Word: communionism
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Andrew Sullivan wrote that the Roman Catholic bishops' threat to deny Holy Communion to pro-choice Catholic politicians is harmful to the church [May 24]. It is not the bishops who are hurting the church but Catholic politicians who excuse themselves from the church's moral guidelines while expecting to be treated as Catholics in good standing. One cannot be a good Catholic and still support choice on the issue of abortion. Communion is a statement of unity with Christ and his church. A pro-choice stand is a contradiction of that unity. ALBERT CLERC Houston...
Since the Catholic church also opposes the death penalty, will the bishops deny Communion to politicians and voters who support capital punishment? HECTOR TIMOURIAN Livermore, Calif...
...steel did not search him again, and he remained in such a tacit communion with the fragrance he drank, that he feared to move lest he break it. He could not notice when the air which had soothed him became hot and bitter, or the darkness to which he clung turned into a cage of burning wire...
...Governor of New Jersey, James McGreevey, under intense pressure from his local bishops, declared recently he would no longer receive Communion as a Catholic. A group of bishops headed by Theodore Cardinal McCarrick of Washington is pondering how far to push the issue with Kerry. McCarrick has said he is personally "uncomfortable" with barring public officials from Communion--and that has been the established pastoral practice in the past. But several other bishops have already said they would bar Kerry (and others) from Communion for a pro-choice stance, and the archbishops of Newark, N.J., and Colorado Springs, Colo., have...
...matter. How many of us Catholics are completely worthy every Sunday of receiving what we believe to be the body and blood of Jesus? The church understands this and has long left it up to the individual to wrestle with his or her conscience as to whether going to Communion is appropriate. To turn the tables and make the giving of Communion contingent on a public, political litmus test would politicize a sacred ritual that is and always should be beyond politics...