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Friday, November 14, 2008

Can Obama voters receive communion?

It looks like a priest in South Carolina has gotten a bit out in front of the bishops conference on the subject of voting for a pro-choice candidate.  An excerpt from Fr. Jay Scott Newman's letter to his congregation:

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.

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