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To: stuartcr
I wonder if the pope would refuse communion to Rudy if he got elected president?

He should. It's not just about public scandal for the Church, it's also about the sinner's soul...

1 Cor 11:27 Therefore, whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord. 28 But let a man prove himself: and so let him eat of that bread and drink of the chalice. 29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh judgment to himself...

5 posted on 10/03/2007 1:25:47 PM PDT by pgyanke (Duncan Hunter 08--You want to elect a conservative? Then support a conservative!)
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To: pgyanke

Paul has a way of cutting to the quick.


13 posted on 10/03/2007 3:16:50 PM PDT by joebuck
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To: pgyanke

> He should. It’s not just about public scandal for the Church, it’s also about the sinner’s soul...

He should not. The Church should concern itself with matters Spiritual, not matters Temporal.

This is an intolerable interference in matters that are of no concern to the Church. The Bishop ought to be called to the Vatican and be given gentle chastising by His Holiness.

> 1 Cor 11:27 Therefore, whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord. 28 But let a man prove himself: and so let him eat of that bread and drink of the chalice. 29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh judgment to himself...

This passage suggests that judgment is from the Almighty, and that wilfully partaking of sacriment unworthily becomes a self-inflicted injury. There is no mention of the Church having any role to play here.


78 posted on 10/04/2007 1:17:03 AM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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