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 George Weigel: Allowing Joe Biden to receive Holy Communion is a ‘crisis’
for the Church
*The scandal of a public official defying Church teaching on abortion while
receiving the Blessed Sacrament* diminishes 'Eucharistic coherence.'
Fri Feb 5, 2021 - 6:46 pm EST
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/george-weigel-allowing-joe-biden-to-receive-holy-communion-is-a-crisis-for-the-church

 By Dorothy Cummings McLean

SAN FRANCISCO, California, February 5, 2021 (LifeSiteNews)
<http://www.lifesitenews.com> — *Catholic author George Weigel  pointed out
*that *allowing Joseph Biden to receive Holy Communion diminishes the
Catholic Church.*

In an essay appearing in Catholic World Report
<https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2021/02/03/the-challenge-of-eucharistic-coherence/>
on Wednesday, February 3, *the distinguished biographer of St. Pope John
Paul II recalled the saint’s teaching that the “Church draws her life from
the Eucharist*”* and brought readers’ attention to the Latin American
bishops’ 2007 insistence on “Eucharistic coherence.”*

“... (A)ccording to those bishops (whose number included the man who would
become pope six years later),* the Church’s Eucharistic coherence required
that holy communion not be distributed to those Catholics in politics and
medical practice who were not in full communion with the Church
**because **they
were facilitating or participating in such grave moral evils as abortion
and euthanasia,*" Weigel wrote.

The scandal of Catholic politicians who promote abortion receiving Holy
Communion has become more obvious than ever in the United States since
Biden, who was baptized in the Catholic Church and continues to identify as
a Catholic, was inaugurated as president of the United States.

“*Less than 48 hours after Mr. Biden took the presidential oath of office,
the White House issued a statement **celebrating the 48th anniversary of
Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that summarily mandated
today’s American abortion license *– one of the most radical in the world,”
Weigel recalled.

“The White House *statement also pledged that the administration would
codify Roe’s abortion license in federal law,*" he continued.
“What is the challenge to Eucharistic coherence here?”

Weigel compared Roe v. Wade to the pro-slavery Dred Scott decision of 1857,
pointing out that both violated “the bedrock Catholic social justice
principle of the inalienable dignity of every human life” and both *upheld
the “biologically false and morally unsustainable” claim that the lives in
question “were not really human.”*

“It is impossible to be a coherent Catholic and to affirm the degradation
of human dignity that underwrites Roe v. Wade,” the *Witness to Hope*
author stated.

“And incoherent Catholics receiving Holy Communion make for a
Eucharistically incoherent and thus evangelically diminished Church.”

Weigel listed a number of reasons why this “incoherence” is allowed to go
on, beginning with “inadequate catechesis” and not excluding the failures
of bishops to challenge the people God has entrusted to them to a “deeper
conversion in Christ.” He also pointed out that Catholic laypeople have
failed to “fraternally correct inherent fellow Catholics.”

The author characterized *the seemingly never-ending scandal of
pro-abortion American politicians receiving the Eucharist as a “crisis.”*

“The word ‘crisis’ is vastly overused today,” he admitted.

“But if Eucharistic incoherence in a Church that 'draws her life from the
Eucharist’ isn’t a crisis, what is?”

*Catholics believe, with St. Paul of Tarsus, that whoever receives Holy
Communion **unworthily is “eating and drinking damnation to himself” * (1
Cor. 11). *Catholics who are in a state of serious or “mortal” sin **are
discouraged from** receiving* *the Blessed Sacrament. The Catholic Church
considers** the direct killing of **an unborn child **so heinous that
whoever commits or procures one, or encourages the killing in any way
<https://www.catholiceducation.org/en/culture/catholic-contributions/automatic-excommunication-for-those-who-procure-abortion.html>,
is automatically excommunicated.*

*In the past, any Catholic who confessed to having procured an abortion had
to receive absolution from a bishop. **However, Pope Francis waived this
requirement in 2016, leading some to believe erroneously that the Catholic
Church had ceased to take the mortal sin as seriously as it has before. *

*The Catholic Church has never held the direct killing of the unborn child
to be anything but evil.* *A Christian catechism called the Didache
<http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/didache-roberts.html>, which
may have been written as early as the first century AD, and certainly no
later than the second, clearly forbids abortion and infanticide. It states
“ ... (Y)ou shall not murder a child by abortion nor kill that which is
born.”*

*For this reason*, *such pro-abortion “Catholic” groups as “Catholics for
Choice”** cannot be considered Catholic* *but rather anti-Catholic
institutions* i*ntent on contradicting and somehow abolishing* *the
perennially Catholic doctrine on the sanctity of innocent human life*.
The Catholic bishops of the United States have been divided on the question
of whether or not to give Holy Communion to such high-profile and powerful
Catholics as Biden. *In December, Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington,
D.C., who, as Biden’s bishop, bears spiritually responsibility for him,
announced that he would not **deny** him* *Holy Communion.* *However,
Archbishop Samuel Aquila of Denver has indicated, in effect, that he will
not **permit Biden “to eat and drink damnation”* to himself in the Colorado
diocese.

*Cardinal Raymond Burke, Cardinal Gerhard Muller, and Archbishop Gerhard
Müller have likewise expressed opposition t**o** the pro-abortion Biden
being permitted to receive* *the Blessed Sacrament of the altar*. In an
interview last September*, Burke was clear that* *Catholics who say they
are “devout” and yet promote abortion are false witnesses to* *the faith. *

*“If someone says, ‘I’m a devout Catholic,’ and at the same time is
promoting abortion, it gives the impression to others that it’s acceptable
for Catholic to be in favor of abortion,” *Burke told Thomas McKenna of
Catholic Faith and Family.

*“And, of course, it’s absolutely not acceptable. Never has been. Never
will be.”*

Burke also expressed concern for Biden’s eternal good. He indicated that he
would tell the politician “not to approach to receive Holy Communion, out
of charity toward him, because that would be a sacrilege and endanger the
salvation and his own soul.”


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