Posted on 10/30/2019 7:20:56 PM PDT by ebb tide
October 30, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Pro-homosexual Jesuit Fr. James Martin called it a “bad idea” that politicians should be denied Holy Communion because of their support for abortion.
Hours after the news broke that a South Carolina priest, Fr. Robert Morey, denied Holy Communion to Joe Biden, former U.S. Vice President and current Democratic presidential candidate, because of his public support for abortion, Martin tweeted:According to Canon 915 of the Catholic Code of Canon Law, those who are “obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.”
“Holy Communion signifies we are one with God, each other and the Church,” said Fr. Morey when defending his decision to the Florence Morning News. “Our actions should reflect that. … Any public figure who advocates for abortion places himself or herself outside of Church teaching.”
Martin, a consultor with the Vatican Dicastery on Communications, appears to regard supporting the intrinsic evil of abortion — the direct taking of an innocent human life — as the moral equivalent of disagreeing with the pope’s encyclical on the environment.
Pope Benedict XVI, as then-Cardinal Ratizinger, head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, directly refuted this point in his 2004 memorandum: “Worthiness to Receive Holy Communion: General Principles.”
“Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia,” Ratzinger wrote.
“For example, if a Catholic were to be at odds with the Holy Father on the application of capital punishment or on the decision to wage war, he would not for that reason be considered unworthy to present himself to receive Holy Communion.”
Ideally the pastor should meet with a Catholic who is publicly persisting in manifest grave sin — “understood, in the case of a Catholic politician, as his consistently campaigning and voting for permissive abortion and euthanasia laws” — to instruct and warn him, Ratzinger wrote.
But even if such measures have not been taken when the individual presents himself for Holy Communion, “the minister of Holy Communion must refuse to distribute it,” Ratzinger wrote.
“This decision, properly speaking, is not a sanction or a penalty,” he added.
“Nor is the minister of Holy Communion passing judgment on the person’s subjective guilt, but rather is reacting to the person’s public unworthiness to receive Holy Communion due to an objective situation of sin.”
Fr. Martin is regarded as one of the most vocal advocates for the normalization of homosexuality within the Catholic Church. The celebrity priest and editor-at-large for Jesuit America Magazine consistently omits mention that the Catechism of the Catholic Church (2357, 2358) teaches that homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered and “under no circumstances can they be approved,” and that that same-sex inclination itself is an “objective disorder.”
In an August 2017 talk at Villanova University, Martin declared a Catholic attending a same-sex “wedding” is as acceptable as a Catholic attending a Jewish wedding, opined that nearly everyone who opposes same-sex “marriage” is “homophobic” and repeated his mantra that his critics are just secretly “gay”.
Martin also suggested that opposing same-sex “marriage” is like opposing interracial marriage and that African Catholics are one of the biggest obstacles to Church acceptance of homosexuality.
Moreover, his LGBTQ advocacy has become more brazen as the Francis pontificate continues, with Martin tweeting in September that in private meeting with the Holy Father, he “shared with (the pope) the joys and hopes, and the griefs and anxieties, of LGBT Catholics and LGBT people worldwide.”
More recently, Martin questioned the Bible’s condemnation of homosexuality, which earned him a rebuke from a U.S. bishop and a cardinal, and mused that the recently canonized Cardinal John Henry Newman was “gay.”
He also defended the annual retreat for “gay” priests held by New Ways Ministry, a dissident group long condemned by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, then accused LifeSiteNews of “homophobia at its most malign” for publishing an article describing the retreat as “a portal of hell.”
Yesterday, near the end of the first hour of the Mike Church Show, caller Tim Williams of Florence SC, called in to confirm that he was at Saint Anthony’s Catholic Church, standing within earshot of the former Vice President when he went to receive the Eucharist but Father Morley, correctly, asked him (Biden), Williams recalled “are you in a state of Grace? Have you been to confession in the last year? Are you still a supporter of access to abortion?” Williams heard no more dialogue, which was discreet, but Biden was turned away from the Sacrament and apparently left the Mass.
Can I declare to HR that I identify as gay, and get protected status?
SBIAD - straight, but identify as gay.
Seriously, I see liberal heads exploding on this one.
Ping
Would someone tell the Faggot Father James Martin to shut up and read the Catechism of the Catholic Church?
Why should I listen to Father Faggot Martin? After all, he is well down the road to Hell.
Praying for the priest in Florence, SC. God bless him!
Martin is a bad idea as a “priest.” These sin-worshippers, sodomites and infanticide cheerleaders need to be purged from the church like the malignant cancer that they are.
What happens when we get a prenatal test for LGBTQ? And the mothers decide to abort them because of the results? Not enough popcorn in the world............
Nobody can “give” Holy Communion. One can only TAKE it. If people who engage in homosexual acts and who abort babies can bring themselves to declare they are eating the flesh of Jesus and drinking His blood when they are taking the sacraments then so be it. It’s nobody else’s business. It’s between them and Jesus. As is the case with all of us. We don’t need a priest. Jesus IS our Priest.
Parading his abominations around shamelessly- and he thinks he’s saved?
Any such test will be strictly FORBIDDEN. Performing any such test will get you 25 to life in a federal pen.
“.. Pro-homosexual Jesuit Fr. James Martin.” Pro -homosexual Jesuit” Now who woulda thunk THAT?
Thank God for African Catholics.
I've been thinking of late that perhaps the appelation "Dark Continent" should be taken from Africa and given to Europe.
Well, since you don’t go along with the institution of the Sacramental Priesthood, you obviously have no belief in the Sacramental Real Presence, nor any reason to think “taking” it on your own personal authority would be an offense.
Like you, Biden thinks he has the right to to determine all these things-—true/false, right/wrong, good/evil -— by his own self, independent of the Church. You’re agreed with him on that.
Neither he nor you should approach to receive Christ’s Body and Blood. You know better than to do this. Biden -— he needs to be re-catechized.
Jesus came to deliver us from all that religious mumbo-jumbo and public hoop-jumping.
Not sure what you're getting at. Is your meaning, "Like in the Old Testament"?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.