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No Communion For Obama Supporters, Says South Carolina Priest
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has told his parishioners that they should refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because the Democratic president-elect supports abortion, and supporting him "constitutes material cooperation with ...
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S.C. priest scolds Obama voters - Local / Metro
thestate.com — A Greenville priest who told parishioners those who cast ballots for President-elect Barack Obama risk placing themselves “outside of the full communion of Christ’s church” is simply enunciating church teaching and has the full support of the Diocese ... (more) S.C. priest scolds Obama voters - Local / Metro
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Representing “material cooperation with intrinsic evil”
The Moderate Voice — ... Brothers monastic order. In other words, the Church recognized it was strong enough to actually discuss and intellectually consider the merits of ideas that upon facile examination were conflicting with the central ideology of the Church. Unfortunately, the Catholic Church in the United States seems to be on the same path as the Baptists and other intolerant Protestant Christian denominations, see this:     No Communion For Obama Supporters, Says South Carolina Priest Yes, ...

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