Posted on 10/28/2019 8:05:17 AM PDT by I-ambush
Sorry for the vanity, it wanted to report on an event at our parish, St. Anthony of Padua, in Florence, SC. Joe Biden attended Mass yesterday and our guy good and conservative priest first handed him prolife literature, which Biden quickly set aside. Then, when Joe presented himself for Communion, he was given only a blessing instead. Did not see this in the press.
I didn’t witness it personally, because I went to a later Mass, but my wife learned of it when she went to church this morning.
The verb "to refuse" in this context is ambiguous.
The headline does not make clear whether Biden refused Communion or was refused Communion.
I propose substituting the verb "to denied" for "to refuse."
Biden denied Communion
Much clearer!
Regards,
Pro-death politicians were not to be offered communion.
Canon 915, one of the canons in the current Code of Canon Law of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church, forbids the administration of Holy Communion to those upon whom the penalty of excommunication or interdict has been imposed or declared or who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin:
Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to holy communion.
Both are confusing because the actual subject is not in the phrase.
The Catholic Church (in particular certain Bishops and senior clergy) have unholy ties to the Democrat Party.
This is WHY Democrat politicians have largely been able to go on receiving Communion for five decades despite never meeting an abortion they would not vote for.
It’s WHY Teddy Kennedy could always get an annulment. WHY Priests talked Mary Jo Kopechne’s family out of filing charges, etc.
This Priest will, in some sense become a sort of martyr once that black hand decides to carry out Joe’s revenge. I’m sure of it.
Just reminding us all that Trump has done more to stop abortions than have all of the U.S. Presidents, Democrat and Republican, since Roe vs Wade, combined.
Is this TRUE??? HALLELUJAH!!!
Nothing is going to happen to Father.Half the time Joe Biden doesn’t know if he’s coming or going.
May the Lord protect and keep your good priest from harm or repercussion. I hope he gave a fiery homily to help save that poor pathetic politician’s soul!
Hope for the Catholic Church yet.
WOW! Your priest is a profile in courage. God Bless Him!
e.g. — the thoroughly disgraced McCarrick.
Was typing in a hurry between cases. Sorry I didn’t meet up to your journalistic standards.
I spoke to another parishioner who was in the front row, and he said Biden was angry, and not at all abashed.
If more Catholic priests did this to Catholic politicians who support abortion and the gay agenda, the Church would be stronger, not weaker. The rogues would leave, and the remnant would be real Catholics. In my area alone, Sen. Patty Murray, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan (open lesbian), and Wa State AG Bob Ferguson, all Catholics, are proudly defiant of church teaching on those issues, as are probably 60% of the people in the pews.
Ping, hon!
The trouble with excommunication is that, unless it's "latae sentenciae" (automatic for one of the very few specific offenses singled out as such) the bishop can't, I think, excommunicate anybody without a canonical trial. Substantive due process. And that can be appealed.
So it doesn't have that satisfyingly instant result.
Whereas turning away a person seeking Holy Communion can be on-the-spot, real time.
But I ain't a canon lawyer (thanks be to God.) Anybody who knows more canon law than I do, jump in here and correct me, please.
Most people who don’t want to receive communion don’t even get in line. The very few who don’t want communion, but still get in line for a blessing, are told to cross their arms when they approach the priest instead of extending their hand to receive the host, or opening their mouth to receive it the traditional (pre-Vatican II) way.
OOPs. I meant procedural due process.
Agree.
Blessings and prayers, for this good Priest.
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