Posted on 09/18/2021 9:32:13 PM PDT by ebb tide
“I have never refused the Eucharist to anyone. No one,” said Pope Francis last week. Speaking to the press on his plane after returning from a trip to Hungary and Slovakia, the pope signaled that he wants Communion distributed to Joe Biden and other pro-abortion politicians.
He did acknowledge that “abortion is murder” and, at first, sketched out the Church’s “theology” of Communion: “Communion is a gift, a gift, the presence of Jesus in his Church. It is in the community. This is the theology. Then, those who are not in the community cannot take Communion.… Because they are out of the community, excommunicated, they are ‘excommunicated’ it is called.”
But he ended his answer by declining to back up the bishops who are calling to deny Communion to Catholic public figures who oppose magisterial teaching. As usual, he put a bewildering spin on his permissive position, presenting the application of canon law to these defiant figures as “political” while describing the suspension of canon law as “pastoral.” The truth is the exact reverse. By exempting Biden and company from canon law, the Church under Pope Francis is bowing to the politics of the age and shirking her pastoral duties.
For the pope to describe the few bishops who support the unfashionable position of applying canon law to Biden as “political” is pretty rich, given the relentlessly political character of his pontificate. No one in the Church has behaved more politically than he has.
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As usual, George N. nails it: ‘The pope’s supposed “pastoral” approach is disguised politics, an unwillingness to offend his left-wing political partners.’
Can’t offend the people with the big bucks.....
Heaven forbid,they should scold politicians murdering babies..After all, it’s not the babies who decides to hand the church m millions.....
The ultimate key to Bergoglio was explained by one of his confreres among the Argentinean episcopacy a few weeks ago. Ee cited Juan Peron’s dictum: “To my friends, everything. To my enemies, not even justice.” Bergoglio has never met a political leftist he didn’t love.
“I have never refused the Eucharist to anyone. No one,”
What ever happened to “Whoever drinks of this cup unworthily...” ?
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