[Advisory: I recently received the following contained in an email]
Statement:
Nobody who is obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin should be given Holy Communion. But
pro-abortion politicians are obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin for, by being politicians,
their support of abortion — the murder of babies in the womb — is an extremely grave sin, and it is
publicly manifest. Moreover, they do so in a manner that is obstinate to the clear teachings of the
Church, and they persevere in this; thus, they are obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin. Thus,
again, nobody who publicly supports abortion should be given Holy Communion.
Justification:
Greetings in the Lord to the faithful of Christ and His Holy Church.
The greatest evil, at least on the natural level, in our world today is, by far, the massive slaughter of God’s
children in the womb through abortion. With each abortion, an innocent child’s life is snuffed out, and, with
legalized abortion, the number of these murders of children in the womb is mind-numbing (an estimated 50
million children murdered by abortion throughout the world each year — over 100,000 daily!) For good
reason, then, does the Catechism of the Catholic Church call this sin an “abominable crime.”
With each abortion, not only is an innocent baby’s life ended but, along with that, many other lives are deeply
devastated: We priests know all too well the indescribably deep pain inflicted on the hearts and souls of the
mothers and fathers of these children (to whom our hearts go out with deep fatherly affection) as well as so
many others wounded by this horrible scourge, a scourge that is of — or beyond — biblical
proportions. “Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils and shed innocent blood, even
the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: And the land
was polluted with blood” (Psalm 106: 37–38).
With all this in mind concerning the absolute horror and injustice of abortion, we, the PFC and our supporting
clergy, want the faithful to know that Catholic politicians who publicly support this mass murder of God’s
children ought not be given Our Lord’s Body and Blood in Holy Communion! For, by publicly supporting
abortion, such politicians are contributing to the shedding of the blood of many children, precious children for
whom Our Lord shed His Blood, that same Blood that is received in Holy Communion. Concerning the
unworthy reception of Holy Communion, i.e., the reception of Holy Communion in a state of mortal sin, the
Apostle Paul flat out declares, “He that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to
himself, not discerning the Lord's body” (1 Corinthians 11:29). Based on these words of the Apostle, the
Church herself, in her Code of Canon Law (Canon 915) declares that anyone who is “obstinately persevering
in manifest grave sin” (e.g., pro-abortion politicians) is “not to be admitted to Holy Communion.” Thus, these
politicians ought not to be given Holy Communion, for, in presenting themselves for the sacrament, they are
causing scandal to the faithful and offending Our Eucharistic Lord, who, again, shed that very Blood of His,
present in the Holy Eucharist, for each and every poor, innocent child who is so very unjustly killed by
abortion.
In fact, more than that, we, the PFC, do not understand why these politicians are not required, under
ecclesiastical obedience, by our fathers, the bishops, to publicly recant and repent from their pro-abortion
positions under pain of receiving a formal, public excommunication should they fail to do so! Nobody who
persists in the support of mass baby-murder (which is what legalized abortion is) — especially one who does
so publicly — has any right to call himself Catholic! To allow this is to do a disservice to the very names
“Catholic” and “Christian”!
The fact that pro-baby-murder politicians are being permitted to receive Our Sacred Lord has the potential to
undermine both our awareness of the indescribable evil of this massive child-sacrifice known as legalized
abortion, as well as the indescribable sacredness of the Blessed Sacrament — both truths we must uphold as
Catholics. In the end, the permitting of such politicians to receive Our Lord amounts, objectively, to a serious
lack of charity towards, first, the children in the womb who, daily, are slaughtered by the tens of thousands
throughout the world and, second, Our Lord Himself, truly present in the Blessed Sacrament, who is treated in
a sacrilegious manner by each and every one of these public sacrilegious Communions. If these little ones of
God and the Eucharistic Lord Himself are truly loved, how can this be permitted? It cannot.
So, in the face of such scandalous actions taking place, we, the PFC, urge the faithful to hold fast to their utter
hatred of the evil of abortion (and their love of those killed by abortion, as well as those so very deeply
wounded by abortion, especially the parents of these children) and to their utter love of the Blessed
Sacrament (and, consequently, to their hatred of anything that denigrates this Most Holy of Sacraments, such
as is taking place with these publicly scandalous and sacrilegious Communions).
We urgently call upon our spiritual fathers, the bishops, to stop this horrific and unjust (and uncharitable)
scandal, even as we also call upon these pro-abortion Catholic politicians (most especially our son in the Lord
and in His Church, Joseph Biden) to repent of their sins against, first, the unborn, and, secondly, against Our
Lord Himself (for, to these politicians, sons and daughters of ours in the Church, we say that, when your lives
are over, you will no longer have power but, rather, will face Our Lord and all His little ones, and you will then
have to give an account of your actions: If you do not repent, you will face everlasting condemnation; and, so,
out of love for you, our sons and daughters in the Lord and the Church, we call you to repentance today!)
In Christ,
Patres Fidelium Christi (PFC)
