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To: cloudmountain
I don't plan on sitting in judgment on ANYone. It reminds me of Jesus' sermon about the "boulder" in MY eye. Thank goodness God is our judge and not....

Why are you raising the issue of judgment? Are you suggesting that denial of Communion requires judgment? It doesn't. All that is required is a reading of Catholic teaching such as Familiaris Consortio.

Have you read this apostolic exhortation? If not, click on the link and read it.

This is Pope St. John Paul II talking and here's a relevant excerpt:

However, the Church reaffirms her practice, which is based upon Sacred Scripture, of not admitting to Eucharistic Communion divorced persons who have remarried. They are unable to be admitted thereto from the fact that their state and condition of life objectively contradict that union of love between Christ and the Church which is signified and effected by the Eucharist. Besides this, there is another special pastoral reason: if these people were admitted to the Eucharist, the faithful would be led into error and confusion regarding the Church's teaching about the indissolubility of marriage.

Reconciliation in the sacrament of Penance which would open the way to the Eucharist, can only be granted to those who, repenting of having broken the sign of the Covenant and of fidelity to Christ, are sincerely ready to undertake a way of life that is no longer in contradiction to the indissolubility of marriage. This means, in practice, that when, for serious reasons, such as for example the children's upbringing, a man and a woman cannot satisfy the obligation to separate, they "take on themselves the duty to live in complete continence, that is, by abstinence from the acts proper to married couples."

Feel free to cut and paste any of JPII's words which you feel are too "judgmental".

Chaput and Paprocki are simply reiterating what is written in Familiaris Consortio, which should be entirely noncontroversial to a Catholic. As JPII says, the practice of not admitting the divorced and "remarried" to Communion is based on Scripture, not on "judgment".

19 posted on 07/19/2016 1:13:07 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow
So, continue to judge them. Continue to condemn them. It's your right to blast away on this FREE Republic.

Got your stone ready?

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Ready, aim....

21 posted on 07/19/2016 1:20:27 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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