I agree with the idea that the Catholic Church has the right to enforce its beliefs upon those who claim to be Catholic. What I find interesting is two things....
1) To a Catholic, not receiving communion in the Catholic church is essentially denying them salvation. So that means that
2) Catholics believe that a living mortal can deny another mortal either their salvation or access to salvation.
(As a side note, I’m not a catholic and don’t believe most of their dogmas but I do agree that they or any other voluntary organization should enforce what they say is right or what they believe. Force the pretenders out.)
Praise God!
He’s right.
God bless and keep Archbishop Allen Vigneron.
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This is the kind of thing that Detroit needs most of all. Moral courage.
How nice to hear a US Bishop support Truth and not be “afraid” of making Satanists mad.
It has been DECADES since the Catholic Church in America has followed Catholic Canon (except SSPX ) ...
(actually, since Vatican II-—and does what the Church is designed to do-—proclaim the TRUTH and save souls.
They have blurred the truth with their alter girls/boys (got to emasculate the boys and make girls and boys interchangeable) and Marxist “social justice” crud and all the other pursuits of man-centered worship.....disgusting.
What really ticks me off (and there is not much that does : ) is the sloppy dress and the kumbaya “peace” glad-handing right in the middle of the most profound part of the liturgy. It is disgusting. The dress of the nuns is disgusting.-—The separation of the “Spanish” mass is Marxist to the core to separate, divide and destroy communities. Makes the elderly whites feel like bigots in the church that they spent a lifetime supporting. It is a slap in their face and feeds into the hate. Disgusting.
They better bring dignity and respect back to the mass that the Marxists ejected with Vatican II-—just like evil Marxists do-—destroy traditions-—like Bella Dodd stated——the infiltration in the 30’s and 40’s-—with the homosexual Marxists intimidated and chased off the good (Fr Oko’s report) and took control in the 60’s with Vatican II.
I am waiting to “see” how Catholic the Pope really is.
“....should not present themselves to receive Communion.”
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Why couldn’t the Archbishop have bluntly said that they should be denied Communion until they officially recant?
So I’m guessing the Detroit Archbishop would look askance at the situation in my parish in which a Communion minister comes to church with his male partner and their two adopted children. Yes, that’s right. He not only receives communion, he distributes it as an extraordinary minister. Years ago, they would have called such a situation, giving scandal. Today, they mumble “Do not judge” about everything.
Has this EVER been enforced? I’m thinking we are watching hot air, not doctrine.