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To: piusv

permitting a Lutheran to receive communion is one thing (and we will discuss, for sure, here) but
permitting a Pelosi (pushing millions of our tax dollars to the baby-killing factories called ‘planned parenthood’) is yet another

Canon Law exists to deny communion to the Pelosis of the world.

Let the Church do that FIRST.


8 posted on 01/22/2016 2:59:17 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
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To: faithhopecharity

No, let the Church do what it has always done: not allow non-Catholics AND Catholics not in a state of grace to receive communion.


9 posted on 01/22/2016 3:00:55 PM PST by piusv (The Spirit of Christ hasn't refrained from using separated churches as means of salvation:VII heresy)
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To: faithhopecharity; piusv

I was raised by two conservative, devout Lutherans. I have personally never adopted the anti-Catholic position formerly common therein; I have equally never adopted the modern ecumenical position.
As a professional chorister, I have often performed in cathedrals. I have sometimes been offered the Eucharist (at “liberal” - read communistic - Catholic Churches); I have always refused, usually the only one to do so. I have done so not only because I am not a Catholic, and do not accept all Catholic doctrines; I have done so because it is inherently disrespectful to Canon Law to do so, regardless of the local church’s failure to respect its own law.
My best friend is a devout Catholic woman. Obviously, we disagree on certain things. Speaking as a non-Catholic, I will say the Number One - and I emphasize, Number One! - problem I have with an ecclesiastical organization that has historically advocated a hierarchical structure over the dangers of an independent congregational structure is this: This supremely hierarchical church, which proclaims that its clergy and laity do as they are told, allows Nancy Pelosi, in my considered opinion an impenitent de facto murderer, to continue to take the Eucharist.
(Full disclosure: I am no longer a member of the Lutheran church. I have served on staff in two congregations of different denominations, and have seen up close and personal the heresy and decadence that has infested the so-called mainlines [largely thanks to Fuller Theological Seminary and Liberation Theology].
After years of such service, I balked at attending the seminary for which I was being groomed. I am now an independent ordained minister.)


27 posted on 01/22/2016 4:32:05 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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