Posted on 04/01/2014 3:25:16 PM PDT by NYer
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, March 31, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Speaking with LifeSiteNews about the matter of worthiness to receive Holy Communion last week, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone said that Church teaching on the matter “has been very clear and consistent from literally the very beginning."
The Church's teaching goes "all the way back to St. Paul who writes in 1 Corinthians that anyone who does not receive the Eucharist worthily, that is if they are in a state of sin, blasphemes the body and blood of the Lord," the archbishop explained.
The leader of San Francisco’s 444,000 Catholics noted that those who would dissent “from a defined Church teaching” and those who would violate the moral teaching of the Church in a serious way, “are not properly disposed to receive Holy Communion.”
“As St. Paul teaches, if they dare to approach knowing that they are in such a state of sin, they bring condemnation upon themselves,” he said. “This is not a harsh judgment of the Church, but our understanding of the Eucharist is that it is not simply a way of welcoming people, a way of affirming people.”
He concluded by noting that the sacrament of penance is there for all Catholics who find themselves in such situations so they can “confess their sins and receive sacramental absolution to be restored to a state of grace so they can worthily receive Holy Communion.”
You are contradicting him, he didn’t just apologize, he confessed, and he is selling the building.
Not according to his letter in the Bulletin. The AD council is going to consider the best way to deal with it. Unless they want to waste money at the whim of a couple of meddling women and are afraid of the media, they’ll keep it.< p>
This is no different than the LGBT crowd intimidating the CEO of Mozilla. Just a different prejudice.
Did you even read post 18?
The man confessed, and says that he wants to sell the building, he didn’t blame it on his Catholic parishioners, he blamed himself, and wonders how he let it get past him.
The letter acknowledges that the decisions were cost effective - but nobody expected this to suddenly become a huge PR issue two years after the plans were approved.
That's not a confession of any sort - just an acknowledgment of the public outcry. Which has been driven by a couple of women in the parish who think they run the parish, didn't like the decision and ran to the media.
THAT is what I find disgusting - that, and a bishop allowing himself to be intimidated by the media and a couple of Church Ladies. John Hughes would have handed them their heads, and he wouldn't have been very polite about it.
While I understand and respect some of your argument, the bequest was for the CHURCH, not the ABP. So the CHURCH decided to spend the money. Moreover, I do not care who comes to visit the ABP, even the Pope himself. That is no reason to have expensive digs. Everything is a matter of perception. And especially in these days where religion is under continuous attack. The CEO argument fails miserably in the context of religion.
Wow, why are Catholic threads so often full of desperation from Catholics?
He confessed and he wants to sell the building, and I have no idea why you want to beat this dead horse to death.
“I personally failed to project the cost in terms of my own integrity and pastoral credibility with the people of God of north and central Georgia,” he said.
“I failed to consider the impact on the families throughout the Archdiocese who, though struggling to pay their mortgages, utilities, tuition and other bills, faithfully respond year after year to my pleas to assist with funding our ministries and services,”
“Archbishop Gregory said that after consultation, he hoped that the archdiocese would sell the residence”
I went to high school with him when he was known as Sam. Great guy. Hope to see him at our 40th reunion this year.
Suit yourself. It’s obvious your mind is made up.
Only $300K of the bequest to the Archdiocese was spent on the "$2.2 million home". So to those of you who were saying "the Archbishop ought to spend no more than $200K on a house" . . . he was close.
The real property was free and clear as part of the bequest. $1.9M was realized by selling the old archbishop's residence to the Cathedral for use as the Cathedral rectory. Mr. Mitchell left $ 15 million to the Archdiocese in liquid assets. Of that, $3.75M went directly to charitable use - Catholic Charities Atlanta and several other charities. Another $3.75M went to Catholic schools in the Archdiocese, parish endowments, the Disadvantaged Parish Fund, and the Priests' Pension fund (split just about evenly among them). $7.5M went to capital investment in the Cathedral property.
Waiting for an apology from all of the people who were calling the Archbishop everything but a child of God . . . . waiting . . . waiting . . .
Doubtful they will see this comment. Do you have a link to original article? Post it, freepmail me and I will ping it. Good to hear this has been clarified.
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