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Bishop warns against ‘weaponization of Eucharist’ with elected officials
A priest gives the Eucharist to a communicant during a Mass at St. Agnes Cathedral in Rockville Centre, N.Y., in 2020. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
By Mark Pattison • Catholic News Service • Posted February 5, 2021
WASHINGTON (CNS) Bishop Robert W. McElroy of San Diego warned against the “weaponization of Eucharist” as a way to get Catholic elected officials, President Joe Biden among them, to adhere to the church’s stance on abortion.
“I do not see how depriving the president or other political leaders of Eucharist based on their public policy stance can be interpreted in our society as anything other than the weaponization of Eucharist and an effort not to convince people by argument and by dialogue and by reason, but, rather, to pummel them into submission on the issue,” Bishop McElroy said.
US Bishop warns against weaponization of Eucharist with elected officials
Bishop Robert W. McElroy warned against the weaponization of the Eucharist as a way to get Catholic elected officials
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Bishop Robert W. McElroy of San Diego warned against the weaponization of Eucharist as a way to get Catholic elected officials, President Joe Biden among them, to adhere to the church s stance on abortion. I do not see how depriving the president or other political leaders of Eucharist based on their public policy stance can be interpreted in our society as anything other than the weaponization of Eucharist and an effort not to convince people by argument and by dialogue and by reason, but, rather, to pummel them into submission on the issue, Bishop McElroy said.