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‘It is a false patience and pastoral concern that … stays silent or speaks in abstractions while the slaughter continues with the full endorsement of Catholic politicians,’ Bishop Thomas Olmsted said
PHOENIX, Arizona, May 11, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix has called for public figures and other self-professed Catholics who promote abortion to be denied Holy Communion.
“Woe to us bishops if we do any Catholic who participates in the act or publicly supports it by word or action,” Olmsted said in a statement on Thursday.
Echoing his recent apostolic exhortation, Venemur Cernui, he suggested that Catholics cannot “publicly disagree with the Church on abortion while continuing to claim their Catholic Faith and receive Our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament.”
The bishop also endorsed a pastoral letterreleased by Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco earlier this month, calling it “a powerful defense of the Church’s teaching on the dignity of all human life, which logically and morally requires a consistent condemnation of abortion.” The letter stresses that pro-abortion Catholics “should not come forward to receive Holy Communion” and that excommunication can serve as a “medicine of last resort” for dissident politicians.
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Another bishop calls for pro-abortion ‘Catholics’ to be denied Communion
PHOENIX, Arizona, May 11, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix has called for public figures and other self-professed Catholics who promote abortion to be denied Holy Communion.
“Woe to us bishops if we do any Catholic who participates in the act or publicly supports it by word or action,” Olmsted said in a statement on Thursday.
Echoing his recent apostolic exhortation, Venemur Cernui, he suggested that Catholics cannot “publicly disagree with the Church on abortion while continuing to claim their Catholic Faith and receive Our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament.”
The bishop also endorsed a pastoral letterreleased by Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco earlier this month, calling it “a powerful defense of the Church’s teaching on the dignity of all human life, which logically and morally requires a consistent condemnation of abortion.” The letter stresses that pro-abortion Catholics “should not come forward to receive Holy Communion” and that excommunication can serve as a “medicine of last resort” for dissident politicians.
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Another bishop calls for pro-abortion ‘Catholics’ to be denied Communion
