My daughter went to a Lutheran church until 6th grade. She received her communion in the Lutheran church.
For middle school she went to a Catholic church. She was all excited to receive her first communion there and they yanked her from line.
Catholicism has been hijacked.
Why can’t priests reproduce? So the assets aren’t liquidated among offspring?
Is your daughter Catholic or not?
Why can’t priests reproduce? So the assets aren’t liquidated among offspring?You need help.
BTW priests can have kids. For instance, married men can become priests, e.g. in the 21 (out of 22) Catholic churches of the East --- churches which are in union with us in the West. And even in the Latin (Western) Church, widowers with children can be priests. It's heart-warming to see the priest's kids at the ordination.
No Catholic child receives communion without proper preparation and instruction. No child that did not receive that preparation and instruction could expect to receive communion.
If your daughter was in the 6th grade, she was about 12 years old and thus old enough to have made a profession of faith. If she was receiving Lutheran communion, she was making a profession of faith in that belief system -- and one that was probably exclusive of others if it was a conservative Lutheran congregation.
She could not simultaneously adhere to Lutheran and Catholic beliefs. If she made her profession and communed with the Lutherans, she could not validly receive Catholic communion.
While it was embarrassing that nobody figured this out until she was in the communion line, the fact remains that St. Paul warned about receiving invalidly. It is dangerous, and the sisters did right in stopping her from "eating and drinking damnation" - 1st Corinthians ch. 11
That's nothing. I was born and raised Catholic, baptised as a baby in the Catholic Church, took my first Communion in the Catholic Church, and married my wife (a Catholic) in the Catholic Church.
In 1993, we left the Catholic Church amidst the big sex abuse scandal, of which the Priest in the Church we attended and knew by first name, was implicated (and later admitted his guilt.) The cover-up by the Chicago Archdiocese so turned us off, we started attending a Christian Church, and have been at that church since.
A few years ago, my wife's Grandmother died at 88. She was a devout Catholic from the Old Country (Hungary) so naturally she had a Catholic funeral.
Before the Priest gave Communion, he read a statement that said in no uncertain terms that only Catholics at the funeral were allowed to participate in Communion as the rest of us were (and I quote) "not in Union in the Holy Spirit along with the 'one true church', the Catholic Church."
To say I was furious would be an understatement. I'd never heard such personally divisive hateful language at any Catholic funeral prior to, or since that one.
I don't know if it was just that Priest, or the Archdiocese of the Upper Penninsula/Michigan, or something else but I was genuinely upset - as was my Mother and Father in Law along with other family members - all devout Catholics themselves.
I made it a point to give the Priest a piece of my mind along with a good dose of Scripture right before I told him that the lunch being served after the funeral was for family and friends only - as he was not family or friend he was not invited.
When we go visit my wife's parents, I refuse to attend Church with them. I just cannot stand that Priest. They on the other hand, thoroughly enjoy coming to our church when they visit us and they always know they're welcome to take Communion with us.
Based on my reading and understanding of Scripture (even while remembering my own Catholic upbringing) I have to think Jesus would be pretty upset that any of his believers would be denied Communion.
What would Jesus do? Simple: He took the bread, broke it, and said "take this ALL OF YOU and eat it. This is my body which is given up for you."
Pretty simple.
You obviously ride without a helmet.
Who has hijacked Catholicism? This has been the historic teaching of the Catholic Church for 1000 years.. Also,do you know when you take communion at a Catholic church, you are professing what they preach from pulpit is true? So if you take communion, you are professing that you are taking the actual body and blood of Jesus, that you believe Priest should not marry and be celilbant, that you believe in praying to the Saints?
you are mixing up a dogmatic issue (the theme of this article) and a discipline (celibacy). We have a lot of threads to discuss the latter. Let’s focus on the dogmatic reasons for the article