{"id":7003,"date":"2006-06-19T09:54:05","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T09:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/on-catholic-pols-and-communion.html"},"modified":"2006-06-19T09:54:05","modified_gmt":"2006-06-19T09:54:05","slug":"on-catholic-pols-and-communion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/on-catholic-pols-and-communion.html","title":{"rendered":"On Catholic Pols and Communion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patrick Brennan at Mirror of Justice comments:<\/a><\/p>\n

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The website of the USCCB doesn’t yet report what the media are celebrating.  (The aforementioned website does already include news of the Conference’s denunciation of U.S. immigration policy and of the Conference’s approval of the revised translation of the liturgy).  The Cardinal and his collaborators have decided, after years of reflection and study and consultation, that they don’t have much or anything at all to say on the question of Holy Communion and public figures who cause scandal to the faithful.  The Conference has so very much to say on so very many topics, on which the pastors are not by ordination expert, but nothing or very little on "the source and summit" of the life of the Church as it concerns public figures who scandalize the people of God. (The worried voted in favor of the revised translations of the liturgy hardly shows the bishops as great shepherds of the Church’s sacramental tradition.  On this issue, they were most concerned lest the faithful be shocked or challenged).  I’m not sure what I think the Conference should have said on the communion-to-Kerry-at-the-cathedral-during-election-season question; I’m just sure that, given their proclivity for saying things, this long-pondered silence is signal. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Brennan is Professor of Law at Villanova<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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