[d-back]

Just read this fascinating thread, and you're right on, JohnnyZ, Campion and others. Peach's story about being barred from receiving the Eucharist just doesn't sound right, and in fact isn't right as a matter of Church law and policy, but he's gotten all emotional over it (and perhaps understandably so).

Peach, don't get mad at those who are defending the Church; they are doing so because your story impugns the integrity of the Church and yet does not quite ring true in many essential respects. You were young at the time, your memory might not be wholly accurate, and I would urge you to reconsider your anger at the Church. Within the Catholic Church, and the Catholic Church alone, do the full truths of Christianity reside. (Pace, separated Brethren.) Please come home to the Catholic Church and see for yourself.

[sinkspur]

they are doing so because your story impugns the integrity of the Church and yet does not quite ring true in many essential respects.

Well, if priests were telling divorced people to stay away from the sacraments, then somebody's integrity OUGHT to be impugned.

And, what she says is true. Some priests, concerned about scandal, asked divorced Catholics to not receive Communion.

[mabelkitty]

I'm going to stay out of the fire, but my mom's own situation was similar.
Back in the day, she and her family were heavily into the Church big time - school, brother studying to be a priest, father a firefighter, you know the type.
Vatican changed all the rules at some point (you Catholics would know when), and she flipped out. Went all liberal.
Her dad was also a very mean man.
I think she would have been the same way if she were Protestant. One institution (her family) seeps into another one (her religious upbringing) and infects it from a particular POV.