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German Bishop Claims Catholic Church Could Start Giving Communion to Some Protestants Imminently
LifeSite News ^ | 1/9/17 | Jan Bentz

Posted on 01/10/2017 7:35:43 PM PST by marshmallow

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1 posted on 01/10/2017 7:35:43 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Is the Pope Catholic?


2 posted on 01/10/2017 7:39:08 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (President Trump is coming, and the rule of law is coming with him.)
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To: marshmallow
Pssst. Don't tell anyone, but along the Camino de Santiago, churches regularly give communion to non-catholics, actually they allow some Anglican priest to participate in the Mass. Actually, because of the financial importance and religious opportunity for conversion, this has been going on for a long, long, long time.
3 posted on 01/10/2017 7:39:58 PM PST by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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To: Robert357

In my Catholic high school (I’m not Catholic) a long time ago, a Methodist student in our school was taking communion with the blessing of the Catholic fathers and brothers. The Roman Catholic Church has many sub-groups.


4 posted on 01/10/2017 7:45:44 PM PST by WKTimpco
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To: marshmallow

Why would any protestant want Catholic communion?

And vice versa?

You cant be both. Pick the denomination you believe to be the most faithful.


5 posted on 01/10/2017 7:46:22 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Robert357
Actually, because of the financial importance and religious opportunity for conversion, this has been going on for a long, long, long time.

Why would any non-catholic consider converting to Catholicism if they're already being given (sacrilegiously) the Blessed Sacrament in their present state?

6 posted on 01/10/2017 8:03:02 PM PST by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

No.


7 posted on 01/10/2017 8:24:09 PM PST by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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To: WKTimpco

They’re called “sinners.” In extreme cases, “heretics.”


8 posted on 01/10/2017 8:25:07 PM PST by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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To: ebb tide

The people giving Communion and the people taking it are muddleheads.

I know a man who believes completely in the entire Catholic Faith, but won’t become a Catholic because the Church does not practice inter-communion. (He’s a Methodist.)

I didn’t argue with him, but it’s totally baffling to me where he gets this CERTAINTY that the Church should practice inter-communion. I mean, WHERE does this knowledge he thinks he has come from? How could the Church be right about everything else, and wrong about this single thing?


9 posted on 01/10/2017 8:28:43 PM PST by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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To: Arthur McGowan

The church allows people who support baby killing and funding baby killing to receive communion. What’s a few million protestants here and there?


10 posted on 01/10/2017 8:31:19 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: Secret Agent Man
Why would any protestant want Catholic communion?
And vice versa?
You cant be both. Pick the denomination you believe to be the most faithful.

AMEN.

11 posted on 01/10/2017 8:56:33 PM PST by cloudmountain
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To: morphing libertarian

Check this out.

http://catholiccitizens.org/views/69458/canon-fire/


12 posted on 01/10/2017 10:05:50 PM PST by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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**Imminently**

Hopefully never.


13 posted on 01/10/2017 10:09:04 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: marshmallow

I am not Catholic and would not accept communion in a Catholic Church (not that I object, but I should not violate their standards). If an illegitimate bishop or even an illegitimate Pope said otherwise, I would ignore them.


14 posted on 01/11/2017 2:46:43 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Secret Agent Man
"Why would any protestant want Catholic communion?"

Because in MY church 37 angels can dance on the head of a pin, and in your church, only 23 can.

15 posted on 01/11/2017 4:27:03 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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To: norwaypinesavage

Our angels spend more time in the gym.


16 posted on 01/11/2017 4:33:33 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: ebb tide
“..Why would any non-catholic consider converting to Catholicism if they're already being given (sacrilegiously) the Blessed Sacrament in their present state?...”

Maybe because they know that the pageantry and love they feel in a Spanish Catholic pilgrimage church may not be available to them when they return home.

17 posted on 01/11/2017 2:28:53 PM PST by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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To: Robert357

Then why don’t they just convert?


18 posted on 01/11/2017 2:35:25 PM PST by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome)
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To: ebb tide
I am sorry, my head is spinning.

“....Why would any non-catholic consider converting....”

“....Then why don't they just convert?....”

The question you should be asking is why is the Catholic Church in some areas like along the Camino de Santiago so “accommodating” to pilgrims heading to the Cathedral of St James.

What I pointed out is in that location it has more to do with history and economics (direct & indirect) as well as trying to convert some of the pilgrims.

Along the Camino there are lots of non-catholic hikers. I have met Buddhists, Muslims, Jews, and non-believers. The church invited all into the Cathedral to pray and see majesty of the church. If you look at the conditions for being granted a Compostella, being Catholic has nothing to do with it. They ask if your journey was religious in nature, not necessarily that you were Catholic.

The point is that there are place where the Church reaches out to non-Catholics.

19 posted on 01/11/2017 3:39:55 PM PST by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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To: Robert357
The point is that there are place where the Church reaches out to non-Catholics.

The Church has always reached out to non-Catholics and encouraged them to join the one, true Church. But it has never condoned giving Holy Communion, sacrilegiously, to non-Catholics.

20 posted on 01/11/2017 3:46:28 PM PST by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome)
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