Archbishop Chaput is among those bishops who refuse to obey Canon 915. Like the rest of them, he pretends that Denial of Holy Communion is a “penalty.” That is, he pretends that he has the authority to decide whether or not to deny Communion to notorious grave sinners.
But Canon 915 forbids giving Communion to notorious grave sinners BECAUSE doing so is ALWAYS SINFUL. If Canon 915 did not exist, giving Communion to notorious grave sinners would always be sinful, because to do so is always: 1) to cause grave scandal; 2) to collaborate deliberately in a sacrilegious act.
No bishop has the authority to command or to pressure his priests to commit these mortal sins, but Archbishop Chaput does so, by having a “policy” of not obeying Canon 915.
It is mortally sinful to pressure another person to commit a mortal sin. That means that Archbishop Chaput, like Cardinals Wuerl, Dolan, O’Malley, and many others, is walking around habitually in the state of mortal sin!
These bishops—the majority of those in the U.S. and around the world—need to repent. And the ONLY sign of repentance will be when they deny Communion to Nancy Pelosi and all other publicly pro-abortion “Catholics.”
This would all be fine if only Benedict XVI had made this a clear obligation to become a definitive interpretation of Canon 915, or for that matter current Cardinal Raymond Burke. This should also apply to active gays and lesbians.