[ebb tide]

Citing canon 915 of the Code of Canon Law, Bishop Paprocki ruled last week that state legislators working to pass Illinois’s new abortion bill may not present themselves for communion in his diocese and that priests are expressly forbidden from giving the Eucharist to both the Senate president and the speaker of the House.

Who needs to obey canon law while Francis is pope?

[Bishop_Malachi]

“I think it would be counterproductive to impose sanctions, simply because they don’t change anybody’s minds.”

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He’s right. Sanctions have never, ever, ever -in human history - changed anyone’s mind. /s

[FatherofFive]

We need to get rid of the heretics.

And the fish rots from the head

[ebb tide]

Ping

[Ann Archy]

Dancing on the TRAPDOORS of HELL!

[Yogafist]

So the church is cool with marrying adulterers?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

It is important to deny these politicians, precisely because they hope to use their affiliation with Catholicism to get elected.

The issue is *not* to persuade Moloch worshipers to stop sacrificing children, but to persuade Catholics that support these politicians, perhaps because they are ‘Catholics’, to *stop* supporting them. Don’t vote for them, and tell your friends not to vote for them either.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Canon 915:

Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to holy communion.

The Apostolic Signatura already clarified --- years ago, in fact--- that "are not to be" means "MUST NOT BE" and that this is binding on the person distributing Holy Communion.

But these bishops and cardinals think they are above the law.

Turning an offender away from Communion is not just to be a "persuasive" gesture. It's to prevent Eucharistic Sacrilege, because

1. sacrilege is offensive to Almighty God
2. sacrilege brings guilt upon the minister of the Sacrament (it's a sin for the bishop, priest or deacon)
3. the impenitent sinner himself is to be shielded from incurring multiple mortal sins, AND
4. the Catholic faithful, and the community at large, are to be shielded from the sickening sight of seeing Our Lord openly profaned.

If Cupich had one iota of love for God, for the sinner, for his own priests or his own flock, he would firmly enforce 915. But he either has no love in him, or he just does not give a damn.

[NKP_Vet]

Cupich is the worse excuse for a bishop in the United States. He ignores the CCC at will to appease his democrat donors. If B16 were still pope there is no way in the world this charlatan would have ever became an archbishop. He was made an archbishop on the recommendation of his old friend, the notorious homosexual predator McCarrick.

[NorthMountain]

Yet Another Mitered Hertic.