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I don’t know much about the politics of the Catholic Church. Does this mean that the more local bodies can develop a policy of withholding the Eucharist from pro-abortion politicians, if a local bishop decided to take their own teachings seriously?


6 posted on 06/27/2021 11:38:49 AM PDT by CommerceComet ("You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case, the government forgets the first." Rush Limbaugh )
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To: CommerceComet

The bishop decides. Not the USCCB, not the pope, not the synod. The bishop is the ruler in his own diocese.


17 posted on 06/27/2021 1:38:21 PM PDT by Marchmain (beware the dictatorship of relativism)
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To: CommerceComet

The Catholic Church has always stood against abortion, euthanasia, birth control and same sex marriage among other things.

The Catholic Church still has NOT changed. This is just bishops with a small “b” who aren’t acting with a fully formed conscience.

Have they forgotten the Commenadment “Thou shalt not kill.”?

Many have not forgotten, but some have.

It is a shame in my opinion.


20 posted on 06/27/2021 1:54:01 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: CommerceComet
According to canon law, the minister of communion -- not the bishop -- is responsible for denying communion to persons engaged in manifest public grave sin.
28 posted on 06/28/2021 1:17:39 PM PDT by Campion (What part of "shall not be infringed" don't they understand?)
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