How is this even still happening? The Los Angeles Archbishop wants to bar Biden from Communion...
My comment first: this is staggering in its arrogance, which even the Vatican seems to recognize, altho they call it divisive (see article).
Under Cardinal Mahoney the usual abuse cover-ups took place, and the usual legal bills piled up. 100 miles North of Los Angeles, a small group of nuns in Santa Barbara ministered to a poor neighborhood for many decades. They lived in a little house among the poor, but being vowed to poverty, did not own the house themselves — the Church, in the person of Mahoney, did. The nuns were rather unceremoniously told to find other accommodations so the house could be sold to help pay legal bills. (When it hit the newspaper, a local convent of Episcopalian nuns said that as these women were their sisters in Christ they could stay with them as long as they needed to.)
Why this? Why now? Why not a word about Trump? The arrogance, the hypocrisy, the patriarchal condescension to women and those who support them.
Once again I thank God or deity of your choice that my mother raised me the way she did, so that even as much as I was attracted to the Church at the age of 13 — 60 years ago! (my beloved Grandmother’s faith) I was never able to make that leap to join in my adolescence. My mind balked. My conscience would not turn itself over to someone else.
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. Tensions rose higher leading up to the bishops’ June meeting, when they overwhelmingly approved a controversial plan to draft a teaching document that could lay the groundwork for denying the sacrament of the Eucharist, also known as the Holy Communion, to Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Catholic politicians who support abortion rights. The head of the bishops’ doctrine committee, which is drafting the still-unfinished document, has repeatedly stressed that the statement isn’t intended to be directed toward any specific Catholic or about any one issue.
Although the bishops’ actions have drawn support from conservative Catholics and anti-abortion activists, they have deeply disturbed some lay Catholics, as well as a faction of bishops who have argued that the step could weaponize the Eucharist and alienate many members of their flocks.
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The Vatican weighed in on the fray through Pope Francis’ top doctrinal official, who in a May 7 letter warned the U.S. bishops that their actions could spawn “discord rather than unity.” The timing of the bishops’ pending statement — they are expected to vote on whether to approve the draft as early as November — could further strain the certain-to-be-fractious 2022 midterm election.
Despite the church’s long-standing public opposition to abortion, more than half of U.S. Catholics — 56% — say that abortion should be legal in all or most cases, according to a Pew Research Center poll. Another Pew poll found that 67% of U.S. Catholics asked about Biden’s views on abortion said they thought the president should be allowed to receive Communion..
In his letter to the American bishops — whom Pope Francis has publicly admonished before — the pope’s top doctrinal officer, Cardinal Luis Ladaria, urged them to have “extensive and serene dialogue” on the topic and warned that it would be misleading to draft a statement that gave the impression that abortion and euthanasia alone were the issues that demand the fullest accountability.
Soon after the vote was made public, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) tweeted at the bishops conference, saying he was a Catholic who supports both contraception and a woman’s right to choose.
“Next time I go to Church,” he tweeted, “I dare you to deny me Communion.”
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every single point, and I totally get what you are experiencing in this context.
well done. 
