Posted on 06/18/2021 8:00:46 PM PDT by ebb tide
As I’ve been saying ever since the letter trying to squash the forming of a document on “Eucharistic Coherence”, the loud crowd is in the minority. There is no “split down the middle.” Let’s look at the vote on drafting that document: 168 yea, 55 nay, and 6 abstentions. The club that wants to give Communion to whoever walks up to receive didn’t even retain their supposed 67! I don’t know why a bigger deal hasn’t been made about that, but more than one person who supposedly signed said they didn’t at all. Cardinals Cupich and Gregory have some ‘splaining to do!
So back to the numbers. The nays are not even 25% of all the USCCB bishops. For all their whining over unity, the minority is really the problem. Maybe they need to get on board instead of lying on the tracks trying to stop the train.
On top of that, today I find that 60 “Catholic” Democrats issued a “Statement of Principles.” More like a statement of lack of principles! https://twitter.com/CatSzeltner/status/1405960359081566209 The disturbing thing is that this was totally orchestrated. Five seconds after the bishops vote to draft a document clarifying Catholic teaching on the Eucharist and they were totally ready to go with this screed. This is nothing more than a Fr. Martin/Cardinal Cupich media stunt. And yes, I’m guessing, but with good reason, they are behind it. They’ve been spinning for days, suggesting everything from those wanting to produce the document are somehow in schism, to them ignoring the CDF, to them singling out politicians. The Democrats had the liberal Catholic bishops’ talking points down pat. Sadly, they are all LIES. Yes, I totally believe that. They have moved on to plain old deception. This never was about one issue and their working outline didn’t focus ONLY on politicians as Cupich tried to suggest yesterday. Heck, even Martin, SJ, is tanking that theory because he’s pointing out the document bars openly active homosexuals from receiving. Hey, ethical media, try reading the outline for the document before editorializing: https://www.scribd.com/document/509294305/Pillar-Media-USCCB-Memo-on-Eucharistic-coherence-5-22-2021 The darlings at America Mag and National catholic Register are leading you all by the nose with their misrepresentations. Grow up and do your job.
Since I’ll probably have to do their job for them, though: “The document will include theological foundation for the Church’s discipline concerning the reception of Holy Communion and a special call for those Catholics who are cultural, political, or parochial leaders to witness to the faith.” Note, it’s not limited to politicians. It’s also not a new discipline created by the USCCB but based on the discipline and law already in place, and nowhere in the document does it seek to usurp the authority of an individual bishop over his diocese. There’s much more to it, but this is the heart of what’s becoming routine lies.
One last thing on the spinners trying to say that the USCCB is somehow going against “the Vatican”, …Does anyone remember what happened last January when Archbishop Gomez wanted to issue a statement on Biden? An embargo was placed on that statement. https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/20/pope-francis-muzzles-american-catholic-bishops-preaching-against-bidens-anti-catholic-agenda/ If the Vatican wanted to stop the USCCB from producing this document, they could have chosen to do so. Instead, Ladaria issued “guidelines” which were, despite hissy fits and spin from James Martin, SJ, and Cardinal Cupich, were indeed taken into account. After all the running off to Rome by Cardinals Cupich and Tobin to stop discussion of a document on the Eucharist, all they got from “the Vatican” were guidelines which kind of matched what was already said by most of the bishops crafting the document. It was comical.
Hopefully “the Vatican” (I only put that in scare quotes because it’s the ominous sounding persona Martin and Cupich like to use without defining) has realized that those trying to stop this document from ever seeing the light of day probably don’t have much belief in the Real Presence themselves, and that they are in a small minority. They are not representative of Catholicism. They’re just loud, whiny children and “the Vatican” might finally be annoyed with Cupich, et. al., throwing temper tantrums every five minutes and demanding dad to fix it.
Ping
60 Catholic Democrats drafted a statement of apostasy IMO.
And 55 Bergoglio/Biden bishops agree with those democrats.
So 60 congress critters have declared themselves apostates as supporters of abortion, and defied their bishops and the magisterium.
Ebb, is this latae sent. excom?
If they vote for funding abortion here or abroad, yes.
Prayers up for Holy Mother Church.
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