greenvilleonline.com - 11/14/2008
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The priest at St. Mary's Catholic Church in downtown Greenville has told parishioners that those who voted for Barack Obama placed themselves under divine judgment because of his stance on abortion and shouldn't receive Holy Communion until they've done penance. The Rev. Jay Scott Newman told ...
news.yahoo.com - 11/13/2008
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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 ...
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msnbc.msn.com - 11/14/2008
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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.
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Priest: No communion for Obama voters
thestate.com - 11/16/2008
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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 ...
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S.C. priest scolds Obama voters - Local / Metro
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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
A priest refuses communion for people who voted for Obama. Will he be disciplined? Or is this now what we can expect?
Diocese Repudiates SC Priest Who Said Catholic Obama Supporters Need Penance Before Communion
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... down -- Father Newman wrote that "Voting for a pro-abortion politician when a plausible pro-life alternative exits constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil, and those Catholics who do so place themselves outside of the full communion of Christ’s Church and under the judgment of divine law. Persons in this condition should not receive Holy Communion until and unless they are reconciled to God in the Sacrament of Penance, lest they eat and drink their own condemnation." Via email the Greenville News interviewed Father Newman, who expressed chagrin at a recent poll ...
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boston.com 11/14/2008 —
The pastor of St. Mary Catholic Church in Greenville, SC, is urging parishioners who voted for Barack Obama not to present themselves for Communion unless they go to confession first because they have cooperated with "intrinsic evil'' by voting ...
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