Posted on 05/24/2017 4:29:42 PM PDT by monkapotamus
Melania says she'll pray every day for hospitalized children following Papal meeting – as she reveals she will be the first Catholic to live in the White House since the Kennedys
When Melania Trump recited The Lord's Prayer before a Melbourne, Florida presidential rally in February, the Internet went hog wild.
Now we know one reason why the first lady began with 'Let us pray' and 'Our Father who art in heaven' when she introduced the president that evening: She's a practicing Roman Catholic.
Her spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham confirmed that to DailyMail.com on Wednesday, hours after Pope Francis blessed a rosary for her at the Vatican.
The last Catholics to live in the White House were John F. Kennedy and his wife Jackie. Melania and her son Barron will move to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue over the summer.
Mrs. Trump did more than just show up for a Papal audience.
She spent time in prayer at the Vatican-affiliated Bambin Gesù (Baby Jesus) Hospital, and laid flowers at the feet of a statue of the Madonna.
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LOL
And non-Catholics do not understand annulments, either
Did you see the video of the Pope blessing her new Rosary? An Episcopalian would not do that.
BTTT!
I doubt that their minds were occupied with thoughts of themselves.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4539392/Melania-Catholic-White-House-Kennedy.html
This article has a statement that she never received her First Communion.
Yes she can take communion!
You are wrong!
Always at least a few apples trying to rot the rest of the barrel.....
You’d better check again, unless Donald received an annulment from his two previous marriages, she is living with a man married to another woman, in the Catholic view.
They really make FR a trial these days. Full of haters and jealous chicks.
If his first two marriages were not Catholic sacramental marriages, then there is nothing to annul. The Catholic Church does not recognize civil (law) marriages. His marriage to Melania took place in an Episcopal church, so it is not a Catholic sacramental marriage. Salvation’s earlier reply claims that Melania never received First Communion. If true, that would seem to answer the question. There is too little information to determine with certainty if Melania can receive Holy Communion.
I was taught that Epicopainianism is just a hop and a skip from Catholicism, except that Episcopalianism has more green haired lesbian ministers, is all.
Wish I could argue with that, but you’re right on target.
Some of them don’t even realize what Debbie Downers they are being.
It just flows on out by reflex.
:)
I have personal experience with an annulment. It doesn’t make any difference whether the previous ones were in a Catholic church or not in a church at all. I was born into a Baptist family, had a just out of college marriage that was a disaster, had to get an annulment, take RCIA, have first communion, get confirmed, and have a marriage ceremony in a Catholic Church. There is a little different process if a Catholic is married outside of a Catholic Church. In that case, the marriage isn’t recognized at all by the Church and it is just an administrative matter, no need to prove invalidity for an annulment. That is where people get confused. Even a civil marriage between two non-Catholics is assumed valid unless proven otherwise by the Tribunal.
Therefore, even if she was confirmed, she can’t receive, unless DJT was able to get the previous ones declared null. At the time my wife and I were married, we were in our 30’s, went ahead and got married, got the annulment (which was cut and dried in my case) and had a convalidation of our vows. My wife could not receive communion till we did that. We don’t know if DJT had anything sent before a marriage tribunal, which is the only thing we would need information on.
That said, I’m impressed by her actions, and she seems to have an authentic faith and reverence that is lacking in a lot of people.
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