The Church has always professed this fact and Catholics who espouse abortion as an option are not observing a central tenet of our faith - and for politicians - or anyone - who profess to be Catholics yet promote abortion are in a state grave sin and cause scandal to the Catholic faith.
Excommunication is a last resort, yet Ms Pelosi has had more than enough chances to denounce abortion and return to her faith.
And no, "Catholics" who back abortion are not actually Catholics.
Thank you. I think I under the prohibition part (what so would call a “negative mitzvah” — the “thou SHALL NOT”.
The Roman Catholic denomination teaching on abortion is extremely similar to the Jewish teaching on abortion — forbidden unless the pregnancy will cause the death of the woman and child (e.g., an ectopic pregnancy).
So, anyway, I understand and agree there.
It’s the religious ceremony I do not understand.
A link would be great. I know I am probably asking a big question from a complete lack of base knowledge and don’t want to impose. I would do it myself but know so little I don’t know how to search for it.
A search for “communion” got me to a movie about aliens.
Thank you for the explanation. Would she be buried as a Catholic, if she were to die in this state, I wonder?
To explain things more succinctly: it is a central teaching of the Roman Catholic faith that abortion is the murder of a human being, that being who was formed at the moment of the union of the sperm and the egg.
The Church has always professed this fact and Catholics who espouse abortion as an option are not observing a central tenet of our faith - and for politicians - or anyone - who profess to be Catholics yet promote abortion are in a state grave sin and cause scandal to the Catholic faith.
Excommunication is a last resort, yet Ms Pelosi has had more than enough chances to denounce abortion and return to her faith.
And no, “Catholics” who back abortion are not actually Catholics.
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Well said. You only left out one thing, critical to Jewbaca’s misunderstanding. In the Roman Catholic faith the Church is God’s representative on earth. Denial of communion represents separation of the supplicant from forgiveness of his/her sins. It represents the supplicant’s failure to survive death.
It’s an appropriate price to pay for a person like Pelosi who is pivotal in a fight to legalize murder.