Is Biden Fit for Communion?
Thursday, November 06, 2008 4:32 PM
The sign of peace isn't the problem. (UPI)
Some Catholic blogs are reporting that last Sunday, Vice President-elect Joe Biden received Communion while attending Mass in Tallahassee, Fla.
In response to the incident, Bishop John Ricard of Pensecola-Tallahassee, Fla., has posted a letter to Biden — written in a spirit of “urgency” — on his diocese’s website.
Bishop Ricard’s message to the pro-abortion Veep-elect: Search your... READ MORE
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Communion and Voting
Monday, November 17, 2008 5:37 PM
Father Jay Scott Newman (CNS)
Father Jay Scott Newman has generated national discussion of the issue of voting for Barack Obama and receiving Communion.
Father Newman, pastor of St. Mary’s Church in Greenville, S.C., said in his parish’s Nov. 9 bulletin that Catholics who voted for Obama, despite being aware of his pro-abortion platform, needed to repent and go to Confession before receiving Communion again.
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Voting and Communion Update
Wednesday, November 26, 2008 10:43 AM
Father Dwight Longenecker
Looking for more information, from a reliable source, about Father Jay Scott Newman’s comments that parishioners who voted for Barack Obama needed to repent before receiving Communion?
Look no further. Father Dwight Longenecker, who is based at the same parish, discusses the matter in the Register’s Nov. 30 issue. Read it here.
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Repenting an Obama Vote
Monday, December 01, 2008 10:06 AM
Father Joseph Illo
Another pastor has recommended that some Catholics who voted for President-elect Barack Obama should go to confession before receiving Communion.
In a homily to parishioners and in a follow-up letter, Father Joseph Illo, pastor of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Modesto, Calif., suggested that voting for pro-abortion politicians with a clear understanding of their pro-abortion stance... READ MORE
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Canizares on Communion
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 5:54 PM
A girl kneels to receive Communion from the Pope. (CNS)
“What does it mean to receive Communion in the mouth? What does it mean to kneel before the Most Holy Sacrament? What does it mean to kneel during the consecration at Mass?”
Those are the questions posed by Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera, the new prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, in an interview published on Sunday by the Spanish daily La Razón.
Here’s how the... READ MORE
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