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...instead of taking himself off for seminary training, Murray embarked on a long-distance diploma in theology. "Five years and 25,000 km of travel" later, he became one of Australia's first priests ordained under the Anglican Church's Ministering Communities program. Today Murray holds communion services, prepares families for confirmation and advises the Esperance parish on educational issues - all for no salary - alongside a volunteer army of pastoral care and social justice coordinators. His church might be in Coomalbidgup or Condingup one week, a farmer's lounge room the next. "What we are talking about is a revolution...
...Unfit for the Sacrament? As a devout roman catholic, I am deeply troubled by the declaration of some American Catholic bishops that pro-life politicians who vote against church teachings on abortion should be denied Communion [June 21]. The conservative political undercurrent is painfully obvious. Taking Communion is a highly personal and profound experience. To politicize it for any reason is shameful. George Nessman Walnut Creek...
...less sinful to send a 20-year-old soldier off to fight in a war than to support abortion. It is hypocritical for any of us, bishops or lay people, to think the soul of an unborn is more important than any other soul. If Communion can be denied those who support a woman's right to choose abortion, then, using the same logic, Communion should also be denied those who support the war in Iraq-a war the Pope has criticized. Barry Estill Romeo...
...will counsel Catholic public officials that their acting consistently to support abortion on demand risks making them cooperators in evil in a public manner." U.S. CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS, in a statement that allows individual bishops to deny Communion to politicians who support abortion...
...Andrew Sullivan's essay "Showdown At The Communion Rail" [May 24]: As a Roman Catholic, I was appalled to learn that some bishops would actually withhold Communion from believers because of their views on abortion. One would hope that the upper echelons of the church hierarchy would have learned tolerance by now and ceased engaging in petty political machinations. Has the church come to terms with the numerous allegations of sexual abuse of young boys by priests? Is it possible that all priests who are giving or taking Communion are without sin? I think not. Withholding a sacrament from...