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Pro-LGBT Fr. James Martin calls for DeSantis to be denied Communion for supporting death penalty
LifeSite News ^ | February 27, 2023 | Louis Knuffke

Posted on 02/28/2023 4:57:20 PM PST by ebb tide

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On Bergoglio's Jesuit Fantasy Island, pro-abort politicians are entitled to Holy Communion, while anybody who supports capital punishment is unwelcome.

While Bergoglio reverses the Church's teaching on the just use of the death penalty, he's calling for the decriminalization of laws against sodomy.

1 posted on 02/28/2023 4:57:20 PM PST by ebb tide
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2 posted on 02/28/2023 4:58:56 PM PST by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

I must agree with father freakshow..
But for a different reason.
An illegitimate and corrupt government like ours has no moral authority to kill anyone.


3 posted on 02/28/2023 5:05:28 PM PST by BAN-ONE
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Heretical pro-LGBT Jesuit priest Fr. James Martin has called for conservative Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is Catholic, to be denied Communion because he supports the death penalty.

Fr. James Martin must not know the difference between killing innocent babies, and killing a guilty man or woman. The unborn are innocent.

Fr. Martin should know that killing babies is wrong.

Following the law after a trial by judge and jury is really really not the same as killing the innocent for your convenience.

4 posted on 02/28/2023 5:07:04 PM PST by olezip
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To: ebb tide

The church used to be big on executions, had that inquisition thing down.


5 posted on 02/28/2023 5:12:02 PM PST by DejaJude (I'll be back, again.)
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To: ebb tide

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.


6 posted on 02/28/2023 5:12:30 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (D.I.S.T.R.A.C.T.I.O.N.S.)
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To: ebb tide

This DEMON has said that politicians who support abortion should not be denied communion.

Killing innocent babies? Well, that’s between you and God. Killing brutal murderers? Wait a minute. No communion for you


7 posted on 02/28/2023 5:15:47 PM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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To: ebb tide
This may sound a bit weak for a Catholic, but does “render unto Caesar” apply here? DeSantis is doing his executive duty to enforce existing law. That’s quite different than getting or preforming an abortion. There’s no law saying if you get pregnant and the whim strikes you that you have to murder your baby.

Being a former Protestant I’ve had to struggle with my stance on the death penalty. One rationale is that Christ himself was accepting of capital punishment, although there’s no Bible verse to support that. I’ve always been anti-abortion, so that’s never been an issue. I tacitly go along with being anti-capital punishment, but frequently find myself advocating it for rhetorical purposes to essentially say a murderer should receive the most severe of punishments. Then again, I’m not upset when a murderer receives life in prison instead of the death sentence. That I consider a far worse punishment.

8 posted on 02/28/2023 5:27:01 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: ebb tide

bkmk


9 posted on 02/28/2023 5:27:27 PM PST by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: ebb tide

Jesus to be denied communion for supporting the death penalty...

God declared capital punishment for certain offenses. God also commanded Israelites to execute other peoples, and in some cases, all of them and their animals. Its not like He was suddenly all wrong about it, and changed His mind.


10 posted on 02/28/2023 5:36:24 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ebb tide

Plenty of Demoxrats support the death penalty, including, last time I checked, President Biden. Why doesn’t he think Biden should be denied?


11 posted on 02/28/2023 5:39:33 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: ebb tide

Does this mean pro-abortion should be denied Communion?


12 posted on 02/28/2023 5:40:09 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: DejaJude; ebb tide

Civil authorities did that.


13 posted on 02/28/2023 5:41:39 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: ConservativeInPA

The Torah permits the death penalty for some offenses.


14 posted on 02/28/2023 5:42:17 PM PST by maro (MAGA!)
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It’s that pesky New Testament thingy that gets in the way for Catholics.


15 posted on 02/28/2023 5:50:56 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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Correct!


16 posted on 02/28/2023 5:55:34 PM PST by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

This freak show Martin oughtta be lit up at the stake!


17 posted on 02/28/2023 5:57:08 PM PST by bantam
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To: ConservativeInPA

Let’s be clear. Catholics do not forbid the death penalty.


18 posted on 02/28/2023 5:58:23 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: ConservativeInPA

Where does it say in the NT that capital punishment is wrong?

The issue in the Catholic Church is odd. Pope JP II put it in the Catachism and it was basically a new thing and then they had to re-write that section because it has never been a teaching of the Church that capital punishment is wrong.

They based on the necessity for CP being based on social self-defense, which they felt was covered by better prisons, but that is not the only basis for it and so I remain personally not against it, overall.


19 posted on 02/28/2023 6:01:20 PM PST by Chicory
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Plenty of Demoxrats support the death penalty, including, last time I checked, President Biden.

Biden definitely supports the death penalty (for innocent babies, that is).

20 posted on 02/28/2023 6:01:57 PM PST by ebb tide
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