Fidei Defensor!

SC Priest: No Communion for Obama Supporters.

By Meg Kinnard, Associated Press Writer

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has told his parishioners that they should refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because the Democratic president-elect supports abortion, and supporting him "constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil."

The Rev. Jay Scott Newman said in a letter distributed Sunday to parishioners at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Greenville that they are putting their souls at risk if they take Holy Communion before doing penance for their vote.

"Our nation has chosen for its chief executive the most radical pro-abortion politician ever to serve in the United States Senate or to run for president," Newman wrote, referring to Obama by his full name, including his middle name of Hussein.

"Voting for a pro-abortion politician when a plausible pro-life alternative exists 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."

"It was not an attempt to make a partisan point," Newman said in a telephone interview Thursday. "In fact, in this election, for the sake of argument, if the Republican candidate had been pro-abortion, and the Democratic candidate had been pro-life, everything that I wrote would have been exactly the same."

See the full story at:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081113/ap_on_re_us/obama_catholics

Que Dieu vous Père Jay Scott Newman,

Défenseur de la Foi !

Comments

[Trubador]

Rocco over at Whispers has a much more on the story (detailed and more accurate) about this here:

http://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com/2008/11/repent-repudiated.html

Seems the AP (surprise, surprise) slanted the story to their own liking.

[Loyolalaw98]

Trubador,

Rocco has a more detailed story, I don't know about accuracy.

Let me explain.

1.) It is true that Fr. Newman said that Catholics who voted for Obama should not receive communion.

2.) He did not say that he would, or could, deny communion to Catholics who voted for Obama.

3.) As usual Rocco allows the backsliders at Fr. Newman's diocese to undercut the true teaching of the Church.

Loy 98

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Never take as gospel anything reported in the secular press about the Catholic Church Go to more reliable websites and magazines whose loyalty to the magisterium is unequivocal.

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