Cardinal Keeler weighs in on Politicians and Holy Communion

Addressing a national controversy for the first time, Baltimore's Cardinal William H. Keeler said he opposes an attempt by some bishops to politicize Communion and deny the sacrament to Catholic politicians who support abortion rights.

"Our position is ... Catholics have a responsibility to examine their own conscience and see if they are in a state that is appropriate for the reception of the sacrament," he said. "We don't need bishops to get into the act."

It is certainly a laudable goal to have Catholics examine their own consciences...but as a result of decades of failed catechesis, it seems that far too many professed Catholics are unable to do that. Until such time as Catholics are adequately educated in the faith, this policy will fail. Until Catholics are again able to properly distinguish virtue and vice, good and evil, morality and immorality, other measures are needed to illuminate that Truth which has been obscured by Satan and a decadent society, and sustained by the failure to educate the faithful.

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