Posted on 11/21/2016 5:24:13 PM PST by marshmallow
ROME, November 19, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) -- On the heels of a statement by Pope Francis seeming to suggest openness to non-Catholic Christians receiving Holy Communion, the cardinal who heads the Vatican congregation dealing with the sacraments has said that there are preconditions for the reception of Holy Communion and when those conditions are not met, and the situation is publicly known, ministers of the sacrament “have no right to give him communion.”
Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, added, speaking of priests: “If they do so, their sin will be more grave before the Lord. It would be unequivocally a premeditated complicity and profanation of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Jesus.”
The statements from Cardinal Sarah come from a forthcoming article in the French Catholic magazine L’Homme Nouveau. Vatican specialist Sandro Magister has published an excerpt in advance.
“The entire Church has always firmly held that one may not receive communion with the knowledge of being in a state of mortal sin, a principle recalled as definitive by John Paul II in his 2003 encyclical ‘Ecclesia de Eucharistia,’” said the prefect. “Not even a pope can dispense from such a divine law.”
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Love this guy. I got his book, “God or Nothing.” Straight talk, no ecclesiastical bafflegab.
Where it seems the lights are going out on the Church there flares a bright candle here and there.
Only about 10 American Bishops do not give communion to pro-aborts. This means that all but 10 American Bishops are on the side of Bergoglio in his attack on marriage, the Eucharist, Penance, and the moral law.
If you substitute “Divine Word” for “Divine Law,” you got yourself a Reformation. Better late 500 years than never......
God bless Cardinal Sarah.
Preconditions post-Vatican II or pre-Vatican II? Because this man needs to wake up. Post Vatican II non-Catholics have already been allowed to receive communion. Before Vatican II (and the codification of it in the 1983 JPII Code of Canon Law), NON-CATHOLICS WERE FORBIDDEN TO RECEIVE COMMUNION UNLESS THEY CONVERTED TO THE CATHOLIC FAITH FIRST.
Nowhere will you see this requirement in JPII's Code of Canon Law. So, anyone who takes issue with Francis' latest desire to allow non-Catholics to receive communion need to stop blaming things on him. This has been in the works for decades now with the new religion of Ecumenism.
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