I’ve wondered about the duty of the priest in that situation. I kept concluding they were duty bound to refuse to obey their Bishop. Is that wrong? Should they be refusing to obey and off communion when doing so violates CCC 915?
That’s a good question. Is it akin to the military, i.e, refusing an immoral order? Or is this type of thing covered under the vow of obedience? I dunno.
Read the whole article.
No bishop has any right to say what Wuerl, Dolan, Chaput, O’Malley and most other bishops are saying: They claim to have a “policy” of not denying Communion to pro-aborts.
They have no right to have such a “policy” because giving Communion to pro-aborts is a MORTAL SIN.
As the Vatican clarified years ago, no bishop can legitimately command his priests to disobey Canon 915. http://tinyurl.com/pont915
All but about a dozen bishops in the U.S. are walking around habitually in the state of mortal sin, because they insist on committing this mortal sin.