Bishop warns against 'weaponization of Eucharist' with elected officials
I got this in my email today from the diocese. I'm sure there will be other articles I can sift from that same email that downplay church teaching similar to this one.
diocesetucson.orgBishop warns against 'weaponization of Eucharist' with elected officials :: New Outlook :: Diocese of Tucson Online News
By Mark Pattison, Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Bishop Robert W. McElroy of San Diego warned against the "weaponization of Eucharist" as a way to get Catholic elected officials, President Joe Biden among them, to adhere to the church's stance on abortion.
"I do not see how depriving the president or other political leaders of Eucharist based on their public policy stance can be interpreted in our society as anything other than the weaponization of Eucharist and an effort not to convince people by argument and by dialogue and by reason, but, rather, to pummel them into submission on the issue," Bishop McElroy said.
"It would be very destructive. It would also cast the (U.S. bishops') conference more significantly into the role of being partisan, as being associated with one party rather than the other."
Bishop McElroy made the comments during a Feb. 1 online forum, "President Biden, U.S. Bishops and Pope Francis: How to Promote Catholic Principles in a Divided Church and Nation …