Posted on 12/01/2014 10:57:40 AM PST by BlatherNaut
"...On Sunday’s edition of Face the Nation, recently installed Archbishop Blasé Cupich demonstrated that Chicago is indeed being introduced to a new style of episcopal leadership. This was nowhere more evident than the archbishop’s response to host Norah O’Donnell’s question regarding pro-abortion politicians and the reception of Communion:
O’DONNELL: So, when you say we cannot politicize the communion rail, you would give communion to politicians, for instance, who support abortion rights.
CUPICH: I would not use the Eucharist or as they call it the communion rail as the place to have those discussions or way in which people would be either excluded from the life of the church. The Eucharist is an opportunity of grace and conversion. It’s also a time of forgiveness of sins. So my hope would be that that grace would be instrumental in bringing people to the truth.
In other words, those who persist in mortal sin and public scandal through their continued political support of abortion should still receive the Eucharist.
(Excerpt) Read more at onepeterfive.com ...
Sacrilege against the Sacrament.
Pastoral malpractice of the worst kind, leading a Catholic into (further, multiple) deadly sins.
Grave scandal to the faithful.
It's like open complicity with Nazis. How much blood can they ignore?
So are we to understand that Confession has been absorbed by Communion now?
Who are we to judge?
Apparently.
Want the Church to listen? Withhold money, nothing makes more noise than an empty collection basket.
“...And now, much as Saturday’s stunning launch of Blase Cupich as George’s successor is the sign of a markedly different time, the move’s lineage stayed eerily intact.
According to ops appraised of the process, the principal Stateside force behind the nod was Boston’s Cardinal Seán O’Malley OFM Cap., now Pope Francis’ chief North American adviser as the continent’s lone member of the pontiff’s “Gang of Nine.” The coordinator of the reform group, Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga – clearly impressed with Cupich’s June turn after his own in Washington – is said to have joined the early push for the Spokane prelate, which was reportedly agreed to by Francis’ lead American on the Congregation for Bishops, the capital’s Cardinal Donald Wuerl. (Beyond the committee work of the USCCB, Cupich and Wuerl would likewise have solid ties through the National Catholic Education Association, whose board the former currently chairs. Given Chicago’s boast of the nation’s largest diocesan school system, several major Catholic universities – including the US’ largest, the Vincentian-run DePaul – as well as two immensely influential graduate centers at Mundelein and the Catholic Theological Union, the confluence of that local context and the choice is a significant aspect which should not be underestimated.)
From the outset of the process, it was made clear that the Pope was driven to “own” his selection for the nation’s third-largest diocese, quite possibly the only one Francis will be able to make in the US church’s topmost rank. The way things have panned out, he’s done precisely that...”
http://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com/2014/09/in-chicagos-wake-riding-wave.html
This sounds very sad. Church law provides for denial of communion - at least for the worst offenders who intentionally mislead others into grave sin. Giving communion to the likes of Nancy Pelosi makes a shambles of church teaching while seriously sending very wrong signals to the flock. IMHO.
All that is missing from his insipid statement is “Who am I to judge?”
He is just one more corrupt and immoral member of the hierarchy.
re: So, when you say we cannot politicize the communion rail, you would give communion to politicians, for instance, who support abortion rights.
It seems to me that these politicians have already politicized the communion rail. They do not really believe but are only using the Church as a prop to advance their position, status, and power. They are not people of genuine faith or they would abide by the teachings of the Bible and the church. So to give Communion under the guise of not politicizing it is to allow the Church to serve as a tool of corrupt politicians who call evil good and good evil.
Agree.
O’DONNELL: So, when you say we cannot politicize the communion rail, you would give communion to politicians, for instance, who support abortion rights.
CUPICH: I would not use the Eucharist or as they call it the communion rail as the place to have those discussions or way in which people would be either excluded from the life of the church. The Eucharist is an opportunity of grace and conversion. It’s also a time of forgiveness of sins. So my hope would be that that grace would be instrumental in bringing people to the truth
There is no such thing as a communion rail in Catholic churches today. The very question shows the reporter had not been inside a Catholic church in decades, if ever.
Abortion is more than just a political issue. It is the deliberate killing of an innocent, unborn child. To accept that the killing of a child is a political issue, not a moral one, shows at best a complete lack of spiritual and moral values and at worst an active promotion of evil.
Cupich was an alternate, obviously thrown in to placate the Gang of Nine. The others in the list were all orthodox, and it was the Pope and his henchmen who picked Cupich.
Pelosi, a devote Catholic, is smiling.
Yes! Better to have the discussions in those abattoirs called abortion clinics where everyone except the baby can be heard.
The Catholic Church wonders why so many have left the pews. Hello!
What’s the point? The way things are going, the Catholic Church doesn’t look much different than any other left-leaning denomination. We are wandering, just as in days of old.
As we said at Mass this weekend, “Come, Lord, Jesus!”
....Or what I would “conservative” bishops since now Pope Francis is working to get the Eastern Orthodox Churches back into unity.
In other words, those who persist in mortal sin and public scandal through their continued political support of abortion should still receive the Eucharist.
PFL
If I walked into my Catholic Church with a Big Mac, and sat and consumed it in the pew before Mass, I’m virtually certain that they’d refuse to serve me Communion because I had broken the fast.
And yet Nancy Pelosi, who has been in Congress since 1987, and during all that time has never found an abortion that she would not vote for, can just stroll right on up.
Makes no sense to me.
There’s a surprise, eh? Couldn’t see that coming. Nope.
I’m praying for the Church. Praying that she will be rescued from this pope.
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