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Denying communion
National Catholic Reporter, Oct 26, 2007 by Gert Wilkinson, Jones Greg
I was taken aback by St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke's comment that eucharistic ministers are obliged "to refuse holy Communion to persons known by the public to be in mortal sin" (NCR, Oct. 5). Who are we to assume someone is unworthy? St. Paul asks: Who knows what pertains to a person but the spirit of that person within? The day I have to refuse Communion to anyone is the day I cease being a eucharistic minister in that parish. Whom did Jesus turn away?
GERT WILKINSON
Oconomowoc, Wis.
Same stupid behavior, different election year. Perhaps Archbishop Burke needs to read John Paul II's "Gospel of Life," for he seems to have left out some other grave sins like war and the death penalty. Ray, tell all who support the unjust war in Iraq they cannot receive Communion. Tell all who support the death penalty that they are unwelcome to receive.
GREG JONES
Chicago
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