PabloSerna said:
"I don't want to go to the table with a gun on the table first," - Cardinal Wilton Gregory
LINK to National Catholic Reporter article
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It seems like different Bishops have different approaches to the same problem - abortion. I think we can all agree that abortion is not the will of God, who formed us in our mother's womb (JER 1:5). Just the same, Jesus said, "Those who are well do not need a physician, but the sick do." (MT 9:12)
First of all the
Pastoral thing to do would be to keep her from further damaging her soul by continuing to receive the blessed sacrament in state that could bring further condemnation to her soul, as taught by scripture and the consistent and infallible teaching of the Church.
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I don't want to go to the table with a gun on the table first," - Cardinal Wilton Gregory
Considering the decades, spent trying to reach out to Nancy and company I would hardly call it coming to the table with a gun first, especially considering the past year Archbishop Cordileone has tried to reach out to her personally and she has refused to speak to him, he also led the faithful to fast and offer rosaries for her conversion of heart. Unfortunately she has turned her back on the Church and is extremely unrepentant. I would call the good Archbishop's effort a last attempt to save her soul.
Got to love the doozy from the National Catholic Distorter.
Fr. Benjamin Hawley, a priest at Holy Trinity, mentioned the back-and-forth over abortion and Communion in his Sunday homily, wrapping his sermon around a theme of God's love. Hawley singled out three things he described as "weapons of mass destruction" that are "destroying our civic and church cultures" exclusion, repression and scorn.
"Inhabitants of these latter cultures think they can solve the challenges of immigration at home, radical Islam abroad, abortion, Latin Mass, Communion for political figures, coastal elites, and many others by excluding, repressing and scorning one group to leave their own group standing perhaps as a white evangelical nation, a smaller, purer church, or coastal elites become national,"
So yeah they are keeping it really not political in the DC diocese.