Pope Francis or Benedict Quote?

[PietroPaolo]

Was it Pope Francis or Pope Benedict who liked receiving Communion while disbelieving in some teachings of the Church to lying with one’s body? Does anyone have a source for this quote?

Thanks.

 

[Joe_5859]

I never heard that one before, but I am interested to see it, too, now.

 

[pianistclare]

I found something on a webpage, but it is not attributed to a Pope…

*Just so, it is a lie for someone who is not Catholic to receive Communion in the Catholic Church, when there is first no union with the Catholic Church. When you receive Communion in the Catholic Church, you are saying with your body that you are in union with the Church and that you believe as we believe. And not just in regard to the Real Presence, but also in regard to the Pope, to Mary, to the other Sacraments, to the Communion of Saints, the priesthood, salvation, and so on. If there is no union, there should be no Communion.

The same holds when you receive communion in a non-Catholic faith tradition. You are saying, with your body, that you believe as they believe. You are telling everyone present that there is essentially no difference between what they believe about communion and what you, as a Catholic, believe about Communion. **You are telling a lie with your body. ** That is why Catholics should not receive communion, or the Lord’s Supper, outside the bounds of the Catholic Church. *

This is the site: biblechristiansociety.com/newsletter/detail/171

Couldn’t find anything from either of these Popes with similar language.

 

[PietroPaolo]

I found something on a webpage, but it is not attributed to a Pope…

*Just so, it is a lie for someone who is not Catholic to receive Communion in the Catholic Church, when there is first no union with the Catholic Church. When you receive Communion in the Catholic Church, you are saying with your body that you are in union with the Church and that you believe as we believe. And not just in regard to the Real Presence, but also in regard to the Pope, to Mary, to the other Sacraments, to the Communion of Saints, the priesthood, salvation, and so on. If there is no union, there should be no Communion.

The same holds when you receive communion in a non-Catholic faith tradition. You are saying, with your body, that you believe as they believe. You are telling everyone present that there is essentially no difference between what they believe about communion and what you, as a Catholic, believe about Communion. **You are telling a lie with your body. *** That is why Catholics should not receive communion, or the Lord’s Supper, outside the bounds of the Catholic Church.

This is the site: biblechristiansociety.com/newsletter/detail/171

Couldn’t find anything from either of these Popes with similar language.

Thanks. I heard something very similar attributed to either our one of our last two Holy Father’s but couldn’t find a source and was thus a little suspicious that it really was a quote from the Pope. It is a great way to put it though, isn’t it?

 

[pianistclare]

Thanks. I heard something very similar attributed to either our one of our last two Holy Father’s but couldn’t find a source and was thus a little suspicious that it really was a quote from the Pope. It is a great way to put it though, isn’t it?

It is…it’s accessible and logical thinking. Hard to argue with it.

Maybe one of them did say it…I don’t know, couldn’t find it though. Not that I spent a lot of time looking…LOL