Monday, May 16, 2005
(1:24 AM) | bitchphd:
I seem to vaguely remember St. Augustine saying something about the holy spirit
From Echidne, who's guesting for atrios, this story for Pentecost:Priest in St. Paul denies communion to parishoners wearing rainbow ribbons, in support for gay Catholics.
[Archibishop] Flynn wrote back to say the sashes are ``more and more perceived as a protest against church teaching,'' declaring that it has never been acceptable ``to use the reception of communion as an act of protest.''
Is it, however, acceptable to use the denial of communion to punish people for questioning church teaching? Is questioning church teaching necessarily violating it? And what about the idiot parishoner who says that the Church has affirmed the sinfulness of homosexuality for two thousand years? Is complete ignorance of Church history preferable to engaged disagreement with Church teaching? And is it okay for one group of lay Catholics to actively prevent another group from receiving communion?
Last year, some conservative groups in St. Paul kneeled in church aisles to block sash-wearers from receiving communion.
Am tempted to point out that the trinity is a triangle, but shall refrain.
