[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.

[Jaded]

I'm a divorced Catholic, I've NEVER been denied communion. Since June 1989.

[JohnnyZ]

Well, if priests were telling divorced people to stay away from the sacraments,

Of course many divorced people should stay away from communion -- I don't think anybody said anything about ALL the sacraments.

Some priests, concerned about scandal, asked divorced Catholics to not receive Communion.

Peach didn't even say divorced, for one thing. (She doesn't even remember how old she was (7? 8?)). And of course there are plenty of people who should not go to Communion because they persist in serious sin that is the breakup of their marriage.

"those who are actually responsible for the breakup of the marriage and the failure to be reconciled when possible are indeed guilty of sin and have an obligation to repent and confess their sin before receiving Communion, as would any grave sinner." http://www.ewtn.com/expert/answers/communion_of_divorced_and_remarr.htm

[d-back]

Sinkspur says: Somebody's integrity ought to be impugned (based upon Peach's story that is suspect, to say the least, in its accuracy), so let's impugn the integrity of the whole Catholic Church. Then Sinky adds that "some" priests in the Sixties told women and children that they should not receive Holy Communion--when was it again? ONE WEEK AFTER the man of the house walked out? I'd like to seem something to back up that last howler, which is preposterous.

Don't you have a dog cage to clean at the shelter, Sinky? It's a bit late in the day for me to respond to your curious brand of dissidence, familiar though it is to me and to other Catholics here at Free Republic.