Comments on: Communion as a Political Statement

By: Communion

Communion — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 05:57:31 +0000

I would appreciate it greatly if someone in the archdiocese would continue to monitor both the Catholic and secular press.Jesus taught that if we have un-repented sin in our lives, we need to first get right before God and our fellow man before we can participate in the rituals of the church.

By: Momma Lou

Momma Lou — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 04:09:33 +0000

I totally agree with Truth Unites and Divides.. I am a Catholic. But I couldn’t have said it better.

By: Katie

Katie — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:49:58 +0000

And what does Jacob Wetterling have to do with this?

By: Stuart Koehl

Stuart Koehl — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 09:48:38 +0000

0Who is Jacob Weterling?

By: TXW

TXW — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 04:13:03 +0000

Some relations attend this school. I was told the campus priests were upset about the Bishop.
This is geographically close to where Jacob Weterling disappeared.

By: Stuart Koehl

Stuart Koehl — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 20:08:19 +0000

I’ve always wondered why Catholics who violently disagree with the Church’s fundamental teachings insist they are still “good Catholics” and treat the Eucharist as a right to which they are entitled by their own rectitude. Perhaps it has something to do with Catholicism as a brand (when Gary Wills wrote a self-celebrating book called “Why I am Still a Catholic”, the answer was self-evident: if Wills was a Protestant, nobody would care what he believed), and perhaps it has something with the Church going too far with the “frequent communion” idea.

I don’t know of any Orthodox Christian who, if radically out of sync with the Tradition, would still describe himself as Orthodox, let alone present himself at the Chalice. Moreover, Orthodox bishops (and priests acting as deputed ministers of the Sacrament) are not hesitant about denying the Eucharist to people for a host of reasons, including failure to comply with the ascetic discipline of their particular Church. Nobody blinks an eye at this, and nobody complains. Only Catholics seem to think that a bishop is committing some sort of heinous crime by guarding the Chalice–and this they do not as punishment, but to protect those who approach unworthily, who do so “unto condemnation and death, and not life eternal”.

By: Truth Unites... and Divides

Truth Unites... and Divides — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 19:36:35 +0000

Although I’m not Catholic, I support the Archbishop’s decision to guard the Communion rail.

He’s doing it for a number of reasons, one of them is that folks should not partake of the Lord’s Supper unworthily. Which these protesters are doing.

So it’s for their spiritual benefit that the Archbishop is guarding the rail.