Word: communionism
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ESSAY: Andrew Sullivan on abortion, Kerry and Communion...
...simply a rhetorical assertion--and certainly one well within the rights and duties of the bishops. But in the past few years, accelerating fast in recent weeks, orthodox forces have been demanding more stringent action--that pro-choice politicians be not simply publicly reprimanded but barred from receiving Holy Communion, the central, unifying act of Catholic worship...
...deal with homosexuality depends entirely on the purpose of our sexuality. Human sexuality, as we ourselves experience, is an amazingly powerful means of communion. The reason that so many are devastated by extra-maritial sexual relationships is because we misuse and degrade our humanity by trespassing the bounds in which the gift of our sexuality was given. We exchange our inherently human gift, the image in which we were created, for a dark, destructive emptiness. Sexual relationships necessarily involve the communion of the whole person, and many discover first-hand the terrible consequences...
...honestly, in a spirit of love, and with all of humanity in mind. In this spirit, we observe that in our sexuality is found the means for creating our greatest gift—life itself. In it is found the most intimate communion that a man and woman can achieve. For millennia, cultures have protected marriage because they recognized the stability that was afforded by the healthy sexual union of a man and woman. When sex is tragically separated from the union of marriage, however, it is empirically a source of destruction...
...every Catholic who uses birth control or has had a vasectomy or an abortion were denied the sacraments, there would be very few people at the Communion rail on Sunday morning. GRETCHEN W. MARING Ellison...