Posted on 06/12/2022 6:27:56 PM PDT by marshmallow
Denver Newsroom, Jun 7, 2022 / 15:17 pm
Catholic lawmakers in Colorado who voted for an extreme abortion bill that stripped all rights from the unborn child should refrain from receiving Holy Communion, the state’s four Catholic bishops have said in a letter.
Voting for the Reproductive Health and Equity Act (RHEA) was “participating in a gravely sinful action because it facilitates the killing of innocent unborn babies,” said a letter to lawmakers from the state’s Catholic bishops.
Catholic politicians who have voted for the legislation “have very likely placed themselves outside of the communion of the Church,” said the letter, signed by Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila of Denver, Bishop Stephen J. Berg of Pueblo, Bishop James Golka of Colorado Springs, and Auxiliary Bishop Jorge H. Rodriguez.
Religion News Service published the first report about the letter. The full text of the letter is available here.
The bill treats pre-born babies as “worth less than those who have the gift of being born,” the bishops said.
The law explicitly excludes any rights to unborn children, saying “(a) fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus does not have independent or derivative rights under the laws of the state.”
It allows abortion up until birth for any reason. Any pregnant individuals have “a fundamental right to continue the pregnancy and give birth or to have an abortion.”
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Colorado ping.
BTTT for Colorado’s Bishops!
Nice to see. Hopefully we’ll see more.
Strange the church just woke up on this topic.
No one should be taking communion. Its unbiblical. Jesus only had to die once. Not over and over
It always takes a point man among Bishops to get at this. And it takes a Bishop to do it.
Catholics don’t believe in a repeated sacrifice. So I don’t think that objection is correct.
Perhaps I’m just misunderstanding you. If you say Catholics don’t believe in “repeated sacrifice”, what then is the Holy Mass if it is not a re-creation of Christ’s sacrifice on Calvary?
For a Catholic source on this
1367 The sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are one single sacrifice: “The victim is one and the same: the same now offers through the ministry of priests, who then offered himself on the cross; only the manner of offering is different.” “And since in this divine sacrifice which is celebrated in the Mass, the same Christ who offered himself once in a bloody manner on the altar of the cross is contained and offered in an unbloody manner … this sacrifice is truly propitiatory.”
CATHOLIC CHURCH, Catechism of the Catholic Church (Washington, DC 2nd Ed.2000) 344.
You to be attempting. To distinguish the term “re-presentation” from the term “re-creation” in some way that I don’t understand? Regardless, what we are witnessing is truly Jesus Christ being sacrificed on the cross, once again. Indeed, this sacrifice is “repeated” over and over again, each and every time we witness the Holy sacrifice of the Mass.
I believe you are misreading the source you site. When they use the phrase “single sacrifice” I am confident they’ve used this phrase with the intention of teaching that the sacrifice of Jesus on Calvary is the same (although unbloody) as what we witness in the Mass.
What is difficult to understand? They both describe different actions. In the sacrifice of the Mass the same sacrifice on Calvary is a perpetuation of the same sacrifice, whereas a "creation" connotes some "new sacrifice", which isn't correct Catholic teaching. There are not multiple sacrifices.
When they use the phrase “single sacrifice” I am confident they’ve used this phrase with the intention of teaching that the sacrifice of Jesus on Calvary is the same (although unbloody) as what we witness in the Mass.
No, I'm correct in that the Catholics believe in a singular sacrifice on the Cross, not multiple. The event is perpetuated by representation in the Eucharist.
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