Posted on 10/05/2021 9:17:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A prominent Vatican official has stated that President Joe Biden should not be denied communion over his pro-choice views and public policy stances in support of legal abortion.
While there's been much debate this year in the Roman Catholic Church over whether politicians who support legal access to abortion should be denied communion, the head of the Vatican's Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development told AXIOS on HBO that Biden's policy stance on abortion shouldn't prevent him from receiving the Eucharist.
"The Eucharist should not in any way become a weapon," Cardinal Peter Turkson said in an interview that aired on Sunday. "If you say somebody cannot receive communion, you are basically doing a judgment that you are in a state of sin."
Turkson was asked directly if a judgment of being in a "state of sin" applied to Biden. He said "no."
Biden is the second Catholic to become president of the United States, drawing ire from some within the church who feel his policies and support for codifying abortion rights into federal contradict the Catholic Church's teaching against abortion.
Turkson, a native of Ghana who has led the dicastery since its creation in 2017 and has been a close aide to Pope Francis, explained that communion should be denied only under "extreme cases." As an example, he said it would be acceptable deny communion to a known murderer.
In October 2019, then-Democratic presidential candidate Biden was denied communion while on the campaign trail in South Carolina by a Catholic priest named Father Robert E. Morey.
"Holy Communion signifies we are one with God, each other and the Church," Morey told S.C. Now.
"Our actions should reflect that. Any public figure who advocates for abortion places himself or herself outside of Church teaching."
Since then, other Catholic Church officials in the U.S. have supported denying the sacrament to Biden and any other pro-choice Catholic politicians.
"This whole matter is not a question of politics — it is a question of the moral law," stated Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke in an interview with The Wanderer in January 2020, calling Morey's actions "right and just."
"If one is ignorant of the truth and promotes abortion legislation, that is one thing. But if one is a professed Roman Catholic who has been admonished that he (or she) cannot support legislation against the natural moral law, he (or she) is bound to be obedient to that law."
Others, including Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego, have stated that they object to refusing to administer the sacrament to pro-choice Catholic politicians.
"I do not see how depriving the President or other political leaders of Eucharist based on their public policy stance can be interpreted in our society as anything other than the weaponization of Eucharist," stated McElroy in February, as reported by CRUX Now.
Reports earlier this year indicated that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops was considering a draft document during its meeting in June that would have advised Catholic politicians who support abortion not to receive communion.
A week after voting to approve a "Document on the Meaning of the Eucharist in the Life of the Church," the USCCB clarified that the vote would not lead to a blanket ban on pro-choice politicians receiving communion.
In July, however, a Democrat state lawmaker in New Mexico was denied communion for voting in favor of a bill to codify abortion rights into state law.
Satan endorses murdering babies too. How about giving him communion?
April 17th,2021,in the op-ed page of the NY Times,the black CEO of Planned Parenthood admitted publicly that Sanger and PP had been racist for years....
Now we have a black Catholic Vatican official that is saying it’s okay to be racist and help PP murder black america.....
Interesting times we live in,when lowly Catholic laity has to explain the truth to high up Vatican officials....
No bigger crime than the murder of an unborn child. Nothing in life is more fragile, defenseless and innocent. Therefore, nothing should be considered more egregious and unacceptable to the church.
Screw the Catholic Church and all it’s evil ways.
So that means I can murder someone today, and still expect to be given communion on Sunday.
Francis running it up the flagpole before making an official pronouncement?
The Vatican Official should had clarified that if the priest had a relationship with Joe Biden and he was a regular churchgoer at his parish, then yes, he needs to deny him communion. Everyone else should stay out of the fray. That’s how I interpret it?
But communion for the repentant divorced? - - not so much.
It’s amazing how many non-Catholics are in positions of power in the Vatican.
11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.12 For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? 13But those who are outside God judges. Therefore “put away from yourselves the evil person.”
1 Corinthians 5:11-12
No communion for this idolatry.
The Catholic church has become a communist organization, and killing is an acceptable tool for communism.
Example? Joe Biden. His son is on the communist payroll, he advocates killing babies and fondles eight year old girls. A catholic in good standing. Wonderful.
...now Nanzi Pelosi is another story.
Everyone else should stay out of the fray. That’s how I interpret it?
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So now we witness the fake Pope allied with the fake POTUS in their Communist-inspired attempt to nullify the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
It’s amazing how many non-Catholics are in positions of power in the Vatican.
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Yep, all the way up to and including the Imposter now soiling the Chair of Peter!
He should be excommunicated, but that won’t happen either.
That March 2021 Relief Bill by biden has been paying off.
You can’t be Catholic and endorse abortion at the same time.
It’s even more amazing how many Catholics believe these same non-Catholics have legitimate authority.
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