Losing the Forest Through the Trees
Our take - when an Ivory Tower Theologian at a liberal formerly Catholic university starts sticking up for blasphemous activity by a homosexual group, you can almost bet on what you'll find in his closet.
Jesuit priest and moral theologian Jim Bretzke of the University of San Francisco opined that "over-accessorizing and poor taste in make-up" are no reasons to deny Communion to gay "Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence"
10/25/2007 9:40:00 PM
By Joni Durling and Mary Ann Kreitzer -Catholic Media Coalition It is annoying when a moral theologian tries to act like a canon lawyer and gets it wrong. In addressing the, now notorious, October 6, 2007 distribution of Holy Communion to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (SPI) at Most Holy Redeemer (MHR), Fr. Jim Bretzke, professor of moral theology at the Jesuit University of San Francisco (USF), did just that in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle.
The Chronicle quotes Fr. Bretzke as saying, "The general sacramental principle is that you don't deny the sacrament to someone who requests it...The second principle is that you cannot give communion to someone who has been excommunicated." He said such people are designated "manifest public sinners" in canon law.
Presumably, Fr. Bretzke referred to canon 915, but the canon says something different than what he implied. The actual canon reads:
Can. 915 Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin (emphasis added) are not to be admitted to holy communion
Note that the canon addresses three different groups of individuals: the excommunicated, the interdicted, and others who persist in manifest grave sin.
Read the rest here
Jesuit priest and moral theologian Jim Bretzke of the University of San Francisco opined that "over-accessorizing and poor taste in make-up" are no reasons to deny Communion to gay "Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence"
10/25/2007 9:40:00 PM
By Joni Durling and Mary Ann Kreitzer -Catholic Media Coalition It is annoying when a moral theologian tries to act like a canon lawyer and gets it wrong. In addressing the, now notorious, October 6, 2007 distribution of Holy Communion to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (SPI) at Most Holy Redeemer (MHR), Fr. Jim Bretzke, professor of moral theology at the Jesuit University of San Francisco (USF), did just that in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle.
The Chronicle quotes Fr. Bretzke as saying, "The general sacramental principle is that you don't deny the sacrament to someone who requests it...The second principle is that you cannot give communion to someone who has been excommunicated." He said such people are designated "manifest public sinners" in canon law.
Presumably, Fr. Bretzke referred to canon 915, but the canon says something different than what he implied. The actual canon reads:
Can. 915 Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin (emphasis added) are not to be admitted to holy communion
Note that the canon addresses three different groups of individuals: the excommunicated, the interdicted, and others who persist in manifest grave sin.
Read the rest here
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