Originally Posted by Welsh-lad:
“I'm well aware of the transubstantiation issue.
Still stupid to exclude people from communion imo.
As for the papists looking sheepish, what makes you think that they know their religion well enough? Many (as in any denomination) are cultural or heritage catholics only and don't believe the dogma or theology.
Or do you think every single roman catholic shuns contraceptives?”
“I'm well aware of the transubstantiation issue.
Still stupid to exclude people from communion imo.
As for the papists looking sheepish, what makes you think that they know their religion well enough? Many (as in any denomination) are cultural or heritage catholics only and don't believe the dogma or theology.
Or do you think every single roman catholic shuns contraceptives?”
They clearly didn't know their religion well enough or they would have looked totally non-sheepish, whatever their opinions on transubstantiation or contraception. Lay Catholics might not believe all that, but you don't seriously expect the Catholic hierarchy to start behaving like a lá carte Catholics too, do you? The priest does take the supernatural aspect of communion seriously, so from his point of view its not stupid at all to exclude those who haven't received the sacrament of baptism and haven't been to confession.
I don't think its asking too much for people outside the Catholic Church to respect that either, especially Anglicans who believe an awful lot of ridiculous things themselves, virgin births and resurrecting the dead, etc.





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