Topic: Pro-Abortion Catholic Politicians Receiving Communion by Patres Fidelium Christi (PFC)
Statement:
Nobody who is obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin should be given
Holy Communion. But pro-abortion politicians are obstinately persevering in
manifest grave sin for, by being politicians, their support of abortion — the
murder of babies in the womb — is an extremely grave sin, and it is publicly
manifest. Moreover, they do so in a manner that is obstinate to the clear
teachings of the Church, and they persevere in this; thus, they are obstinately
persevering in manifest grave sin. Thus, again, nobody who publicly supports
abortion should be given Holy Communion.
Justification:
Greetings in the Lord to the faithful of Christ and His Holy Church. The
greatest evil, at least on the natural level, in our world today is, by far,
the massive slaughter of God’s children in the womb through abortion. With each
abortion, an innocent child’s life is snuffed out, and, with legalized
abortion, the number of these murders of children in the womb is mind-numbing
(an estimated 50 million children murdered by abortion throughout the world
each year — over 100,000 daily!) For good reason, then, does the Catechism
of the Catholic Church call this sin an “abominable crime.” With each abortion,
not only is an innocent baby’s life ended but, along with that, many other
lives are deeply devastated: We priests know all too well the indescribably
deep pain inflicted on the hearts and souls of the mothers and fathers of these
children (to whom our hearts go out with deep fatherly affection) as well as so
many others wounded by this horrible scourge, a scourge that is of — or beyond
— biblical proportions. “Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their
daughters unto devils and shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and
of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: And the land
was polluted with blood” (Psalm 106: 37–38).
With all this in mind concerning the absolute horror and injustice of abortion,
we, the PFC and our supporting clergy, want the faithful to know that Catholic
politicians who publicly support this mass murder of God’s
children ought not be given Our Lord’s Body and Blood in Holy Communion! For,
by publicly supporting abortion, such politicians are contributing to the
shedding of the blood of many children, precious children for whom Our Lord
shed His Blood, that same Blood that is received in Holy
Communion. Concerning the unworthy reception of Holy Communion, i.e., the
reception of Holy Communion in a state of mortal sin, the Apostle Paul flat out
declares, “He that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh
damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body” (1 Corinthians
11:29). Based on these words of the Apostle, the Church herself, in her Code of
Canon Law (Canon 915) declares that anyone who is “obstinately persevering in
manifest grave sin” (e.g., pro-abortion politicians) is “not to be admitted to
Holy Communion.” Thus, these politicians ought not to be given Holy Communion,
for, in presenting themselves for the sacrament, they are causing scandal to
the faithful and offending Our Eucharistic Lord, who, again, shed that very
Blood of His, present in the Holy Eucharist, for each and every poor, innocent
child who is so very unjustly killed by abortion.
In fact, more than that, we, the PFC, do not understand why these politicians
are not required, under ecclesiastical obedience, by our fathers, the bishops,
to publicly recant and repent from their pro-abortion positions under pain of
receiving a formal, public excommunication should they fail to
do so! Nobody who persists in the support of mass baby-murder (which is what
legalized abortion is) — especially one who does so publicly — has any right to
call himself Catholic! To allow this is to do a disservice to the very names
“Catholic” and “Christian”!
The fact that pro-baby-murder politicians are being permitted to receive Our
Sacred Lord has the potential to undermine both our awareness of the
indescribable evil of this massive child-sacrifice known as legalized abortion,
as well as the indescribable sacredness of the Blessed Sacrament — both truths
we must uphold as Catholics. In the end, the permitting of such politicians to
receive Our Lord amounts, objectively, to a serious lack of charity towards,
first, the children in the womb who, daily, are slaughtered by the tens of
thousands throughout the world and, second, Our Lord Himself, truly present in
the Blessed Sacrament, who is treated in a sacrilegious manner by each and
every one of these public sacrilegious Communions. If these little ones of God
and the Eucharistic Lord Himself are truly loved, how can this
be permitted? It cannot.
So, in the face of such scandalous actions taking place, we, the PFC, urge the
faithful to hold fast to their utter hatred of the evil of abortion (and their
love of those killed by abortion, as well as those so very deeply wounded by
abortion, especially the parents of these children) and to their utter love of
the Blessed Sacrament (and, consequently, to their hatred of anything that
denigrates this Most Holy of Sacraments, such as is taking place with these
publicly scandalous and sacrilegious Communions).
We urgently call upon our spiritual fathers, the bishops, to
stop this horrific and unjust (and uncharitable) scandal, even as we also call
upon these pro-abortion Catholic politicians (most especially our son in the
Lord and in His Church, Joseph Biden) to repent of their sins against, first,
the unborn, and, secondly, against Our Lord Himself (for, to these politicians,
sons and daughters of ours in the Church, we say that, when your lives are
over, you will no longer have power but, rather, will face Our Lord and all His
little ones, and you will then have to give an account of your actions: If you
do not repent, you will face everlasting condemnation; and, so, out of love for
you, our sons and daughters in the Lord and the Church, we call you to
repentance today!)
In Christ,
Patres Fidelium Christi (PFC)