Posted on 09/19/2014 6:12:03 PM PDT by marshmallow
BILLINGS, Mont. – A gay couple has been told they can no longer receive Communion or participate in church ministry after the new priest at a Roman Catholic church in central Montana learned they had been married in a civil ceremony more than a year ago.
The decision set off a split that has cut attendance at St. Leo the Great Catholic Church in Lewistown, population 5,900. It has prompted an upcoming visit from the bishop of the Diocese of Great Falls-Billings.
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The best thing I’ve found written on the Catholic take on marriage:
Every Catholic should give that a gander. Pope Leo XIII wrote it 130 years ago.
Freegards
It cut attendance? By how much & when did this actually happen?
Wife and I were married, but not by the church, and we are denied communion until our marriage is sanctified this coming October.
So a Catholic church is following Biblical teaching? Why is this news?
God bless the priest and bishop. Hopefully they’ll withstand the resultant lawsuits.
As if the Church were a form of popular entertainment.
why wuld it cut attendance....the jackasses who stayed away from Mass there need to think of what they are doing...the church is absolutely correct in denying the Eucharist to those who are actively participating in mortal sin. Those who ignore the churches authority to uphold biblical teachings are on thin ice themselves....so be it, come down on the side of rightousness or sin...whatever.
I don’t think they will do it - not at this stage anyway - there is plenty of hate out there for the Catholic/Christian church but I don’t know that they are ready yet to attack something so sacrosanct to Christianity - it would be great to be able to force their hand at this point and it would have the effect of separating the sheep from the goats in the congregations.
Sounds like you doubt how far these perverts will go to achieve their goal. There is a certain bakery in the north west that would beg to differ.
Usually they take small bites of the perversion/legal apple, with this one they are going for the whole apple.
Look what the Catholic church has had to go through over birth control and Obamacare ...
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It's big news when Catholic teaching is occasionally upheld, such is the current climate.
Yes, indeed, BIG news.
Nah I just doubt the timing - they will eventually - they have to build up to these things within the public mindset. Twenty years ago Joe Schmoe would not have accepted the anti-Christian pro-homo mindset that currently exists - ten years from now it might be considered a good thing that Christians are imprisoned or beheaded. I think the general population would still consider it is a churches business what happens with it’s own rites (except marriage) v’s what a business is entitled to do or not. Give them time though. I just think that Communion would be overreaching for them atm.
Excommunicate. That’s the answer.
I used to live in Lewistown. St Leo’s is the biggest church in town but I think the men may be very popular around this small rural town and the parishioners have decided to support them instead of being loyal to Biblical teaching. The Episcopal church is tiny there but would of course welcome them with open arms.
....”The decision set off a split”....
Goats from the sheep....God is working at flushing them out! Unfortunately the wrong ones will remain in the church in time.
...”think they are going to get the Diocese to back down”....
Heavy hitters in every denomination and church today....don’t be so sure they won’t be appeased sufficient enough to remain and grow within like the cancer they are.... That is how things “work” to not work now for Christian Morality to become the minority in play..
Just curious - could the sin be forgiven? Is it as bad as murder or rape? What constitutes a "need to send them to Hell to burn situation vs. a "Let's try to love them and help them see the Love of God and how their actions conflict with Him?
I wonder how many stone throwers actually deserve the honor of casting the stones they seem to be pelting all the "sinners" with.
Ping!
50 years of failing to instruct the faithful in the faith has consequences.
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