Excellence. I like the way it's worded, i.e., stop throwing the match on a soul who has doused himself with gasoline.
What kind of a shepherd would knowingly feed your cancer?
I just don't get it.
Giving a defiant soul the Blessed Sacrament is a thousand times worse than bringing the watermelon twist vodka to the AA picnic or dropping by a pedophile's house with a handful of Penthouse.
Bishop Martino, like many others, has a politician who is calling himself prolife while being an accessory to thousands of abortions every year. Nonsense that's misled hundred of thousands, if not millions.
Therefore, His Excellency, the Most Reverend Joseph F. Martino, Bishop of Scranton, reminds all ministers of Holy Communion, ordinary and extraordinary, that:
1. To administer the Sacred Body and Blood of the Lord is a serious duty which they have received from the Church, and no one having accepted this responsibility has the right to ignore the Church’s law in this regard;
2. Those whose unworthiness to receive Holy Communion is known publicly to the Church must be refused Holy Communion in order to prevent sacrilege and to prevent the Catholic in question from committing further grave sin through unworthy reception.The official notice does not mention any individual by name. However it is impossible to overlook the fact that on the same day, February 26, the Scranton diocese also posted an open letter from Bishop Martino of Pennsylvania Senator Robert Casey, in which the bishop-- for the second time-- reminded the Catholic lawmaker of his moral obligation "to oppose abortion and other clear evils." [See today's separate CWN headline storyon the bishop's letter.]
Earlier in the month, in a first rebuke to Senator Casey, Bishop Martino had warned that the senator's vote against an extension of the Mexico City policy-- which prohibited US taxpayer funding of abortion advocacy abroad-- was a violation of the legislator's moral obligation. “Your failure to reverse this vote will regrettably mean that you persist formally in cooperating with the evil brought about by this hideous and unnecessary policy,” the bishop wrote.
The February 26 notice from the Scranton diocese notes that the #915 of the Code of Canon Law instructs Eucharistic ministers not to administer the Blessed Sacrament to Catholics "who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin." [emphasis added] The official notice goes on to quote then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, in his 2004 message to the bishops of the United States:
Regarding the grave sin of abortion or euthanasia, when a person’s formal cooperation becomes manifest (understood, in the case of a Catholic politician, as his consistently campaigning and voting for permissive abortion and euthanasia laws), his Pastor should meet with him, instructing him about the Church’s teaching, informing him that he is not to present himself for Holy Communion until he brings to an end the objective situation of sin, and warning him that he will otherwise be denied the Eucharist.
Those whose unworthiness to receive Holy Communion is known publicly to the Church must be refused Holy Communion in order to prevent sacrilege and to prevent the Catholic in question from committing further grave sin through unworthy reception.
Oh, to be a fly on the wall of the games being played.
I don't know what must means.
Do you know what must means?
Let's form a Committee.
Where's McCarrick?
The fact that Cardinals, Priests and Bishops find passive/aggressive ways to do whatever they want when a teaching is so clear has personally caused me and many others grave scandal.
The scandal manifests in a myriad of ways, but ultimately, if a shepherd has total disregard for the word "must", I have zero confidence that priest gives a rat's patoot about Transubstantiation.
If he believed, he wouldn't cause further injury to a defiant soul by bolstering the spiritual rebellion with the highest form of sacrilege humanly possible. If he believes in the spiritual dimensions and the internal battle for the soul - he just wouldn't be an accessory to that kind sacrilege any more than he would empty the Ciborium into a sewer.
I'm supposed to believe a Cardinal, Bishop, Priest gives credence to the word "must" is when it's in the context of he must Transubstantiate as he's has lied and defied the word "must"?
They are not ignorant of the spiritual consequences that would rain down on their head if they walked out of the Sanctuary and emptied the Ciborium into a sewer. It would be their worst nightmare - but they willingly do it to another person.
No, someone who would do that is neither a believer in Transubstantiation, the Sacraments or Salvation and it's time to shake the dust off your shoes and find one who does. God has not left us orphaned.
We have a few handfuls of Bishops in the United States and a handful in each diocese, praise be to Jesus Christ now and forever.
