Rhode Island parish priest puts out list of pro-abortion legislators, says they can't receive communion. Legislator named strikes out against him

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It has to do with the interpretation of Canon 915 and obviously, there are differences among the hierarchy.

I’ll yield to my Bishops authority until the Pope orders otherwise.
 
Even the pastor would not necessarily know if a person had been to confession or not.

He could ask, but will he ask every parishioner as they enter the church, or just let each person follow their own conscience ?

The latter is the choice most priests make
 
Have you ever considered that this has led to many situations where a majority (or close to a majority) of the congregation (during a particular Mass) is not in a state of grace, and yet is receiving the Eucharist?
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And as my former confessor told me, at that point, it’s between you and God.
 
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I think that the conditiions for receiving Holy Communion have been pretty well known for some time.
 
Well, the priest is technically right - it does not kill - directly - but often leads to the “walking dead”, and in some circumstances, to suicide.

And as Voltaire said, the problem with common sense is that it is not all that common.
 
It’s not about going to confession. Unless he publicly repudiates his public sin, he cannot publicly receive communion. He can go to confession and receive absolution, but his firm amendment of life (and part of his penance) is going to have to include repairing the public damage he did to the faith. When he does that, he may receive publicly. The church cannot allow wanton public sinners to receive communion. That’s scandalous, not merciful.
 
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Are you arguing against what I said? Are you actually reading and understanding anything I said???
 
mrsdizzyd said:
I didn’t have a problem with his notice (though I think there were more prudent options), but this statement is just tone deaf. My goodness!
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otjm said:
Well, the priest is technically right - it does not kill - directly - but often leads to the “walking dead”
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I disagree with the priest.

Abortion only destroys the physical body of the victim, whereas sexual battery of a child destroys that victim’s soul (aka “walking dead”) and potentially, the victim’s body as well.

Which is worse, to murder a body or murder a soul? IDK, both are wrong, but in Christianity, if the immortal soul is dead, the individual has an eternity of problems.
 
The scandal that exists is the priest refusing Biden Holy Communion.

This comes at a time when the Church is struggling to get out of the sexual abuse crisis and other scandals the clergy has brought on us. We just lost our priest to a financial scandal and are now waiting for his replacement, if that comes instead of closing the parish all together. To the outside world looking at the act of refusing a politician like Biden Holy Communion, makes the Church look hypocritical.

This is the real scandal, as it drives people away from Christ and toward atheism and other religious practices which are sometimes demonic.
 
Prohibiting people from being witnesses to marriage is, in my experience, a novelty and I don’t see how that would be justified in/by the law.

Dan
 
JimR-OCDS said:
The scandal that exists is the priest refusing Biden Holy Communion.
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Scandal, as the church uses the term, “is an attitude or behavior which leads another to do evil.” A priest refusing communion to someone who has publicly supported evil really doesn’t seem like an action that will lead someone else to commit a sin. The priest’s action cannot reasonably be termed scandalous.
 
Making this scandal leads people away from Christ and the Church, just as the definition you provided.

Had the priest not refused Biden Holy Communion, we wouldn’t be arguing about in this forum. You can only imagine how those outside the Church view it.
 
The scandal is that very prominent political or cultural figures who profess to be Catholic publicly support actions which no Catholic should support. That provides a bad example for other Catholics to follow which leads them away from the truth.
 
JimR-OCDS said:
Making this scandal leads people away from Christ and the Church, just as the definition you provided.
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No, you are misusing the word. If scandal meant doing something that led people away from the church that would mean supporting the church’s teaching on sexual issues was scandalous, as surely any number of people have left the church because of those particular doctrines.

It cannot be scandalous to proclaim a truth, to follow doctrines. or to enforce the laws of the church.
 
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“ is an attitude or behavior which leads another to do evil. ”
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Keeping people away from Christ and his Church will keep people from receiving the transforming grace from Christ, which will transform
their lives.

Religion which doesn’t transform a person toward union with Christ, is useless religion
 
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JimR-OCDS said:
Keeping people away from Christ and his Church will keep people from receiving the transforming grace from Christ, which will transform
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If by “keeping people away” you mean by denying them communion then your interpretation directly contradicts what the church teaches, which is in fact that not everyone may receive. If by keeping them away you mean that they will be disinclined to join a church that acts according to its beliefs then I think you have it backwards.
 
I certainly don’t take it the wrong way and you are absolutely correct.

I should have said “ they are being given little choice”
 
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