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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Catholics believe that faith has a personal and a public dimension. Whatever Biden's interior state may be, he is objectively and publicly denying a fundamental tenet of the faith, and doing so as a public figure. Whether he and others in a similar position should be permitted to receive the Eucharist has been debated at length in canon law circles. The better argument clearly is that the priest actually has a duty to deny Biden the Eucharist because of the public nature of his dissent, his longstanding persistence in his positions despite numerous private and public admonitions, and his contumacious refusal voluntarily to refrain from coming forward at communion time. Biden's assertion that he privately holds beliefs different than his public positions but does not want to "impose" them on others is entirely specious. He regularly imposes his own beliefs via legislation on other subjects. His attempted dodge is nothing more than a "Nuremburg defense," and equally ineffectual. [/quote]

That's all fine from a Church legalese perspective.  Doesn't change that it was un-christ like and hypocritical and inappropriate for the Priest to inject the Church into politics.  But as long as some theologians worked out the legal pretzels, you can rest self-satisfied.

This is why the Church is losing members, you know.  [/quote]

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