[DoodleBob]

“I think he’s trying to follow what Francis is doing,” said Dr. Marianne Benkert Sipe, a psychiatrist and former nun who has studied church social and political movements. “He’s trying to make the church a bigger tent.”

McElroy was also returning to themes he explored in his 1993 biography of John Courtney Murray, “The Search for an American Public Theology.” A Jesuit priest, Murray wrote extensively on relations between church and state, especially in societies with numerous religious traditions.

Can communion be denied to Bp. McElroy?

[ebb tide]

Can communion be denied to Bp. McElroy?

Rather, the question should be, "Should Holy Communion be be denied to Jorge's Boy Elroy?

[edwinland]

“Then he will say to those on the Left, ‘Depart from me, ... For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’

“They also will answer, ‘Lord, when you were hungry and thirsty and a stranger and sick we were busy protesting the U.S. withdrawal from the the Paris Climate Accords that the U.S. never signed and the Europeans never followed but it’s a start and then the orange man and and ...’

“He will reply, ‘Truly I say unto you: what are you talking about???’

[Bayard]

Impossible. Since he is a validly ordained Bishop. He can even be excommunicated from the Church, but regardless he still has the authority to say Mass and can confect the Eucharist.

That will be on his soul however.