Feel free to tell me if this comment is not welcome here, I admit it may be borderline acceptable.
A soup kitchen is the kind of place that gives bread to everyone. I think there is plenty of scriptural evidence that shows us Jesus didn't want the Church to just be a soup kitchen.
We keep hearing about canon 915, which I think would apply to most politicians, but I read a column by George Weigel that brought up canon 1405, arguing that only the Pope can deny a head of state (in this case President Biden) communion. Can you eminent canonists comment on that?
Also, aside from "All Are Welcome" being objectively atrocious from a musical perspective, wasn't that on the list of banned hymns from a USCCB committee a few years ago?
this is the reason for the bread of sincerity, so that one can come to the Bread of Reality...without sincerity the unleaven-ness of humility is absent and the leaven of herod's posion present, one cannot be open to see and hear the truth, and so one gives stones and snakes, not Bread, for the 'food of truth' while committing sacrilege against Him who is the FOOD of TRUTH to Life...the ancient serpent has way to many easy victories....let us pray and fast that all may enter Love and Life!
If one truly believes that non-baptized people should receive Communion, then I believe they might have a fundamental misunderstanding of the actual word. Communion, the word itself, is defined as “an intimate fellowship”. So, how can a person not initiated into the intimate fellowship of the Catholic Church, receive what we believe to be the body and blood of Jesus Christ? Is there any more intimate fellowship than this relationship the baptized Christian has with the Eucharist? Not only do words matter, but faith matters too, and to take a person who has no supernatural faith and offer them the Eucharist without any teaching or explanation is a huge mistake. Really epic mistake. Every group from the Cub Scouts to the League of Women Voters has rules for membership and these are just secular groups. The Catholic Church does not have hard rules for entrance but she does insist on people being educated in the faith and making a fully informed decision about living one’s life as a Catholic. We have rights but we also have responsibilities and I wish that people would take leading someone into a grave sacrilege a little more seriously than the president of “Catholics” for Choice does. I hope this isn’t viewed as to harsh a criticism but truly I wonder what she was thinking when she said that to Mr. Flynn.
I think Mr. Havens is correct in that we do not regard the pre-born as human beings. I hate say it, because I want to believe our Bishops are trying to do the right thing, but if the issue was enslaving African-Americans I believe our Bishops would speak out relentlessly and deny communion to those politicians that supported it; and rightfully so.
Feel free to tell me if this comment is not welcome here, I admit it may be borderline acceptable.
A soup kitchen is the kind of place that gives bread to everyone. I think there is plenty of scriptural evidence that shows us Jesus didn't want the Church to just be a soup kitchen.
I wonder if the people from Bread Not Stones believe that Paul of Tarsus was engaged in right-wing politics in Corinth.
We keep hearing about canon 915, which I think would apply to most politicians, but I read a column by George Weigel that brought up canon 1405, arguing that only the Pope can deny a head of state (in this case President Biden) communion. Can you eminent canonists comment on that?
Also, aside from "All Are Welcome" being objectively atrocious from a musical perspective, wasn't that on the list of banned hymns from a USCCB committee a few years ago?
That storefront Crisis Pregnancy Center, seen right next to the PP in the Men's March photo, gives me hope!
this is the reason for the bread of sincerity, so that one can come to the Bread of Reality...without sincerity the unleaven-ness of humility is absent and the leaven of herod's posion present, one cannot be open to see and hear the truth, and so one gives stones and snakes, not Bread, for the 'food of truth' while committing sacrilege against Him who is the FOOD of TRUTH to Life...the ancient serpent has way to many easy victories....let us pray and fast that all may enter Love and Life!
If one truly believes that non-baptized people should receive Communion, then I believe they might have a fundamental misunderstanding of the actual word. Communion, the word itself, is defined as “an intimate fellowship”. So, how can a person not initiated into the intimate fellowship of the Catholic Church, receive what we believe to be the body and blood of Jesus Christ? Is there any more intimate fellowship than this relationship the baptized Christian has with the Eucharist? Not only do words matter, but faith matters too, and to take a person who has no supernatural faith and offer them the Eucharist without any teaching or explanation is a huge mistake. Really epic mistake. Every group from the Cub Scouts to the League of Women Voters has rules for membership and these are just secular groups. The Catholic Church does not have hard rules for entrance but she does insist on people being educated in the faith and making a fully informed decision about living one’s life as a Catholic. We have rights but we also have responsibilities and I wish that people would take leading someone into a grave sacrilege a little more seriously than the president of “Catholics” for Choice does. I hope this isn’t viewed as to harsh a criticism but truly I wonder what she was thinking when she said that to Mr. Flynn.
Why no mention in this article of Church Militant’s rally taking place adjacent to the hotel where the bishops’ conference is taking place?
I think Mr. Havens is correct in that we do not regard the pre-born as human beings. I hate say it, because I want to believe our Bishops are trying to do the right thing, but if the issue was enslaving African-Americans I believe our Bishops would speak out relentlessly and deny communion to those politicians that supported it; and rightfully so.
"1984": le mot juste I lol'd