Fasting for Clarity on Abortion

What would happen if pro-Abortion Catholic politicians fasted from the Eucharist during Lent? What if they waited until the Easter Season to receive? As Catholics, the Precepts of the Church require us only to receive the Eucharist during the Easter Season. (Catholic Doctrine also requires us to be in a state of Grace.) So what would happen if pro-Choice Catholics really looked at their views and themselves this Lent and said, "Yes, I will re-examine my thoughts and beliefs on this matter. I will do what is right for God"?

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Of course this would never happen... at least not on its own. But what if the Bishops requested it? What if Bishops actually grew strong during this Lent and sent a letter to these politicians and said,

"Canon 915 requires of me that I withold Communion from those of you that 'obstinately persevere in grave sin' and I don't want to have to do that... so for Lent - Fast from the Eucharist. Prior to Easter we will meet, and go from there."

Again this won't happen. For one, Bishops don't read my blog. Second, why should we think that the weak Bishops actually care about the thoughts and perceptions of their flocks? They allow the liturgical abuses, the modernist mayhem, and the heterodoxical and even heretical teaching that goes on every week in our parishes. Why would they want to make life hard on themselves?

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Sen. Murkowski's own words.

In our Archdiocese, that of Anchorage, we have two senators that are Catholic, one republican and one democrat. Both are pro-Abortion. Canon 915 has not been invoked by Archbishop Schwietz and I don't foresee it happening anytime soon, or really ever. But these Senators continue to come to Mass, and the people continue to be scandalized by it.

I know this idea will never catch on, but what if?

As a woman, and as a mother, I believe that abortion is a very personal issue that must be left to a woman and her physician, and not to elected officials.

It might just make all the difference...



Links:
A Tale of Two Bishops

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