Pelosi Says Her Catholic Faith ‘Compels’ Her To Support Gay Marriage

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There was, for example, news of a priest denying a gay woman the Eucharist at her mother’s funeral.

Of course, anyone who doesn’t understand the Catholic Church is going to be outraged. Still, if this woman is out and proud enough that even the priest knows about it, then he can’t give the Eucharist to her.
abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/priest-who-denied-lesbian-communion-at-mothers-funeral-placed-on-leave/

And there we see that even then, gay rights advocates are trying to tell the Church what to do.

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But overall, I do not like that so many are proud of sin. I sin all the time but I never dare say, “My Catholicism compels me to acts this way.” That’s what bothers me about this situation.
 
Dymphna82 said:
There was, for example, news of a priest denying a gay woman the Eucharist at her mother’s funeral.

Of course, anyone who doesn’t understand the Catholic Church is going to be outraged. Still, if this woman is out and proud enough that even the priest knows about it, then he can’t give the Eucharist to her.
abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/priest-who-denied-lesbian-communion-at-mothers-funeral-placed-on-leave/

And there we see that even then, gay rights advocates are trying to tell the Church what to do.

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But overall, I do not like that so many are proud of sin. I sin all the time but I never dare say, “My Catholicism compels me to acts this way.” That’s what bothers me about this
situation.
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Indeed - it makes about as much sense as saying ‘my citizenship of the US compels me to disagree that there is such a thing as a right to free speech/the vote/insert other Constitutionally protected right here’

Just doesn’t compute.
 
heaintheavy said:
But where does one draw the line?
If the church excommunicated a Catholic who signed a petition supporting abortion and gay marriage…what about others, unlike Pelosi, who are not in the public eye?
There are Catholics who have had abortions, for example.
There are gay Catholics who have had sex with someone of the same gender and continue to do so.
I assume these actions would be considered by the church to be of the same ilk–perhaps worse–than signing a petition. Should these people be “reported on” by friends and family and then excommunicated?

(I assume any priests who have confessed to sexual scandal, if there are any, are ex-communicated? Is that a given…?)
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All they would have to do is go to confession and confess their sins by kind and number. Simple as that.
 
Jeanne_S said:
Yes!Amen!👍
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Originally Posted by Elizabeth502
Why do you insist on continuing to bring this up, CMatt? With whom are you arguing? The issue is dead. Again, as has been said repeatedly, the issue both on this thread and in general, is not what (a) Nancy Pelosi’s technical religious identity is, (b) what your religious identity is, (c) what your debaters’ religious identity is, or are. It doesn’t matter if Nancy Pelosi has waived her baptismal certificate constantly during every un-Catholic statement she has made.

And I did not bring that up in the post of mine, above, which you just quoted. It’s your attempt to derail the thread into a recalcitrant discussion of who is technically defined as Catholic by the Church, even while everyone else has left the subject. Therefore, your quoting me just now is non-responsive to the quote you cited. Drop it. My post had zero to do with Catholic identities on Catholic websites.

We get it that it’s your agenda, and your way of avoiding the essential topic of just what is a Catholic position versus what is not a Catholic position – instead of the straw man of “who is Catholic” and “who is not Catholic.”

Yes!Amen!
👍 Being baptised in the Trinitarian form in the Church she has excommunicated herself from the Church. She will answer to the Lord if she does not have a conversion of heart in the confessional.
 
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