Courtesy of 1 Peter 5
O’DONNELL: So, when you say we cannot politicize the communion rail, you would give communion to politicians, for instance, who support abortion rights.
CUPICH: I would not use the Eucharist or as they call it the communion rail as the place to have those discussions or way in which people would be either excluded from the life of the church. The Eucharist is an opportunity of grace and conversion. It’s also a time of forgiveness of sins. So my hope would be that that grace would be instrumental in bringing people to the truth.
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O'DONNELL: So, when you say we cannot politicize the communion rail, you would give communion to politicians, for instance, who support abortion rights?
CANON 915: Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to holy communion.
To be filed under 'Depressing Appointments in the US Church'.
This is so misleading: "The Eucharist is an opportunity of grace and conversion. It’s also a time of forgiveness of sins." Does an Archbishop really need someone to explain to him that if a person is not sorry at all, as evidenced by their public life in terms of voting, that they are not forgiven and that reception of the Holy Eucharist, instead of being an opportunity for grace, becomes an opportunity for their condemnation?
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