Tribulation Times
(Eze 34:7-10) Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: As I live, saith the Lord God, forasmuch as my flocks have been made a spoil, and my sheep are become a prey to all the beasts of the field, because there was no shepherd: for my shepherds did not seek after my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flocks: Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I myself come upon the shepherds, I will require my flock at their hand, and I will cause them to cease from feeding the flock any more, neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more: and I will deliver my flock from their mouth, and it shall no more be meat for them.
Diocese Repudiates SC Priest Who Said Catholic Obama Supporters Need Penance Before Communion
Father Jay Scott Newman, pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Greenville, SC, has told Catholics who voted for President-elect Obama that they need to seek penance before they take Communion, "lest they eat and drink their own condemnation," Newman wrote in a church newsletter, alluding to I Corinthians: "For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body [of the Lord] eats and drinks judgment on himself."
In a newsletter posted on the church website -- but since taken down -- Father Newman wrote that "Voting for a pro-abortion politician when a plausible pro-life alternative exits constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil, and those Catholics who do so place themselves outside of the full communion of Christ's Church and under the judgment of divine law. Persons in this condition should not receive Holy Communion until and unless they are reconciled to God in the Sacrament of Penance, lest they eat and drink their own condemnation."
Via email the Greenville News interviewed Father Newman, who expressed chagrin at a recent poll indicating that fewer than 25% of American Catholics attend Mass every Sunday.
"Newman calls abortion the 'chief battleground' in the so-called culture wars, and different from 'prudential' matters such as health care, education or the war on terror," wrote the News. "A Catholic who gets an abortion, encourages one or assists in the procedure is automatically excommunicated from the church, Newman said, a penalty he said doesn't apply to other forms of killing. 'The reason is that abortion is usually murder in secret and it lays axe to human life at its root,' he said. With nearly 50 million abortions since Roe v. Wade, Newman said Obama would seek to make 'hidden murder' a legally protected right, and anyone who voted to give him such power 'will be complicit in the legal holocaust which will follow.'"
But in an unusual move, Monsignor Martin T. Laughlin, Administrator of the Diocese of Charleston, SC, has issued a statement and video repudiating Father Newman.
"This past week, the Catholic Church's clear, moral teaching on the evil of abortion has been pulled into the partisan political arena," wrote Msgr. Laughlin. "The recent comments of Father Jay Scott Newman, pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Greenville, S.C., have diverted the focus from the Church's clear position against abortion. As Administrator of the Diocese of Charleston, let me state with clarity that Father Newman's statements do not adequately reflect the Catholic Church's teachings. Any comments or statements to the contrary are repudiated."
LIFESITE: Bishops React to Priest who Told Obama-Supporting Catholics to Confess before Receiving Communion
CNA: Local priests support S.C. pastor in trouble over misreported communion ban
ON RECONCILIATION
Examen of Conscience by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.
Father Pat's Reconciliation Page
Homily: "They Confessed Their Sins"
Prayer request? Send an email to: PrayerRequest3@aol.com
READ THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: http://www.oneyearbibleonline.com/november.asp?version=63&startmmdd=0101
(Eze 34:7-10) Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: As I live, saith the Lord God, forasmuch as my flocks have been made a spoil, and my sheep are become a prey to all the beasts of the field, because there was no shepherd: for my shepherds did not seek after my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flocks: Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I myself come upon the shepherds, I will require my flock at their hand, and I will cause them to cease from feeding the flock any more, neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more: and I will deliver my flock from their mouth, and it shall no more be meat for them.
Diocese Repudiates SC Priest Who Said Catholic Obama Supporters Need Penance Before Communion
Father Jay Scott Newman, pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Greenville, SC, has told Catholics who voted for President-elect Obama that they need to seek penance before they take Communion, "lest they eat and drink their own condemnation," Newman wrote in a church newsletter, alluding to I Corinthians: "For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body [of the Lord] eats and drinks judgment on himself."
In a newsletter posted on the church website -- but since taken down -- Father Newman wrote that "Voting for a pro-abortion politician when a plausible pro-life alternative exits constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil, and those Catholics who do so place themselves outside of the full communion of Christ's Church and under the judgment of divine law. Persons in this condition should not receive Holy Communion until and unless they are reconciled to God in the Sacrament of Penance, lest they eat and drink their own condemnation."
Via email the Greenville News interviewed Father Newman, who expressed chagrin at a recent poll indicating that fewer than 25% of American Catholics attend Mass every Sunday.
"Newman calls abortion the 'chief battleground' in the so-called culture wars, and different from 'prudential' matters such as health care, education or the war on terror," wrote the News. "A Catholic who gets an abortion, encourages one or assists in the procedure is automatically excommunicated from the church, Newman said, a penalty he said doesn't apply to other forms of killing. 'The reason is that abortion is usually murder in secret and it lays axe to human life at its root,' he said. With nearly 50 million abortions since Roe v. Wade, Newman said Obama would seek to make 'hidden murder' a legally protected right, and anyone who voted to give him such power 'will be complicit in the legal holocaust which will follow.'"
But in an unusual move, Monsignor Martin T. Laughlin, Administrator of the Diocese of Charleston, SC, has issued a statement and video repudiating Father Newman.
"This past week, the Catholic Church's clear, moral teaching on the evil of abortion has been pulled into the partisan political arena," wrote Msgr. Laughlin. "The recent comments of Father Jay Scott Newman, pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Greenville, S.C., have diverted the focus from the Church's clear position against abortion. As Administrator of the Diocese of Charleston, let me state with clarity that Father Newman's statements do not adequately reflect the Catholic Church's teachings. Any comments or statements to the contrary are repudiated."
LIFESITE: Bishops React to Priest who Told Obama-Supporting Catholics to Confess before Receiving Communion
CNA: Local priests support S.C. pastor in trouble over misreported communion ban
ON RECONCILIATION
Examen of Conscience by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.
Father Pat's Reconciliation Page
Homily: "They Confessed Their Sins"
Ladder of Divine Ascent excerpt: Step 11- "On talkativeness and silence"
3. Intelligent silence is the mother of prayer, a recall from captivity, preservation of fire, an overseer of thoughts, a watch against enemies, a prison of mourning, a friend of tears, effective remembrance of death, a depicter of punishment, a delver into judgment, a minister of sorrow, an enemy of freedom of speech, a companion of stillness, an opponent of desire to teach, increase of knowledge, a creator of divine vision, unseen progress, secret ascent.Prayer request? Send an email to: PrayerRequest3@aol.com
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