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7 May 2021
ROME Each bishop must decide whether to allow pro-abortion politicians to receive Holy Communion rather than the U.S. Bishops’ Conference (USCCB), Jesuit Cardinal Michael Czerny said Thursday.
In the midst of debate over a common U.S. policy regarding Communion for President Joe Biden, a Catholic who has actively sought to expand abortion rights and funding, Cardinal Czerny told Religion News Service (RNS) that the USCCB is not the body to make that ruling.
“It’s not up to bishops in general to make these decisions, it’s the bishop of the person,” said Czerny, the undersecretary of the Vatican’s office for Migrants and Refugees.
By Phil Lawler ( bio - articles - email ) | May 03, 2021
With his pastoral letter powerfully reaffirming the importance of the Church’s teaching on the dignity of human life, San Francisco’s Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has issued a serious challenge: to all Catholics, certainly, but to his brother bishops in particular, and especially to the prominent Catholic politicians who support legal abortion notably including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, whose residence is in the San Francisco archdiocese.
“I tremble that if I do not forthrightly challenge Catholics under my pastoral care who advocate for abortion, both they and I will have to answer to God for innocent blood,” writes Archbishop Cordileone. He mentions no names, and he emphasizes that a bishop should admonish a sinner privately before taking any public action. But this pastoral letter cannot be the work of a man who plans to issue one more public statement and leave it at t
Letter #18, 2021, Friday, April 23: Farewell Dmitry Letter #18, 2021, Friday, April 23: Farewell Dmitry
Today I write to tell you about
Dmitry Khafizov.
Dmitry was a man with a large heart, and a larger soul.
A mighty bear of a man… a good and noble man… from the very heart of Russia, from Kazan in Tartarstan… a Christian believer of Russian Orthodox faith… a man who, at the young age of 57, has now gone to his final rest.
Dmitry died on Wednesday, April 21, in his home city of Kazan, the capital of Tartarstan. It is said that his death may have been due to the Covid virus.
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