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To: sitetest
Do convicted murderers on Death Row have a right to receive Communion?

Does anyone see anything wrong with that?

51 posted on 11/04/2014 12:08:35 PM PST by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: ZOOKER
Dear ZOOKER,

A repentant murderer on death row would be given Communion. An unrepentant murderer probably wouldn't even seek Communion, and it would be wrong to give it to him should he ask.

Conversely, the remarried divorce[e] is not repentant (save in the case where the two have agreed to live without marital relations). Let's be clear: it is not the divorce that was necessarily the sin. It was the attempted remarriage that was the sin, and the sin is renewed each time the remarried person has sex with his or her new “spouse.” It is adultery.

Thus, there is no question of forgiveness. Forgiveness is always available, but it really and truly helps if one acknowledges one’s guilt, and makes some purpose to try to amend one’s life. You know, something about, “Go and sin no more.”

It is nonsense to say that the remarried couple have repented of the sin of the on-going adultery if they don't even acknowledge that it is a continuing sin for them to engage in marital relations.

"Go[ing] and sin[ning] no more" would include separating from the second "marriage."

For those who find themselves remarried, if changing their marital status would cause harm to subsequent children, the couple must do their best to renounce engaging in “marital” relations, and live with each other in continence, as brother and sister. Then, they may freely receive Communion.


sitetest

57 posted on 11/04/2014 12:20:58 PM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: ZOOKER
Do convicted murderers on Death Row have a right to receive Communion?

If they've repented and been absolved of their sins, "Yes". Subject, of course, to reasonable security arrangements deemed necessary by the place of confinement.

Does anyone see anything wrong with that?

Not me.

61 posted on 11/04/2014 12:24:16 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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