May 07, 2021
CWN Editor s Note: “Four Vatican institutions the Pontifical Council for Culture, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and Social Sciences, the Pontifical Academy for Life, and the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development have been at the forefront” of hosting such conferences, journalist Edward Pentin notes.
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A priest elevates the host during a Mass at St. Patrick s Cathedral in New York City in 2020. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
VATICAN CITY (RNS) As some American bishops discuss the possibility of denying Communion to Catholic politicians such as President Joe Biden for supporting abortion-rights policies, a senior Vatican prelate said decisions about administering the sacrament rest solely on the bishop giving the Eucharist.
“It’s not up to bishops in general to make these decisions, it’s the bishop of the person,” said Cardinal Michael Czerny, the undersecretary of the Migrants and Refugees Section of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, in an interview with Religion News Service on Thursday (May 6).
May 6, 2021 Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY – As countries become more culturally and ethnically diverse, their Catholic communities become more catholic and their societies can increasingly reflect the fact that all people are brothers and sisters, Pope Francis said. In encountering the diversity of foreigners, migrants and refugees, and in the intercultural dialogue that can emerge from this encounter, we have an opportunity to grow as church and to enrich one another, the pope wrote in his message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, which will be marked Sept. 26 in most countries. All the baptized, wherever they find themselves, are by right members of both their local ecclesial community and the one church, dwellers in one home and part of one family, the pope wrote in the message, which was released May 6 at the Vatican.
Vatican prelate says individual bishops have final say on Communion
‘It’s not up to bishops in general to make these decisions. It’s the bishop of the person,’ said Cardinal Michael Czerny. But at least one canon lawyer argues that when it comes to Communion for heads of state, it should really be up to the pope himself. Photo by Norbert Staudt/Pixabay/Creative Commons
May 6, 2021
VATICAN CITY (RNS) As some American bishops discuss the possibility of denying Communion to Catholic politicians such as President Joe Biden for supporting abortion-rights policies, a senior Vatican prelate said decisions about administering the sacrament rest solely on the bishop giving the Eucharist.
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