McGreevey Forbidden from receiving communion

[Brambila]

We've had this debate before. The church has every right to decide who they want to give communion to, and if a person is in sin, or is against church doctrine, you can't recieve communion- easy as that.

As i've stated before, Communion in it's own meaning means you must be 100% in communion with the church- we're all in the community of Christ's body. But if somebody doesn't believe in something, he's not in Christ's body, and therefore cannot participate in communion.

Fortunately, John Kerry did NOT recieve communion in a Catholic Church, but a reformed heretical "catholic" church, which was more similar to a liberal lutheran or anglican church.

[Brambila]

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You're not Catholic if you believe that. That's actually heresy you're saying.

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Yes he is. If he doesn't like something the church says and so simply goes against it, he's against the church, and therefore not in communion. He's heretical.

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Yes, Rudy Giuliani isn't truly a Catholic, and neither are most nominal Catholics today.

And yes, being pro-choice is very much so a sin. Being pro-choice is equally as bad as being pro-holocaust.

[Brambila]

Well, yes. You cannot deny sacraments to CATHOLICS, but Kerry is not Catholic; he's excommunicated (anyone who supports abortion with full knowledge of Chruch teachings is automatically).

[Brambila]

The Catholic Church doesn't have an opinion on the Death Penalty. The Pope has an opinion,  but it's non-doctrinal. Many Cardinals are pro-death penalty.

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A good 10 million of the children killed by abortion feel pain.

But is something really not bad if they don't feel pain? "Oh, as long as they don't feel it, it's okay!"

That is DISGUSTING.

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Russian Orthodox are in the KATHOLICOS community, even though they are not in communion with the Pope. Meaning, they have apostolic authority to do their stuff, but they disagree that Peter is the head of the Church. The Catholic Church allows Orthodox to recieve communion at a Catholic mass whenever they want, but a Catholic must ask the Orthodox priest if they want to recieve communion.

[Brambila]

That's not true. Some Eastern Rite Catholics are joined in communion with the Church- these include the Byzantine "Greek" Catholics, the Byzantine "Ukranian" Catholics, Armenian Catholics, Assyrian Catholic Church of the East, Chaldean Catholics, Syro-Malabar Catholics (st. Thomas Christians), and dozens of others. However, the Russian Orthodox, the Ukrainian Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox, and several others are NOT in full communion with Rome. They accept that the Pope is the patriach of the Church of Peter, and the successor of him, but they don't believe he has supremecy over the other aposotlic successors. Nonetheless, they are still allowed to recieve communion since they ARE in apostolic succession.