What we have here is a FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE.
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I thought Kennedy declined to receive communion?
The democrat politicians and other pro-abortionists have all repeatedly stated their core belief that humans determine their own morality as a matter of private choice-they have been on the wrong side of Church teaching for a long long long time and have influenced tens of millions of others to their (flawed?) philosophy
“he (Guiliani) goes to church only occasionally, usually for holidays or funerals.”
Same thing if you’re Rudy.
NEW YORK (AP) — Rudy Giuliani should not have received Holy Communion during the pope’s visit because the former presidential candidate supports abortion rights, New York Cardinal Edward Egan said Monday.
Egan says he had “an understanding” with Giuliani that he is not to receive the Eucharist. The Catholic Church teaches “that abortion is a grave offense against the will of God,” Egan said.
The cardinal said Monday that Giuliani broke that understanding when he received the Eucharist during Pope Benedict XVI’s visit earlier this month. He received Communion during the April 19 service from one of the many clergymen who offered the sacrament.
Egan says he will be seeking a meeting with Giuliani “to insist that he abide by our understanding.”
I wonder when Pelosi, Kerry, Kennedy and Dodd et al made their last trip into a confessional?
A long time ago, I’d wager.
I have Christian friends, some Catholic, who see no conflict between being pro-choice and being Christian(or taking communion if they’re Catholic). They tell me, “I abhor abortion, but others might need it.” This is like saying “I’m against armed robbery, but if others want to do it, that’s fine with me.”
I tell them slavery used to be legal in America years ago, but slavery is always wrong...so is abortion.
Relativism seems to rule the day, and more’s the pity.
The spirit of the age never understands a man like the pope. People bend and twist, trying to make Christianity fit their own morality.
The Pope is not some “mean old man” trying to keep people from sharing communion. He is trying to protect them.
“Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. But a man must examine himself, and in so doing he is to eat of the bread and drink of the cup.”
Either his words mean something, or they don't.
It sure looks like they don't, and everybody knows it.
I Corinthians 27 Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord. 28 A man ought to examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup. 29 For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body of the Lord eats and drinks judgment on himself. 30 That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.
The truth is that the Bible says that those who receive communion unworthily receive it to their harm.
Since your Pope declared them unworthy and they received anyway, then I wouldn't want to be in their shoes.
The Pope's insistence that they not receive communion is NOT for their harm, but it is for their protection.
Not believing in spiritual things, these politicians have engaged in their own injury.
This kind of thing is going to continue unless swift discipline is carried out. A soft rebuke isn't going to cut it.