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I did not say the man did not commit a sin. I said DIVORCED people can still receive the Sacraments, presuming that all other criteria for worthily receiving are in place. IOW, divorce in itself is not a sin. How do I know? I am divorced, and a Catholic in good standing. I am not remarried.
Bobzills, I wish you would focus on the message, and stop pointing out exceptions as if they were the rule.
You are obviously not a practicing Catholic or you would known that when the priest talks to his flock after the Gospel, it is called a “homily” not a “sermon.”
*At present there are four recognized ways of treating the homily, but not all to be equally commended.
** The first method consists in treating separately each sentence of the Gospel**. It is not to be recommended, for it gives, at best, but a fragmentary and scattered treatment.
The second method …focuses the entire content of the Gospel in a single idea. It is usually called the “higher homily”, It is clear that only certain Gospels can be treated in this way.
The third kind selects some virtue or vice arising out of the Gospel, and treats one or the other to the exclusion of all else. This kind of homily is commonly called a “prone”.
The fourth kind is that which first paraphrases and explains the entire Gospel, and then makes an application of it. This…seems, except where the “higher homily” applies, to be the best, because it can guard against the besetting defect of the homily, namely, a tendency to lack of unity and continuity.*
newadvent.org/cathen/07448a.htm
The first option is what a sermon is, where the preacher can pick whatever verse he choses and rant on them. The Catholic Church teaches that the priest must reference the day’s readings to his preaching. IOW, the priest can’t just focus on St. Paul and rant about his writings, like some fundamentalist preachers do.
Again, I wish you would focus on the message, and not the renegades who publicly flout Church Teaching, hoping to distract the bishops from their duties of shepherding their flocks.
I get the feeling you are not here for understanding but for condemning.
What do you want the Pope to do? Get the seating assignment of all the pro-abortion people, then scrutinize the priests who are giving out Communion in those sections with his binoculars, and if he sees an abuse, stop the mass and run over there and slap the hand that is giving Communion to them (hopefully he’ll get there on time) and excommunicate them on the spot? Maybe he could have had a Swiss Guard stand at every Communion station to make sure that each person going to communion professed conformity to Church Teaching before receiving.
Everyone has a free will. The Pope told his priests pro-abortion people are not to receive communion. The priests did it anyway, and Pelosi et al received anyway. The Pope is not a puppeteer pulling strings to force people to do what is right. Even Jesus was disobeyed and betrayed. The Pope did not come here to swat at every gnat. He came here on an apostolic mission. When he gets back to business in the Vatican he can deal with theses abuses. And he has, as has been previously posted.
QUOTE=Sham7;3585504] Even catholic women got abortions when it was illegal and when it was immoral in their own faith. Women will make wrong choices no matter what the circumstance no different than us men. The fact that people will do something anyway, does not mean it should be legal. Murder, robbery, are illegal and people do it anyway. Should we decriminalize them?
The reason I brought this up is that it is perfectly legal that she do this. It is not a human being, so why are people outraged?
War is sometimes a necessary evil. I don’t know to which wrong reasons you are referring, but I will say we can’t just stand by and watch a dictator slaughter an entire ethnic group (Hitler, Saddam Husein, Milosovic). We are the richest nation on earth, and we should do all we can to help bring justice to the world.
Until we respect life at it’s very beginnings, we will never eradicate war. The US has never been an instigator of mass genocide, except in the case of the unborn.
Sometimes you have to die for what you believe in…
Who said, “All men die, some men live before they die.”
Does the pope look like a hypocrite when he gives communion to those politicians that brazenly and openly go against the church’s teachings? After all, he is to stand up to the sins of the world, not just push them under the rug. Besides, how many good Catholics can’t take communion because of issues within the church?
