Diocese gives nod for Kerry to receive Eucharist

The Boston Herald ^ | April 10, 2004 | Eric Convey

[delacoert]

Priests in the Archdiocese of Boston are allowed to serve Sen. John F. Kerry [related, bio] communion this Easter even though he bucks the church's stand against abortion.

The Rev. John Ardis, director of the Paulist Center, where Kerry and his wife worship locally, said an archdiocesan official telephoned Thursday to tell him Kerry ``was as welcome as any other Catholic to receive the eucharist.''

The Rev. Christopher J. Coyne, a spokesman for Archbishop Sean P. O'Malley, said in an interview yesterday, ``The archbishop has made no comment about Sen. Kerry and his Catholicism, nor does he plan on doing so in the near future.''

What's unclear is whether O'Malley privately urged Kerry to abstain from taking communion.

[Jim Noble]

I wish the liberal Catholics would just join the Episcopal Church.

They already have.

[Darheel]

In effect this means that the Catholic church approves of abortion and politicians who support it. Sickening. It's funny how everyone's concerned with the flesh and blood ritual while child human sacrifice is absolved; well, maybe not so funny.

[kittymyrib]

This reminds one of the Catholic practice of selling indulgences and buying one's way out of pergatory...the church has its price. Don't bother looking in the Bible for any of this because it isn't there.
How can any church that counts the Kennedys, Kerry, and Daschle as members have any credibility?

[templar]

This sort of thing is one of the reasons I have a hard time taking the Catholic church seriously as a Christian organization.

[Capt. Tom]

In effect this means that the Catholic church approves of abortion and politicians who support it.

Looks like abortion support is not a sin afterall. - Tom

Canon 915 of the Catholic Church's Code of Canon Law states:
Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or the declaration of a penalty as well as others who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to communion.

[festus]

Counting Kerry is nothing, counting Clinton thats something...

[gramcam]

My email to Bp. O'Malley

To: Archbishop Sean P. O'Malley - I'm a 67 yr old Catholic grandmother - a convert of 50 years - and I am hurt and angry about your approval of John Kerry being graced with receiving the Eucharist. Our bishops are going to have to meet this challenge sooner or later. Those faithful who are just now coming back to the Church after the horrible embarassment of the recent homosexual scandal do not deserve to be slapped in the face with another scandal because their bishops prefer to hide from their duties as Shepherds of Christ's people. It was a babe in the womb who first recognized our Lord when Mary visited Elizabeth. How can you tell the people that it's OK... that it's right and holy for those who legislate destroying life in the womb ... to receive the body of our Lord in their mouths? It's not true! Truth, as the bishop of Poitiers wrote hundreds of years ago, is its own sufficient witness, "and the more it is assailed, the more evident it becomes." Now is the time to stand firm with the truth the Church teaches, not later.

[xsmommy]

excellent!

[redhead]

"In effect this means that the Catholic church approves of abortion and politicians who support it. Sickening. It's funny how everyone's concerned with the flesh and blood ritual while child human sacrifice is absolved; well, maybe not so funny."

No, it doesn't mean any such thing. It means that THIS bishop and THIS priest do not give a fig for what the CHURCH teaches on these subjects. This bishop and this priest are not the Church. You know as well as I do that the Catholic Church is the only church that has never wavered in its support for all life, from conception to natural death.

"Sickening. It's funny how everyone's concerned with the flesh and blood ritual while child human sacrifice is absolved."

And your point here is...?

[lepton]

Frederick Douglass wrote that of all the masters who had owned him as a chattel slave, by far the most brutal and unfeeling were those who made strong professions of religiosity. There's a vast difference, obviously between a religious person and a Religious person. God save us from the latter.

There's also the matter of what kind of person is able to know the Word and vigorously ignore it.

[NCjim]

I wonder what size of donation was required for this ruling?

Give me a break!

[freekitty]

I agree.

[PaxMacian]

Kerry ``was as welcome as any other Catholic to receive the eucharist.''

I assume this is a statement of fact.
If he confessess his sins and repents
and performs penance before receiving
communion, as any other Catholic should,
then he is welcome. If not, then they
should turn him away or they too will be
sinning against the body and blood of the Lord.

[Happy2BMe]

"Priests in the Archdiocese of Boston are allowed to serve Sen. John F. Kerry [related, bio] communion this Easter even though he bucks the church's stand against abortion."

Kerry the Catholic ping.

[Happy2BMe]

When I'm President, Gay Priests Can Do Abortions - RIGHT HERE!

[MeekOneGOP]

[netmilsmom]

Ping!

[Defender2]

I ask that the Vatican investigate the Boston Archdiocese.

[Mr. Thorne]

bump

[don-o]

Go Grannie Go GO!!