{"id":568195,"date":"2021-06-18T16:21:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T20:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=568195"},"modified":"2021-06-18T16:21:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T20:21:52","slug":"catholic-democrats-issue-statement-of-principles-demanding-bishops-allow-abortion-supporters-to-receive-communion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/catholic-democrats-issue-statement-of-principles-demanding-bishops-allow-abortion-supporters-to-receive-communion\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Democrats Issue \u2018Statement Of Principles\u2019 Demanding Bishops Allow Abortion Supporters To Receive Communion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcatholic-democrats-issue-statement-of-principles-demanding-bishops-allow-abortion-supporters-to-receive-communion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=568195&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Pelosi-1-1.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Sixty Catholic Democrats from the House and Senate issued a \u201cstatement of principles\u201d to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on Friday, demanding that the Conference, when drafting its document on the Eucharist due out later this year, not prohibit Catholic politicians who openly support abortion from receiving Communion despite being in open defiance of Church teachings.<\/p>\n<p>The shocking letter addresses what the sixty Democrats claim is \u201cthe weaponization of the Eucharist to Democratic lawmakers for their support of a woman\u2019s safe and legal access to abortion,\u201d suggesting that to deny Communion to legislators who openly support abortion is \u201ccontradictory\u201d to the Church\u2019s mission.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.7915492957746\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: 60 Catholic Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives issued a &#8220;Statement of Principles&#8221; with a message to U.S. bishops that &#8220;the weaponization of the Eucharist to Democratic lawmakers for their support of a woman\u2019s safe and legal access to abortion is contradictory&#8221;. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IeR3gSbzDJ\">pic.twitter.com\/IeR3gSbzDJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Catherine Hadro (@CatSzeltner) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CatSzeltner\/status\/1405960359081566209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the nearly two page letter, federal legislators claim that they \u201cwork every day to advance respect for life and the dignity of every human being\u201d and that they \u201cagree with the Catholic Church about the value of human life\u201d despite openly supporting policies that allow for and encourage the destruction of unborn children.<\/p>\n<p>They then ask the Church for the ability to follow their \u201cconsciences\u201d and to argue that by supporting comprehensive government programs, \u201chelping the poor, disadvantaged, and the oppressed, protecting the least among them\u201d that they are qualified to receive the Eucharist despite being in open dissent from Church teachings. They quote Pope Francis on the importance of receiving Communion and then cite the \u201cseparation of Church and State,\u201d though the Catholic Church is a separate entity that can create and enforce its own rules on adherents of the Catholic religion.<\/p>\n<p>To close the letter, the group suggests that other politicians who support policies they believe to be in opposition to Catholic social teachings have not been similarly punished, noting that \u201cno elected officials have been threatened with being denied the Eucharist as they support and have supported policies contrary to the Church teachings, including supporting the death penalty, separating migrant children from their parents, denying asylum to those seeking safety in the United States, limiting assistance for the hungry and food insecure, and denying rights and dignity to immigrants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The issue, however, is that support for abortion is not merely a disagreement with either the Catholic Church or the Democratic party platform. Abortion is viewed by the Catholic Church as a great moral evil, and it is to be opposed across the board. Although the Church has a stance on the death penalty, and assisting the poor, oppressed, and those who seek asylum, the Church does not view a disagreement on how best to serve these individuals as a grave moral evil on part with public and open support for killing the unborn. Although \u201cCanonical punishments\u201d have been on the table for those who supported, for example, the family separation policy during the Trump administration, support for such a policy does not rise to the same level of concern for the church as unfettered support for abortion.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the document, the group pledges to interfere in the bishops\u2019 drafting and approval of the document, apparently in violation of their \u201cseparation of church and state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe solemnly urge you to not move forward and deny this most holy of all sacraments, the source and the summit of the whole work of the gospel over one issue,\u201d the lawmakers noted. \u201cTo pursue a blanket denial of the Holy Eucharist to certain elected officials would indeed grieve the Holy Spirit and deny the evolution of that individual, a Christian person who is never perfect, but living in the struggle to get there\u2026as such, we have a claim on the Church\u2019s bearing as it does on ours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty Catholic Democrats from the House and Senate issued a \u201cstatement of principles\u201d to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on Friday, demanding that the Conference, when drafting its &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280725,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Pelosi-1-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Catholic Democrats Issue \u2018Statement Of Principles\u2019 Demanding Bishops Allow Abortion Supporters To Receive Communion","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Pelosi-1-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Catholic Democrats Issue \u2018Statement Of Principles\u2019 Demanding Bishops Allow Abortion Supporters To Receive Communion","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}