Comment from UTT:
The following article affirms the Roman Catholic position that someone of the Roman Catholic faith who has divorced and or re-married cannot participate in the sacrament of the Eucharist - the most important sacrament according to Roman Catholicism.
While the Bible does condemn divorce, there are certain parameters that allow for divorce as a last resort in order to dissolve a marriage.
While our position is not to condone divorce, it seems that Roman Catholic priests, cardinals and bishops are somewhat hypocritical in their declaration that those who have divorced cannot not partake of the sacrament of the Eucharist. It is common knowledge that thousands of Roman Catholic officials have been involved in the act of pedophilia while they were supposed to be holy priests and conduits used by God to turn a wafer into the supposed presence of Jesus Christ known as the sacrament of the Eucharist and offered as an "unbloody sacrifice for sins."
So here is the question - where does the standard of truth that the Roman Catholic Church pretends to promote and maintain, begin and end? If it is not possible for an ordinary person to participate in the sacrament of the Eucharist because of a particular sin, how is it possible for a priest to participate in the transubstantiation process if they have also sinned?
Perhaps the Roman Catholic leadership should be more consistent!
June 24 - Cardinal Bagnasco: Impossible for divorced and remarried to receive Communion
Article: Roman Catholic Church And The Last Days
Rome, Jun 24, 2008 / 10:19 am (CNA).- The Archbishop of Genoa and President of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, said this week
the impossibility of divorced and remarried Catholics receiving Communion “does not depend on an external disposition but rather comes from the interior of the sacrament of the Eucharist itself, the sacrament of the perennial unity between the love of Christ and humanity.”Cardinal Bagnasco pointed to the example of Catholics who are separated and who “suffer from this difficult situation, but nonetheless live in fidelity to the indissolubility of the sacrament and desire to meet and pray together, to exchange experiences and encourage one another.” This situation “is one of the ways in which the maternity of the Church is expressed,” he added.
The cardinal's comments also come in the context of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's public campaign to push for allowing divorced and remarried Catholics to receive Communion. Berlusconi is himself divorced and remarried.
Catholic teaching says that Catholics cannot ignore Jesus' teaching that the faithful cannot divorce and remarry. The Church teaches that for the good of their souls, believers should not present themselves for Communion, when they have departed from the teachings of Jesus.
