Posted on 06/08/2021 9:07:33 PM PDT by ebb tide
June 8, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) –President Joe Biden will make his first international trip to Europe for a number of political liaisons starting June 10, according to the White House, and Vatican sources hinted that he may stop in Rome to meet with Pope Francis on June 15.
The meeting would come just one day before American bishops are set to debate the censure of openly pro-abortion politicians like Biden who claim to be Catholic, including the possibility of being denied Holy Communion.
Part of the discussion at the assembly will focus on the approval of a document on “Eucharistic coherence,” Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles, who also serves as the president of the USCCB, confirmed in a May 22 letter.
The letter outlines the scope of the proposed teaching document as “how best to help people to understand the beauty and mystery of the Eucharist as the center of their Christian lives,” Gomez wrote.
More specifically, the document proposes to address the worthiness of receiving Holy Communion for Catholics in public office. Such politicians, if they openly dissent from Catholic teaching in a grave matter like abortion would face strict ecclesiastical penalties, including exclusion from the reception of Holy Communion, in line with the Catholic Code of Canon Law.
The approval of the document during the assembly would prompt the USCCB’s doctrine committee to develop a formal text. “From there, the Conference’s usual process of consultation, modification, and amendment will take place as the document is presented for consideration at a future Plenary Assembly,” Gomez’s May 22 letter laid out.
Canon 915 states that Catholics who are “obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to holy communion.” According to a 2004 memo issued to the U.S. bishops by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith who is now Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, a Catholic politician who is “consistently campaigning and voting for permissive abortion and euthanasia laws” manifests “formal cooperation” with grave sin and must be “denied” the Eucharist.
Gomez explained in his letter that “In light of recent surveys, it is clear that there is a lack of understanding among many Catholics about the nature and meaning of the Eucharist. This teaching document will address the fundamental doctrines concerning the Eucharist that the Church, as a whole, needs to retrieve and revive.”
A section addressing Eucharistic reception, titled “Eucharistic consistency,” will purportedly tackle “the nature of eucharistic communion and the problem of serious sin.” The May 22 letter to the bishops noted that “a person should examine himself, and so eat the bread and drink the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself (1 Cor 11:28-29).”
Opposing any debate on the exclusion of Catholics like Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from receiving the Eucharist are Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago, Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington, D.C., and 65 other prelates within the American hierarchy who have attempted to stall proceedings, going so far as to sign a letter urging their brother bishops to disregard any notion of publicly correcting anti-life, anti-family Catholic politicians.
Gomez, however, has insisted that the proposal receives a full discussion, as originally planned.
These bishops stand in the way of prohibiting Communion for Biden, pro-abortion politicians
Ping
Frankie wants a personal copy of Paycheck Hunter’s hard drive...
Pope Francis will approve communion for faithless politicians.
Two Peas in a Pod.
Maybe the fake deep state puppet plant Francine will dub the deep state puppet plants Harry/Biden - honorary poppy!
Thing 1 and Thing 2.
Dumb and Dumber.
Both are practicing for a part in the NWO Tribulation.
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If you are not in the state of grace you may not receive Holy Communion period! that means if you have committed a MORTAL sin, you may not receive unless you have received forgiveness via the Sacrament of Confession. Promised not to sin again and to avoid the near occasion’s of sin.
So unless you are changing God’s rules, NO COMMUNION!
Dumb and dumber.
No time for the Ukrainians, though. Haha.
Bergoglio is so evil - and so political.
This is meant to put pressure on the US bishops at their upcoming meeting to either not vote on or not approve any motion to reaffirm Church teaching and deny Communion to public deniers of Church moral teaching.
A crucible for the US bishops, pray the act for life.
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