Fox 2 is apparently running a 3 night report on this topic...I'll try to link and/or capture the video...(KTVI - myFOXstl.com) --
In Good Faith Sunday night, FOX 2's Dan Gray reported the archbishop is urging ordained and lay ministers to deny communion to people the Catholic Church considers unworthy. "Its the greatest gift we have in the church. There's nothing greater in the church, in the Catholic Church than the Body and Blood of Christ," Burke told Gray in rare one on one interview.
Holy Communion is a gift that the St. Louis archbishop said he would not share with presidential candidate John Kerry in 2004 or Rudy Giuliani this year. both men are Catholic. Both men support abortion rights. He emphasized," For us not to be concerned about its reception its just wrong." Now Burke is taking it a step further. He says any eucharistic minister should not give the sacrament to politicians who support abortion or to anyone known to be in mortal sin. The archbishop said, "The canon reads that a person who is in public grave sin, obstinately so, is not to be admitted to receive Holy Communion and so the responsibility falls upon the minister of the Holy Communion, whether it be the bishop, priest or deacon or an extraordinary minister."
Burke says if a minister does distribute communion to unworthy people they themselves are putting their own souls in jeopardy.
Burke: "If it was a priest he would be disciplined by the bishop, if it was a bishop he would disciplined by a higher authority or if it was an extraordinary minister they would be disciplined by the parish priest who is in charge there. the likely thing is the person would no longer be a minister of Holy Communion.
Gray: "Would that be a mortal sin?"
Burke: "Yes, of course."
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