- Is Francis’ Catholic Church just another leftist scam?
- Could the Bishops be more obtuse?
- Mother Nancy of Pacific Heights invokes the heavens in worship of gaea — “its a religious thing”
“But the Vatican warned that such a policy could be divisive, and Pope Francis said the bishops shouldn’t politicize the reception of Communion.”
Nobody “politicizes” their ‘abiding Catholic faith’ more than “CornPop” Joey, Nancy P and Francis himself. Wall Street Journal article below, bold our emphasis
Catholic Bishops Drop Effort to Ban Communion for Politicians Who Support Abortion Rights.
The vote was the culmination of a debate that has exposed deep ideological divisions between U.S. bishops and Rome
BALTIMORE—The Catholic bishops of the U.S. ended a nearly yearlong debate Wednesday over whether to bar politicians who support abortion rights from receiving the Eucharist, passing new guidance on Communion that doesn’t address the issue.
The measure passed by a vote of 222-8 and was followed by applause at a gathering here of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
The vote was the culmination of a debate that has taken most of the year and exposed deep ideological divisions in the church—particularly between U.S. bishops and Rome.
Conservatives in the U.S. had pushed to issue guidelines that would clearly advise clergy not to offer Communion to politicians who support abortion rights, a category that includes President Biden.
But the Vatican warned that such a policy could be divisive, and Pope Francis said the bishops shouldn’t politicize the reception of Communion. Last month, after the two men met at the Vatican, Mr. Biden told reporters that Pope Francis had called him a good Catholic and told him to continue receiving Communion.
Regardless of any guidance from the USCCB, individual bishops ultimately have the power under church law to deny Communion. Cardinal Wilton Gregory, who as archbishop of Washington, D.C. is the president’s pastor, has said that he would not refuse him Communion.
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, who has said that the president shouldn’t take Communion, has criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Catholic whose home district is in his archdiocese, for her support of abortion rights.
So a pope spreads the word that any perception of politics must be avoided,* such that even when it comes to abortion — legitimizing the voluntary destruction of unborn members of the human family at any stage of pregnancy, even requiring the church and its adherents to pay for it, is not a big deal — that a prominent politician advocating it is in full communion as it were . . . just another sinner and because of political correctness — thought to be well-meaning as well. There is no apostasy big enough to separate oneself from the Church. Apparently you could notoriously announce for satanism or return of Jim Crow laws and proudly walk up to the communion rail and expect (demand) communion. That is the logic of the church establishment under Francis’ heresy.
We know that it is not a two way street, Nancy Pelosi can bring her brand of religion into the political sphere and we have no doubt be welcome to spew it in any number of Catholic Churches.
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Only when it comes to abortion under Francis and so many of the American Bishops are we reminded of Abraham Lincolns frustration, with Whigs and other political elements squeamish over the “social issue” of the day, slavery.
“We must not call it wrong in politics because that is bringing morality into politics; we must not call it wrong in the pulpit because that is bringing politics into religion … and there is no single place, according to you where this wrong thing can be properly called wrong!”
A Catholic slaveholder today by Francis’ lights might be told he is a good Catholic and told to keep receiving communion. Communion is food for the soul, don’t you know . . . and so by that logic we wonder how could anyone but an anti-slavery zealot be scandalized, how could the church’s position on slavery be confused or the seriousness misunderstood should a notorious slaveholder present himself for communion?? By Francis’ light a priest might call abortion wrong, once in awhile as Francis has done, as long he does not obsess about it, he just can’t risk shaming a notorious politician responsible for its legality by denying him communion. That would be one who has shamed himself on such a serious matter but nevertheless publicly presents himself/herself for communion who also effectively shames the church by implicating to the congregation that he/she is in full communion with it . . . that the church really does not take the matter seriously .. . . that abortion and the church’s position is no big deal.
*this from a pope who injects himself “left and left” on matters of immigration, climate change, world government, economics, vaccines, you name it.
