Posted on 07/20/2021 3:57:58 PM PDT by CedarDave
A dispute within the Catholic Church over whether politicians who support abortion rights should be allowed to receive the sacrament of Communion is hitting close to home.
State Sen. Joe Cervantes, a Las Cruces Democrat, tweeted Saturday morning he was denied Communion on Friday “based on [his] political office.”
In his tweet, Cervantes wrote he was denied Communion, or the Eucharist, “by the Catholic bishop here in Las Cruces,” apparently referring to Peter Baldacchino, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces.
“My new parish priest has indicated he will do the same after the last [priest] was run off,” Cervantes wrote in a tweet that has generated more than 1,000 responses. “Please pray for church authorities as Catholicism transitions under Pope Francis.”
“Since voting to eliminate an unconstitutional and never used New Mexico law, which would imprison women for abortion, some new clergy have decided I am unwelcome at their communion,” said Cervantes, referring to a vote during the 60-day legislative session earlier this year to repeal a half-century-old law that criminalized abortion in New Mexico.
Chris Velasquez, a spokesman for the diocese, said Baldacchino was unavailable for comment. But the diocese issued a statement in response to Cervantes’ tweet.
“The New Mexico Legislature recently passed some of the most extreme pro-abortion legislation in the country,” the diocese wrote. “Prior to passage of the legislation, both Bishop Baldacchino and Senator Cervantes’ pastor reached out to him multiple times in order to convey to him the teaching of the Catholic Church. Senator Cervantes never answered or responded to diocesan communications. Finally, in a personal letter to Senator Cervantes, his pastor advised him that a vote in favor of this particular Senate bill would constitute a grave moral evil and that he should not present himself for Communion.”
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The dude could just go to mass and not go up for communion. The Bishop and priests need to make it clear that you can take part in communion if you support abortion.
Can or cannot?
Smells like BS
Just kidding. Made the top part up. I have yet to see a SINGLE Baptist pastor, even the "most conservative" ones, deny communion to a RAT politician who self-identies as "Baptist"
But gosh darn, "the Catholics" are just too cowardly on this issue.
Getting to be quite a few of them. You could start a file. I can ping you every time my BS meter goes off (which some days would be near constant).
An earlier article noted he voted for doctor assisted suicide and removing religious protections for health care workers. In other words they have to assist in abortions.
“Please pray for church authorities as Catholicism transitions under Pope Francis.”
It’s accepted as fact among the “reset” folks that Francis will change the Church to fit the modern society and morality. Pope basically said so himself, and this is apparent to the secular ptb.
The dude could just go to mass and not go up for communion. The Bishop and priests need to make it clear that you can take part in communion if you support abortion.
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He can just go to a non-denominational church, and if he’s lucky the pastor will host a pretend communion service. (although many churches are set up like a rock concert and not an altar to be seen).
The Democrat should either honor Catholic tenants or go to a different church.
Odds are that a Lutheran church will play communion with grape juice and some bread.
Thank God and God bless this bishop.
I get what you’re saying, but it’s like comparing apples to oranges.
Generally speaking, Baptist churches are either Bible-believing and conservative, or Bible-rejecting and liberal, and the two are entirely separate from each other in governance. The liberal ones tend to be almost empty, but that’s the kind of Baptist church that an abortion-supporting politician is most likely to attend. If they even try a Bible-believing church, they’d hate everything about it, wouldn’t accept the church’s statement of its beliefs to become a member, and wouldn’t be accepted by the people of the church.
On the Lord’s Supper, believers are warned about partaking of it in an unworthy manner, as Scripture says. Many offenses likely are relatively private matters, but in the case of a politician supporting abortion, I would think that such a person, if he or she even chose to attend an evangelical church in the first place, would simply be confronted by the pastor or elders within a short time of their arrival (within weeks).
This is a recent opinion piece slandering the Southern Baptist Convention for the efforts it’s made in recent decades to hold to the Bible:
Disagree entirely. Many of these Marxist black Democrat congressmen come from historically black Baptist churches, which are very politically liberal, and filled to the brim with people on Sundays. Blacks tend to be VERY active churchgoers, this has been confirmed in numerous studies. The most prominent example now is "Rev" Raphael Warnock of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia.
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