Dr. Shane Posted November 14, 2008 Posted November 14, 2008 Priest: No communion for Obama supporters 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." ..."Voting for a pro-abortion politician when a plausible pro-life alternative exits 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." ..."It was not an attempt to make a partisan point," Newman said in a telephone interview Thursday. "In fact, in this election, for the sake of argument, if the Republican candidate had been pro-abortion, and the Democratic candidate had been pro-life, everything that I wrote would have been exactly the same." [text taken from link] Quote Pastoral Family Counselor... Find me at www.PostumCafe.com Author of Peculiar Christianity
Woody Posted November 14, 2008 Posted November 14, 2008 Finally someone who can recognize a good Presidential Candidate when they see one. Quote May we be one so that the world may be won. Christian from the cradle to the grave I believe in Hematology.
Amelia Posted November 14, 2008 Posted November 14, 2008 That'a a bunch of meadow muffins. Quote <p><span style="color:#0000FF;"><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">"Do not use harmful words, but only helpful words, the kind that build up and provide what is needed, so that what you say will do good to those who hear you."</span></span> Eph 4:29</span><br><br><img src="http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/gizmotimetemp_both/US/OR/Fairview.gif" alt="Fairview.gif"> Fairview Or</p>
Woody Posted November 14, 2008 Posted November 14, 2008 Amelia ... what is a 'meadow muffin'? Quote May we be one so that the world may be won. Christian from the cradle to the grave I believe in Hematology.
Amelia Posted November 14, 2008 Posted November 14, 2008 Quote <p><span style="color:#0000FF;"><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">"Do not use harmful words, but only helpful words, the kind that build up and provide what is needed, so that what you say will do good to those who hear you."</span></span> Eph 4:29</span><br><br><img src="http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/gizmotimetemp_both/US/OR/Fairview.gif" alt="Fairview.gif"> Fairview Or</p>
Woody Posted November 14, 2008 Posted November 14, 2008 Thank you for your graphic answer. Now I feel dumb. As dumb as a cow chip. Quote May we be one so that the world may be won. Christian from the cradle to the grave I believe in Hematology.
Dr. Shane Posted November 16, 2008 Author Posted November 16, 2008 I would say it comes awfully close to losing its tax-exempt status for comments like that. Quote Pastoral Family Counselor... Find me at www.PostumCafe.com Author of Peculiar Christianity
Moderators Jeannieb43 Posted November 16, 2008 Moderators Posted November 16, 2008 Just today the Catholic hierarchy has revoked that priest's ruling. [read it in the LATimes] Quote Jeannie<br /><br /><br />...Change is inevitable; growth is optional....
Dr. Shane Posted November 16, 2008 Author Posted November 16, 2008 I would think that would have had to if they wanted to avoid problems with the IRS. We have the right to freedom of speech and freedom of worship here but we don't have a right to tax exemption. If a church wants to be tax exempt there are certain rules they have to follow. Quote Pastoral Family Counselor... Find me at www.PostumCafe.com Author of Peculiar Christianity
Moderators Gregory Matthews Posted November 29, 2008 Moderators Posted November 29, 2008 Shane: If the priest had told the people not to vote for Obama before the election the priest might have violated IRS rules. However, the priest did not do that. On November 9, several days after the election, he distributed a letter that told the peole that if they had voted for Obama in the preceeding election, they should not eat the elements of the Mass. That is permissable according to IRS rules. He was not even close to violating them. Under the First Amendment churches are allowed to do exactly that. Quote Gregory
Moderators Gerr Posted December 13, 2008 Moderators Posted December 13, 2008 Thank you for your graphic answer. Now I feel dumb. As dumb as a cow chip. Aren't you glad you didn't ask one for breakfast? Quote
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