\u2026 I had completely given up on the Catholic Church ever actually enforcing it\u2019s doctrine with regard to most progressive causes, including abortion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So my jaw may have dropped just a little when I saw that archbishop of San Francisco, Salvatore Cordileone, has apparently barred the speaker of the house from communion, more for wrapping her support of abortion in Catholicism as far as being \u201cpro choice\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“A Catholic legislator who supports procured abortion, after knowing the teaching of the Church, commits a manifestly grave sin which is a cause of most serious scandal to others. Therefore, universal Church law provides that such persons \u2018are not to be admitted to Holy Communion,'” he says in the letter\u2026Cordileone says in his letter that he wrote to her on April 7, informing her that “should you not publicly repudiate your advocacy for abortion \u2018rights\u2019 or else refrain from referring to your Catholic faith in public and receiving Holy Communion, I would have no choice but to make a declaration, in keeping with canon 915, that you are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.” He says that since that time, she has not done so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
I have little doubt that there will be a procession of \u201cprogressive\u201d Catholic churches lining up to break the archbishop\u2019s injunction. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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