--- On Thu, 11/26/09, Gabe Menezes <[email protected]> wrote: > COMMENT: What about divorced and remarried people? Are they > barred from the sacraments?
Hi Gabe, Kennedy is being denied communion for supporting a pro-choice public policy, not for ever having aborted a baby with his partner/wife. Mere support for public policy is being justified. Why aren't the Bishops supporting a policy of denying communion where innocent life in taken in illegal and immoral wars, or even moral and legal wars for that matter. There is a danger that the communion-denial policy can be used as a political tool. And if Kennedy is being denied communion for support of pro-choice, why should Cardinal Law (Boston) not be denied communion for his protection of priests who molested innocent children. What about the guilty priests too who ACTUALLY committed a crime? Shouldn't they be denied communion? Should the Pope be denied communion for protecting Cardinal Law by moving him to Rome in a deal to save him from prosecution and the embarrassment to the Boston Catholic community, including Catholic prosecutors? It is mind-boggling that some US Bishops think denying sacraments is their prerogative (if I remember correctly Christ forgave sinners). George
