Posted on 03/25/2014 5:02:53 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
Cardinal Donald Wuerl has been the most outspoken of those bishops who refuse to obey Canon 915, but all of them [Dolan, O'Malley, Chaput, George...] are on record, as he is, as endorsing the commission of MORTAL SINS by their priests and other ministers of Communion. Cardinal Wuerl has even punished those who have obeyed Canon 915.
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Nancy Pelosi to receive Margaret Sanger Award from world’s largest abortion clinic chain:
It is Catholic practice/dogma/law .. whatever.
The scriptures ask, "Can't a man do what he wills with his own?"
You don't need to explain anything.
No Communion for Pelosi and Biden.
Amen to that! Excommunication for promoting Homosexuality and Abortion would be good too.
It would be futile.
What a waste.
Excommunication will never happen.
The article is not about excommunication.
What it points out is that it is a mortal sin to give Communion to pro-abortion people. Yet, most bishops have instructed their priests to give Communion to pro-abortion politicians.
You certainly don’t fit in that category. You have made no argument.
But it should, and you know it.
The purpose of good church discipline is to lead the disobedient to repentance and reconciliation. When the loss of communion doesn't work, excommunication may. After all, we don't need to be PROMOTING HOMOSEXUALITY AND ABORTION IN THE CHURCH DO WE?
Excommunication is not going to happen. The hurdles that must be overcome are too high and too many. Campaigning for it is futile.
Canon 915 is not about excommunication.
Canon 915 merely prohibits an action which is always a mortal sin: giving Communion to notorious grave sinners.
More people need to raise their voices against the bishops who are insisting that their priests COMMIT this mortal sin.
I'm not trying to make an argument, I'm commenting on what I think is a diversion to the fact that Catholics believe their way of belief is correct.
Whether ones gives or receives communion is, in my opinion, immaterial to whether one is going to heaven or not.
Catholic, protestant, Jane or Jew ... it matters not, any reasonably spiritual person must see SOMEthing as an "endtime" and is it really THAT important that an academic conclusion can be reached regarding the state of a practitioner of Satanic ritual ?
In other words, you insist on making off-topic posts.
I REALLY wish I had learned sarcastic comback in 7th grade.
Too late now.
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