Members of my family will be especially interested in this, because it concerns a church we attended (albeit, more than 50 years ago). Via Talking Points Memo.
A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has told his parishioners that they should refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because the Democratic president-elect supports abortion, and supporting him "constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil."
The Rev. Jay Scott Newman said in a letter distributed Sunday to parishioners at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Greenville that they are putting their souls at risk if they take Holy Communion before doing penance for their vote.
"Our nation has chosen for its chief executive the most radical pro-abortion politician ever to serve in the United States Senate or to run for president," Newman wrote, referring to Obama by his full name, including his middle name of Hussein.
"Voting for a pro-abortion politician when a plausible pro-life alternative exists constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil, and those Catholics who do so place themselves outside of the full communion of Christ's Church and under the judgment of divine law. Persons in this condition should not receive Holy Communion until and unless they are reconciled to God in the Sacrament of Penance, lest they eat and drink their own condemnation."
Don't you just love the arrogance?
3 comments:
This is exactly why I am a "reformed Catholic". It is the same as being a
reformed alcoholic.
Perhaps this church should lose its
tax exempt status??
For the same reason, I like the expression "recovering Catholic".
When I was received into the Episcopal Church, I stopped being a recovering Catholic and realized I was now recovered.
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