U.S. Bishops: Those Who Flout Catholic Moral Teaching Should Not Receive CommunionThomas D. Williams, Ph.D. 18 Nov 2021
The United States bishops released a long-awaited document on worthiness to receive Holy Communion Wednesday, in which they insist that politicians have a particular responsibility to uphold the Church’s moral teachings.
The text, titled “The Mystery of the Eucharist in the Life of the Church,” comes in the wake of months of discussion arising from the anomalous situation of a U.S. president who calls himself Catholic and yet promotes abortion, which the Church considers a grave moral evil.
The reception of Holy Communion entails communion with the Church in both an invisible and a visible dimension, the bishops write, and communion in its visible dimension “entails communion in the teaching of the Apostles, in the sacraments and in the Church’s hierarchical order.”
“Lay people who exercise some form of public authority have a special responsibility to form their consciences in accord with the Church’s faith and the moral law, and to serve the human family by upholding human life and dignity,” the document states.
“If a Catholic in his or her personal or professional life were knowingly and obstinately to reject the defined doctrines of the Church, or knowingly and obstinately to repudiate her definitive teaching on moral issues,” the text states, “he or she would seriously diminish his or her communion with the Church.”
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