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Catholic Priest: Id Deny Biden Communion Until He Repents and Converts
By Hemant Mehta, March 21, 2021
In a video that went viral again over the weekend, a Catholic priest made it clear he would never give Joe Biden communion until he repented for being pro-choice (not that Biden was asking him for any favors.)
The political-rant-disguised-as-a-sermon was delivered by Rev. William Kosco of St. Henry Catholic Church in Buckeye, Arizona on February 7. The full sermon is here, but the key excerpt is below:
if you are pro-abortion, I am tempted to ask you to leave St. Henry Parish. Leave this parish. [Im] tempted to say that, because then I think, Where would you go?
This is not just this parish that teaches this, this is the Catholic Church. The holy Catholic Church of God that teaches this. What parish would accept your views? Sadly, you would find one, and that is an indictment against the bishops. God help that parish that would let your ideas foster in their parish.
And so instead, I will not ask you to leave. Why? Because this may be your only chance to repent. To change your mind and to come to know the truth and finally embrace it. So I wont ask you to leave. This is your chance for salvation.
You are welcome here even if youre pro-abortion, but your ideas are not welcome here, and they will be given no quarter.
The same with Joe Biden. Hes a Catholic. Hes a member of the family. If, for some reason, he would be in Buckeye on a Sunday, Joe Biden is welcome to come to Mass here. His ideas are not welcome here.
And if you ask me a follow-up question: Would you give him communion? No. Over my dead body. Not until he repents. Hes a public figure. He needs to publicly repent, and we need to pray for his conversion.
Nothing like the member of an organization that facilitates child sex abuse telling everyone Joe Biden is a bad Catholic because he dares to let women control their own bodies.
Who is 'pushing back' now?
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215251927
Bad ideas need to be condemned, for they inspire bad behavior.
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NeoGreen
Mar 2021
OP
Maybe he should consider that his 'idea' that a woman should have no control over
notinkansas
Mar 2021
#5
There is a procedure for an abortion (as well as a reason for it) in the Old Testament.
Gore1FL
Apr 2021
#19
A lot of the supposed moral lessons in the Bible aren't in "God said 'do this'" form
Silent3
Apr 2021
#21