Biphop Thomas Paprocki has decreed that last rites and communion should be withheld from same-sex couples. Unless of course they repent their sins. NPR has the story as well as a copy of the “Decree.”
No member of the clergy, or any other person while acting as an employee or representative of the Diocese, is to assist at or participate in the solemnization or blessing of same-sex marriages, including providing services, accommodations, advantages, facilities, goods or privileges for such events.
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Given the objectively immoral nature of the relationship created by same-sex marriages, persons in such unions should not present themselves for Holy Communion, nor should they be admitted to Holy Communion (cc. 915-916).
Remember, Paprocki has been all-in on being crazy for a few years now.
A 2015 Supreme Court ruling made gay marriage legal across the United States, and Paprocki has made headlines with his opposition to gay marriage before. In 2013, he held an exorcism in response to the legalization of same-sex marriage in Illinois.
"[T]he Church has not only the authority, but the serious obligation, to affirm its authentic teaching on marriage and to preserve and foster the sacred value of the married state," it said in a statement to NPR. "Regarding the specific issue of funeral rites, people who had lived openly in same-sex marriage, like other manifest sinners that give public scandal, can receive ecclesiastical funeral rites if they have given some signs of repentance before their death."
I guess “repenting” is the way to go; just ask the Catholic Church employed team of child rapists. Well, can anyone be saved if they’re connected to a gay couple?
a) A child with a Catholic parent or parents living in a same-sex marriage may be baptized if there is a well-founded hope that he or she will be brought up in the Catholic faith (c. 868). The pastor should use due discretion in determining the appropriateness of the public celebration of the baptism.
b) A child living with a Catholic parent or parents in a same-sex marriage, who is otherwise qualified and properly disposed, may receive First Eucharist and the Sacrament of Confirmation.
Yup. Wouldn’t want to lose those children.