“You Go Straight to Hell!”
And then there were four:
Roman Catholic bishops in three Southeastern dioceses said Wednesday they will deny Communion to lawmakers who consistently support abortion rights unless the dissenting politicians publicly recant.The bishops said in a statement that Catholics who violate church teaching in policy-making were “cooperating in evil in a public manner.”
The banned Catholic lawmakers could resume taking the sacrament “only after reconciliation with the church has occurred, with the knowledge and consent of the local bishop, and public disavowal of former support for procured abortion,” the clerics said.
“There can be no contradiction between the values bestowed by baptism and the Catholic faith and the public expression of those values,” the bishops said.
It Is Late And I Cannot Sleep
It is worst at night, when I am alone with my thoughts and memories. In this house, this place so rife with ghosts and history? I lie abed at night and the weight of it presses upon me. The desire…