Why Is Ignorance So Pervasive?

When a top Vatican official recently pronounced politicians who support abortion rights unfit to receive Communion — and several U.S. Roman Catholic bishops followed with similar statements — Carrie Sheehan of Seattle found herself increasingly uneasy about her church's involvement in secular politics.

"I'm appalled," said Sheehan, a 75-year-old Catholic who supports abortion rights and attends Mass weekly at the Chapel of St. Ignatius at Seattle University. She thinks the bishops are essentially taking sides in the election. "Are they going to have decrees against Catholic politicians who vote against health care or for capital punishment?"

Sheehan, the pro-choice Seattleite, said she is troubled that some bishops would withhold something so central to Catholic faith — the Eucharist — to sanction political stances.

"To me, Communion is supposed to be the deepest symbol of our faith," Sheehan said. "It is the coming together into community. It is sacred. That they would remove me from the Communion of my church for holding political views formed in good conscience is appalling."

She suffers from the same 'affliction of the mind' as a pastor of a local Catholic Church here. These days, it seems, Holy Communion is not the real, true, and substantial Body and Blood of Jesus - it's the 'gathering' as a community...What a disgraceful lie that has spread throughout much of the Church in America!

It is difficult to understand how a 75 year old individual could be so confused UNLESS she is a mal-instructed convert or if she has been taught heresy by priests and others. God, please, help us!

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