Reuters AlertNet - Catholics cannot support abortion rights-Vatican
By Philip Pullella
VATICAN CITY, July 7 (Reuters) - The Vatican on Thursday said too many Roman Catholics were not taking their religion seriously and that those faithful who receive communion and still support abortion rights were behaving scandalously.
In an 88-page working document for a synod of bishops to be held in October, the Vatican also decried dwindling attendance at Sunday Mass and reaffirmed a rule that Catholics who divorce and remarry outside the Church cannot take communion.
The document on the theme of the Eucharist said many Catholics had lost the sense of the sacred surrounding communion, which the Church teaches becomes the body and blood of Christ during the Mass.
One part of the document returned to an issue that remains particularly hot in the United States -- whether Catholics who support abortion rights can receive communion.
'Some receive communion while denying the teachings of the Church or publicly supporting immoral choices in life, such as abortion, without thinking that they are committing an act of grave personal dishonesty and causing scandal,' it said.
'Some Catholics do not understand why it might be a sin to support a political candidate who is openly in favour of abortion or other serious acts against life, justice and peace,' it said."
Unfortunately, these are issues that even Roman Catholics are in need of reminding. A timely instruction from the Vatican in light of the one and possibly two new justices to be nominated and confirmed to the Supreme Court. There are CINO senators such as Teddy Kennedy and John F. Kerry who have long ago dropped their faith along the roadside in the name of political expediency. We can only pray and hope that ones such as these will read and take to heart this and other similar instructions from our Church if not for their own good, then for the good of their their constituents.
Reuters AlertNet - Catholics cannot support abortion rights-Vatican:
VATICAN CITY, July 7 (Reuters) - The Vatican on Thursday said too many Roman Catholics were not taking their religion seriously and that those faithful who receive communion and still support abortion rights were behaving scandalously.
In an 88-page working document for a synod of bishops to be held in October, the Vatican also decried dwindling attendance at Sunday Mass and reaffirmed a rule that Catholics who divorce and remarry outside the Church cannot take communion.
The document on the theme of the Eucharist said many Catholics had lost the sense of the sacred surrounding communion, which the Church teaches becomes the body and blood of Christ during the Mass.
One part of the document returned to an issue that remains particularly hot in the United States -- whether Catholics who support abortion rights can receive communion.
'Some receive communion while denying the teachings of the Church or publicly supporting immoral choices in life, such as abortion, without thinking that they are committing an act of grave personal dishonesty and causing scandal,' it said.
'Some Catholics do not understand why it might be a sin to support a political candidate who is openly in favour of abortion or other serious acts against life, justice and peace,' it said."
Unfortunately, these are issues that even Roman Catholics are in need of reminding. A timely instruction from the Vatican in light of the one and possibly two new justices to be nominated and confirmed to the Supreme Court. There are CINO senators such as Teddy Kennedy and John F. Kerry who have long ago dropped their faith along the roadside in the name of political expediency. We can only pray and hope that ones such as these will read and take to heart this and other similar instructions from our Church if not for their own good, then for the good of their their constituents.
Reuters AlertNet - Catholics cannot support abortion rights-Vatican:
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