Posted on 06/14/2019 4:51:14 PM PDT by ebb tide
BALTIMORE, June 14, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago defended giving Holy Communion to pro-abortion politicians, saying, “I think it would be counterproductive to impose sanctions, simply because they don’t change anybody’s minds.”
Cardinal Cupich expressed his position in the wake of Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois barring pro-abortion legislators from receiving the sacrament of Holy Communion. Citing canon 915 of the Code of Canon Law, Bishop Paprocki ruled last week that state legislators working to pass Illinois’s new abortion bill may not present themselves for communion in his diocese and that priests are expressly forbidden from giving the Eucharist to both the Senate president and the speaker of the House.
On June 12, Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker, a non-Christian, signed the Illinois Reproductive Health Act (Senate Bill 25) into law, which recognizes abortion as a “fundamental right” while mandating that insurance companies cover abortions. Catholics serving in the Illinois legislature voted in favor of the measure.
While Cupich is opposed to abortion, he told CNA, “I think it would be counterproductive to impose sanctions, simply because they don’t change anybody’s minds, but it also takes away from the fact that an elected official has to deal with the judgment seat of God, not just the judgment seat of a bishop. I think that’s much more powerful.”
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He went on to say, “I have always approached the issue saying that the bishop’s primary responsibility is to teach, and I will continue to do that.”
Bishop Paprocki told LifeSiteNews in a recent interview that he barred the pro-abortion Catholic politicians from receiving Communion because he was concerned about the “salvation of souls.”
“As a shepherd of the Church, I’m concerned for the salvation of their souls,” Paprocki said of the lawmakers, “as well as the salvation of souls who are watching their actions and are scandalized by this.”
“And if we as bishops don’t say anything about it,” he continued, “that just adds to the scandal of people thinking that, “Well, these politicians are doing things that are very immoral and very sinful, and the bishops aren’t saying anything about that. So you know that would make it make it even worse. I just felt an obligation or responsibility to respond to what was going on.”
Both Cupich and Paprocki indicated that they had tried to communicate or had communicated with Senate President John Cullerton and the Speaker of the House Michael Madigan about their problematic positions. “I have conversations with them, and those continue to take place. They have to,” Cupich said, while Paprocki said he spoke to Madigan and wrote to him and Cullerton in advance of the decree.
But I'm going to an ordination of our transitional deacons today, in Knoxville. Our bishop is (---pause long over what to say --- )is, at least, not a wolf and not a jackal, although (---pause over what to say___) He does want all his new clergy to know the TLM and sees that as something that continues into the future. So for this, I thank God.
You will have to deal with it,like it or not.
Sadly it is hardly enforced.
And you’ll just have to deal with Bergoglio’s coddling and protection of homobishops.
All this Pope wants,and I am not a big fan of him,but as the old saying goes”A broken clock is right twice a day”,this Pope was to streamline the anullment process, and to bring healing and peace to families.
Please see post 25. Thank-you.
And you have to deal with the same as in post 24.
Correction: This Pope wants to.
You, like Bergoglio, apparently don’t understand the indissolubility of sacramental marriages.
A nullity is simply a declaration that a sacramental marriage never occurred. Since VC II, it has simply become “catholic” divorce.
Deal with it.
I have some advice for you.
Get out into the real world a bit please. Thank-you.
At least the needed changes help bring healing,peace,and wholeness to families.
Yeah. That was what VC II all about: getting into the world, instead of God’s Kingdom.
Go for it, girl!
At the same time the anullment gives a fresh start because not all marriages are sacramental. That is simply the TRUTH, harsh as it is.
The streamline process is good.
An anullment means there was no marriage to begin with.
Well in the case of anullments, he told “Do your job!”
Why be so harsh?
If they weren’t sacramental marriages, annulments are not needed in the first place.
Don’t you understand that?
Correction: Told the bishops “Do your job!”
What about those who married outside of the Church and later got divorced?
No sacramental marriage there.
Do not go RIGID!
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