Another Roman Archbishop Rules: Biden Should Skip Communion

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Catholic Bishop: Pro-Abortion VP Candidate Joe Biden Should Skip Communion

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
August 25, 2008
 

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) – A leading Catholic bishop delivered the opening statement of the quadrennial debate over whether or not pro-abortion Catholic politicians should receive communion. Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver says Barack Obama’s running mate Joe Biden should refrain from the sacrament.


Biden is a pro-abortion Catholic and has a long voting record of supporting abortion and opposing any sensible limits on it.

Catholic Bishop: Voting for Obama, Dems Could Place ‘Eternal Salvation of Your Own Soul in Serious Jeopardy’

You cannot support the national program of Genocide on Infants and support same-sex-sodomitic-marriage and still purport to claim the centuries-old title, Christian. If you do, you're self-deceived.  Time for Clergymen to clean-up some membership rosters, exercise discipline by official removal, and refusal of services.  It's time for more Roman bishops to speak as this one has;  this is said without agreeing with Trent, but as a Confessional and historic Anglican.

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Catholic Bishop: Voting for Obama, Dems Could Place ‘Eternal Salvation of Your Own Soul in Serious Jeopardy’

 

Posted on September 28, 2012 at 3:42pm by Billy Hallowell

 

Bishop Thomas John Paprocki from Springfield, Illinois, is getting attention after making some strongly-worded comments about those Americans who opt to vote for President Barack Obama in November. In a column and video that was posted by Catholic Times, the official newspaper of the Diocese of Springfield, Paprocki targeted portions of the Democratic platform that “explicitly endorse intrinsic evils.” He also warned that supporting certain politicians could place peoples’ “eternal salvation…in jeopardy.”

While he noted that it’s not his job to to tell people who do vote for, the faith leader said that he has a duty to speak out about moral issues. Despite his stated problems with the Democratic Party platform — the initial removal of God, its stance abortion and its support of gay marriage – Paprocki spoke relatively favorably of the Republican platform.

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“I have read the Republican Party platform and there is nothing in it that supports or promotes an intrinsic evil or a serious sin,” he proclaimed.

While the bishop didn’t overtly name President Barack Obama as a poor candidate for people of faith to support, he invoked religious themes and warned of spiritual damnation if religious voters stand in support of politicians who “promote actions of behaviors that are intrinsically evil.”

“I am not telling you which party or which candidates to vote for or against. What I am saying is that you need to think and pray very carefully about your vote,” Paprocki said. “Because a vote for a candidate who promotes actions or behaviors that are intrinsically evil and gravely sinful makes you morally complicit and places the eternal salvation of your own soul in serious jeopardy.”

Here’s a portion of the video that was cut and posted by Right Wing Watch:

Here’s a longer version of this address, as published by the Catholic Times: