German Catholics to exclude church tax dodgers

The Local (Germany) ^ | 21 Sep 12 10:24 CET

[stfassisi]

Three points:

Thanks, those are good points.

I'm sure we will see more details in coming days

[stfassisi]

Dear Vlad,

No need to be defensive. I did not assume anything.

[vladimir998]

Defensive? You didn’t assume anything?

You wrote this:

“Show me Catholic dogma that says if someone is poor and incapable of paying a tax they will be denied Communion?”

aren’t you assuming that I said that Catholic dogma says if someone is poor and incapable of paying a tax they will be denied Communion?

Come on, now.

[stfassisi]

aren’t you assuming that I said that Catholic dogma says if someone is poor and incapable of paying a tax they will be denied Communion?

No , because you and I both know there is not dogma that says this

I realize other people read these threads, so it's not a bad thing to bring forth questions we know the answer to amongst Catholic's who know their faith so that others can see.

[kearnyirish2]

Everybody knows how much worse the killing would have been if the Church supported Nazism; I’m sure most Catholics of the time knew how much worse Communism was (The examples of Spain and Ukraine were there for all to see), and simply watched 2 devils fight it out hoping to come through it alive.

[AnalogReigns]

The “Church Tax” is a TITHE, or like an income tax. If you don’t have an income, you don’t pay the tax....or tithe.

Denying someone communion for removing himself from the Church tax rolls means they DID have an income: i.e. it won’t apply to indigent people without income enough to pay taxes (or a tithe).

[A.A. Cunningham]

You no doubt can point us to the blanket excommunication of the Nazis by any protestant church in Germany coinciding to that issued by the Catholic Bishops in February 1931.

Also, when von Stauffenberg sought permission from his Bishop to assassinate Hitler it was a Catholic he spoke with, Cardinal Peysing, not a protestant.

[stfassisi]

Denying someone communion for removing himself from the Church tax rolls means they DID have an income: i.e. it won’t apply to indigent people without income enough to pay taxes (or a tithe).

I agree. My point was to make sure that others would not jump in and call the Church an elitist sort of club with no compassion for the poor. The Catholic Church does more for the poor far beyond any country in the world