Weaponizing the Eucharist – not!

Bishops who have spoken about Holy Communion and pro-abortion politicians have been falsely accused of using the sacrament as a weapon or as a tool of retribution or of punishment.

In fact, the bishops are simply striving for clarity in the face of obfuscation.

As one Archbishop said,

"(If) we ignore or deny what the Church teaches, or refuse to follow what she teaches, we are not "in communion" with the Catholic faith. We separate ourselves from the community of believers. If we receive Communion anyway, we engage in a lie.

"Claiming to be Catholic and then rejecting Catholic teaching is an act of dishonesty and a lack of personal integrity. Worse, if we then receive Communion, we violate every Catholic who does believe and does strive to live the faith fully and unselfishly. And that compounds a sin against honesty with a sin against justice and charity. Again, as Justin Martyr said: 'No one may take part (in the Eucharist) unless he believes what we teach is true.'"

More specifically, as one Bishop said,

“The pro-abortion Catholic lawmakers are creating scandal in the Church by saying they are practicing Catholics and receiving Holy Communion, while at the same time promoting abortion legislation – promoting what is gravely evil.

“There is a glaring contradiction there. Since they have chosen, on a very, very grave matter, to separate themselves from the communion of the faith of their Church, they cannot come to Holy Communion - it is a contradiction - until they have had a change of heart.”


The Eucharist is being abused by the pro-abortion politicians - not by the bishops.