Two weeks ago Lifesite news reported Bishop Egan as saying that excommunicating Catholic politicians who were pro-abortion or same-sex marriage was an act of mercy. This week the Daily Telegraph reports that Greg Pope, the Head of Parliamentary Relations at the Catholic Bishops’ Conference has written to Catholic MPs and Peers to assure them there are “no plans to deny communion to those who supported gay marriage”. In fact Bishop Egan was only re-iterating the Church’s discipline expounded by Pope Francis (when Cardinal of Buenos Aires), Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and Cardinal Raymond Burke, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura.
Hah! Greg Pope, the inaptly named, again speaks for the Catholic Bishops of England and Wales, but not for me.
NOT FOR ME!
2 comments:
Bishop Egan does not need the permission of the Bishops' Conference.
I should hope not, nor yet of Greg P
Pope!
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