My parish gave communion to a pro-choice Catholic

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As I replied to another poster, I am not saying I am for capital punishment. I just think it makes more sense to execute the actual guilty party than a new life that has done nothing wrong.
 
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redbetta said:
I just think it makes more sense to execute the actual guilty party than a new life that has done nothing wrong.
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Sort of like it makes more sense to eliminate a zygote but not a baby who is already born?

This doesn’t square with what a pro-lifer is supposed to be about. I would be careful with that if you consider yourself pro-life.
 
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One option is killing the kid. The other is allowing it to live and be adopted by loving parents.
 
Human life is human life.

I never said I was for capital punishment. I am against it in a time and place in which you can keep violent criminals from hurting others without killing them.
 
That’s a qualifier though. I didn’t think pro-life people used qualifiers. At least not when it came to preserving life at all costs.
 
Yes this does seem to be exhibiting scrupulosity.
Take it up with your confessor not here.
You will of course only get disagreements not certainty on a forum.
And also,
take it up with your confessor.
 
Pro-lifers are not about preserving life at all-costs. We are against purposefully taking lives unless the life being taken is that of an aggressor. A pro-life person would not be against someone opting for hospice instead of pursuing treatment that has a slim chance of working.
 
I can understand where you’re coming from. In a way, it’s somewhat similar when you go to Mass at Christmas and Easter and you see many…“unfamiliar” faces going up to receive the Eucharist. Also, when you go to your parish’s designated Reconciliation period every week, you can see who goes often - and you think that even the “familiar” faces don’t go, so what is their current state?

Personally, I’ve decided to not be the “older brother” in the parable of the prodigal son. I still evangelize and catechize, and do so in method some describe as “relational ministry”. But those things happen before or after Mass, not during Mass. During Mass, I try to bring myself “back to the manger”, and keep things between myself and the Child Jesus.

Also, do you have a spiritual director? Finding one could be beneficial, although they are hard to find (I’m a month away from finishing a spiritual director course, and I already have people asking if we could set up recurring appointments. Supply and demand, I guess).
 
Being pro-life is respecting and preserving life from conception to natural death.
 
Yes I read it. You put a qualifier in. My point is just that you can’t have it both ways.
 
I’m anti-capital punishment(actually voted against it in my state), but one human being committed a heinous crime, the other did not. I think anti-capital punishment liberals who are in favor of killing pre-born human beings are hypocrites. Their ideology is not consistent.
 
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That’s a qualifier though. I didn’t think pro-life people used qualifiers. At least not when it came to preserving life at all costs.
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The Catholic Church is ok with that qualifier. Why can’t we be?
 
I don’t get why I can’t use qualifiers. Killing someone who is dangerous to the public does not make one not pro-life.
 
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