal sin could never be the "least" of our problems, especially for the priests and bishops who are entrusted to be shepherds of souls.
If a person wishes to seek God, they are warmly invited to make a good Confession --- this is the Sacrament for them --- repenting of their sins, and intending not to commit them anymore, so that they may then receive Communion worthily with us, their fellow repentant sinners.
