"Catholic Church in Mexico Will Deny Communion to Politicians Who Voted for Abortion"

From LifeNews -

The Catholic Diocese of Culiacán told politicians who voted to legalize abortions in Sinaloa, Mexico this month that they may not receive communion. “Can a deputy or any person who professes to be a Catholic, while openly cooperating or legislating against life, receive Holy Communion? No. You cannot approach Sacramental Communion,” diocese official Father Miguel Ángel Soto Gaxiola told lawmakers, according to the Catholic News Agency.

Soto Gaxiola said Catholic lawmakers who voted to legalize abortion may not receive communion or become godparents in the diocese, according to CNA. By voting to allow the killing of unborn babies, these lawmakers placed themselves in an “unworthy state … to receive the Body of Christ,” he said.

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“… today we have many people scandalized by the public betrayal of the Church’s teaching on faith and morals by those legislators who call themselves ‘Catholic,’” Soto Gaxiola continued. “Indeed, the questioning of the faithful makes sense: How can a Catholic who openly promotes and is in favor of policies contrary to life come to Mass and approach to take communion?”

He said the church believes in the value of every human life from conception to natural death, and being “personally pro-life” is not a legitimate argument for supporting the legalization of abortion, CNS reports.

“This is an erroneous theory, since ‘no circumstance, no purpose, no law can make an act lawful that is intrinsically illicit, since it is contradictory to the Law of God, which is written in every human heart, known by reason itself and proclaimed by the Church,’” Soto Gaxiola said, quoting St. Pope John Paul II’s encyclical Evangelium Vitae.

Comments

[Audrey Creary]

Thank God! The Church in Mexico has taken the proper Stand. The U.S. bishops should take note and follow suit!

[Estela Reveles]

Strange-good, godly and conservative fransiscan nuns taught me in elementary school and later in catholic high school that nothing and noone can come between your conscience and God..

Will the bishops extend this ban to corrupt politicians in the pay of murderous drug and gun cartels, and those whose policies steal and oppress the poor?

[tom faranda]

We don't know if they are banned - maybe they are? - but if not they should be.

If you profess to being a Catholic, then you should form your conscience as a Catholic.
If not following a Ctholic formed conscience, they should not take the Eucharist.

[John Deluca]

Finally, bishops who do the right thing!