Among the faithful packing the pews was Vice President Biden along with his wife, Jill. Biden received communion, despite his support for abortion rights.
Unlike his predecessor, Dolan does give communion to Catholics who stray from church dogma on abortion policy, saying he prefers to persuade them in discussion rather deny them the Eucharist.
Ping for later
Ping, to save a seat next to you...I’ll get the popcorn and Milk Duds..:)
Murder is a sin. Abortion is murder Biden condones abortion. Biden needs to be TOLD by his “shepard” that what he believes is sin and he can not receive the body of Christ until he repents. Period! Dolan needs to read his bible more and have coffee with politicians less.
It seems to me to be narcissistic for Dolan to believe that his words would matter to a man like Biden who is so drunk on his own power that he risks his very soul to promote the culture of death while at the same time consuming our Lord for political gain.
However Dolan may believe that his words are the words of Christ and that the Eucharist itself may bring about Biden’s conversion. I cannot believe that Mr. Biden really understands the gravity of receiving the eucharist as a deliberate attempt to deceive America’s catholics into thinking abortion and catholicism can exist happily in one’s own ego. If he really understood how seriously God takes the deliberate deception of God’s people he would be on his knees begging for forgiveness.
I can understand Dolan’s position that there is personal responsibility involved in preparing one’s soul to receive the body of Christ. What is harder to understand is why given canon 915 the American church does not speak out openly about the deception it reproduces among American catholics.
Dolan is a hypocrite and causes great scandal in the Church by giving pro-abortion politicians Holy Communion. The same thing goes for Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the archbishop of Washington DC. If these men are going to mock their Catholic faith by ignoring Canon Law they need to be kicked out of the church. As a faithful Catholic, I am sick and tired of it. They are the ones that give the Catholic Church a bad name.