[chiefqc]

“Hey look at me, I’m over here. See how important I deserve to be, look over here it’s me the important looking guy”.

[Pyro7480]

How are you so sure Burke is doing this to attract attention to himself?

[A.A. Cunningham]

“Hey look at me, I’m over here. See how important I deserve to be, look over here it’s me the important looking guy”.

With acumen like yours, you should be sitting on the couch between those two rocket scientists Behar and Goldberg.

"Burke, the archbishop of St. Louis, was asked"

[Mrs. Don-o]

Chiefqc, I don't think you caught the context here. Burke didn't come out, set up a microphone, and call the Associated Press. He was called by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and asked this question. It was the press saying, "Hey, Bishop! Let's you 'n' him fight!"

In short, Burke is just answering honestly, according to canon law. In his memorandum entitled ‘Worthiness to Receive Holy Communion – General Principles,’ Pope B16 (when he was Cardinal Ratzinger) said without ambiguity:

“The minister of Holy Communion must refuse to distribute it [Holy Communion] when warning and counsel given to the manifest sinner have not had their effect.”

Neither Burke nor Benedict invented this as some kind of political novelty. It's the unremarkable enforcement of ecclesiastical law, which you can see quoted verbatim at post#7.

The only "remarkable" thing is how so few bishops bother to heed the law. That's been the shame and the bane of the Church for decades: long on doctrine, short on discipline.

[MEGoody]

“Hey look at me, I’m over here. See how important I deserve to be, look over here it’s me the important looking guy”.

LOL Good immitation of Rudy. I can just see him saying that, waving his arms around, dressed in drag.