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Denying communion to Catholic politicians is ‘toxic,’ N.J.’s Cardinal Tobin warns fellow bishopsSitting in his office in New Jersey, Cardinal Joseph Tobin looked into his computer’s camera and urged his fellow Catholic bishops to kill a proposal that could lead to denying Holy Communion to political leaders who support abortion rights.The move could “drive a wedge” between Americans and the Catholic Church, Tobin told the members of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops gathered online for the high-profile debate.“Any effort by this conference to move in support of the categorical exclusion of Catholic political leaders from the Eucharist based...

Francis Cardinal: Abu Dhabi Document Is Bomb with Time Fuze "The Abu Dhabi document is a bomb with delayed effect," Rabat Cardinal Cristóbal Lopez Romero said at a February 22 presser in Bari, Italy.He meant this positively, “It will bear fruit in the next 5, 10, 20 years.”According to him “the stage of dialogue, which consisted of tolerance, is over.” Now, the “dialogue of friendship, hospitality, mutual knowledge, respect and openness to each other and collaboration to build a better world has begun.”Lopez sees this as a sign of “the Spirit at work.”It is noticeable that the modernist would never...