By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The pastor of a Catholic church in South Carolina has asked parishioners who voted for Barack Obama to refrain from taking communion until they have made a full confession and done penance.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Archbishop Raymond L. Burke, the newly appointed Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, said the Church has the right to tell someone who persists in grave public sin that they may not receive Holy Communion, and that this should be regarded not as discipline, but as an act of mercy for both the individual and the community of believers.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A play mocking the Eucharist is being performed at Brown University and refers to a character who ravenously consumes a pile of Hosts.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The Confraternity of Catholic Clergy is asking the faithful to offer public reparation for the sacrilegious desecration of the Holy Eucharist that occurred last week at the hands of university professor in Minnesota.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The University of Minnesota professor who has been promising to desecrate the Eucharist has apparently carried out his threat.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A University of Minnesota biology professor is refusing to back down in the face of an onslaught of public outrage against his threats to publicly desecrate the Eucharist on the Internet.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A Minnesota professor has issued a call on his blog for consecrated Hosts, promising to “show you sacrilege, gladly and with much fanfare.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(June 24, 2008) Only a day after the divorced and remarried Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was told to ask a “higher power” about relaxing the rules preventing him from receiving Communion, Pope Benedict XVI boldly reiterated that only those Catholics in a state of grace can receive the Eucharist.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
(June 23, 2008) During a homily broadcast live from Rome, Pope Benedict XVI told participants at the 49th International Eucharistic Congress that he hoped one outcome of the Congress would be to encourage a greater study of Church teaching on the Eucharist. “Study in groups or individually,” he said, “so that you can live this mystery more intensely.”
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