tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132410343235772418.post2771167073689789064..comments2023-10-01T03:05:01.291-07:00Comments on GAY MYSTIC: Will Catholic Bishops Start Denying Communion to Gay Marriage Supporters?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132410343235772418.post-76775909072350356912009-11-27T02:46:36.148-08:002009-11-27T02:46:36.148-08:00Wonderful suggestion, Terence, 'reciprocal exc...Wonderful suggestion, Terence, 'reciprocal excommunication.' At the moment, these individuals have far too much power because of the present Catholic attachment to the dubious idea of an unbroken apostolic succession - the implication that if a priest has not been ordained by a bishop who stands in the line of this questionable succession, then the Eucharist 'confected' remains invalid. But as numerous theologians, Schillebeeckx among them, and church historians have already pointed out, this 'succession' is primarily a myth. There are far too many broken moments in the line. A community can, in the power of the spirit, elect and bless a leader from their midst who can then validly represent them at the table of the Lord, without the necessity of being 'zapped' by a bishop in continuity with this mythical line. Somehow, this basic principle has to be developed so as to free us from the present tyranny of Eucharistic control. Part of the solution, however, would have to be the education of the laity into the nature of this 'myth' of apostolic succession.Richard Demmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17116799651068476195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132410343235772418.post-65065559032976529042009-11-24T06:06:43.659-08:002009-11-24T06:06:43.659-08:00I have been following the story of Tobin with horr...I have been following the story of Tobin with horror, but without comment. The man is despicable. Fundamental to Catholic faith, along with the commitment to life and social justice, is the idea of freedom of conscience. Somewhere in canon law is a precept (I am not, thank God, a canonist) which says that we do not have the right to judge the interior state of another's soul.<br /><br />To be "Catholic" simply means to have been baptised into, and to accept by annual baptismal vows,the church which calls itself universal. Nowhere do the creed or those baptismal vows include unquestioning loyalty to a self-selecting cadre of bishops, no matter how much Tobin and his cadres wih that they did.<br /><br />If Tobin and his colleagues wish to "excommunicate" (i.e. exclude from communion) those they disagree with, I shall be happy to reciprocate: I no longer regard Tobin as truly "Catholic" - by his own words, he does not support a universal church that welcomes all, but a narrow and subservient one of sycophants.Terence Weldonhttp://queeringthechurch.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8132410343235772418.post-17691736049763468102009-11-24T06:06:43.660-08:002009-11-24T06:06:43.660-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Terence Weldonhttp://queeringthechurch.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com