Pro-abortion Argentina president receives Holy Communion with mistress from Argentinian Bishop at Vatican

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Yes. It’s all over Twitter. Guess I should’ve found more sources first.
 
The Pope received a head of state, not in mass but in his office, on Friday.

Before the Pope met with the president of Argentina, he attended a mass NOT with the Pope, but with the Argentine Archbishop.

Groups of people, delegates from countries, pilgrim groups, etc, have masses in Vatican City all the time. That doesn’t mean there is any explicit approval from “the Vatican” of who participates in these masses or not.
 
It has a wee bit of a rep around here @Gripper. 🙂

It’s sort of the The Daily Mail or New York Post for angry Catholics.
 
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Vatican News says the Pope discussed abortion with the politician. Maybe Pope was admonishing him for all we know. I sincerely doubt the frothing-at-the-mouth blogger was in the room eavesdropping.

It sounds like the Holy Communion thing is on the Argentinian bishop’s head, not the Pope’s. As someone else said, there are dozens of Masses said in the Vatican daily. If you go down there very early you will see groups having simultaneous Masses all over St. Peter’s and later in the day they have them in the basement with the crypts. Each group brings its own priest and the Vatican is not keeping track of who receives Communion.
 
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I believe that the majority of clergy don’t feel comfortable that they can justify making the judgement of unworthiness in that moment at the altar during the Communion Rite. The Church condemns outright the evils of abortion, sodomy etc. It is known to everyone. It becomes a matter for each person then in his conscience regarding receiving Holy Communion. Pope St John Paul II never denied anyone Communion in that moment. The only time I recall a situation was Cardinal Pell refusing the Rainbow Sash people Holy Communion but that was when they clearly identified themselves as making a point on the Communion line.
 
My focus was on the giving of Holy Communion if, in fact, he was a pro-abortion adulterer as alleged.
 
There are “pro-abortion adulterers” receiving Communion every week in the USA and elsewhere.
You’d have to take the matter up with their individual priests and bishops, including in this case where it seems to have been the man’s own bishop making the call.
 
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Shouldn’t an Argentine Archbishop know if the President of his country is openly living in contempt of God’s Law?
 
Yes- The whole point. Biden was refused Holy Communion, and I was refused absolution for confessing that my fiancee and I were living in sin, until it stopped. There are some priests that do the right thing.
 
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Shouldn’t an Argentine Archbishop know if the President of his country is openly living in contempt of God’s Law?
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We don’t know what the bishop knows and what he doesn’t. We aren’t privy to the state of the president of Argentina’s soul, what counsel he may have receive from his bishop, what may be privately known to the bishop but not to us, etc.

We proceed with CHARITY, not with accusations.
 
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My focus was on the giving of Holy Communion if, in fact, he was a pro-abortion adulterer as alleged.
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Doesn’t appear that way to me. Seems more like slinging mud than any real interest in anything. Sensationalized thread headline that doesn’t accurately portray what happened. Someone a world away, who doesn’t know anything about the situation, posting a thread with NO point.

And misleading trash disguised as ‘news’. The “news” article tries to scandalize the faithful by placing the headline next to a picture of the president with the Pope. The POPE did not give the president communion. He met with him in his capacity as head of state.

The president went to a mass. He received communion. It had ZERO to do with the pope.
 
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It does seem as if conditions were laid out beforehand though…
This seems to have been agreed upon even before the interview: according to Archbishop Hector Aguer, former archbishop of La Plata, Fernandez told the press on the eve of his meeting with Francis that the issue of abortion would not be raised. This would seem to suggest that there was an agreement on this point prior to the audience.
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If he was pro abortion, or with his mistress, he should NOT have been given Holy Communion.
 
Oh I understand. I’m in agreement with you that most likely the Vatican and the bishop knew of this politician’s pro abortion stance and marital (non) situation.
 
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