Call to Restrict Role of 'a La Carte' Catholics (Ireland)

'Part-time' catholics and their children should possibly be denied sacraments, a religious order's magazine has suggested. Reality, a publication of the Redemptorist Order, has argued that communion, confirmation and other holy ceremonies should perhaps 'be restricted only to those who have a genuine faith commitment' ..

But former priest Denis Bradley denounced the editorial as 'unchristian and nothing to do with spirituality'.

Bradley, who was the key contact between the British government and the IRA leadership in the Eighties and Nineties while the Provisional IRA considered a ceasefire, said even suggesting the idea that revising who does or does not receive the sacraments was 'an abomination' ..

A leading writer on Irish religious affairs defended the magazine's right to question if 'part-time' or 'nominal' Catholics deserved the sacraments. Malachi O'Doherty, author of I was a Teenage Catholic, said: 'If you want to live a secular life then why do you want the sacraments? I no longer attend church or believe, so why, for instance, would I ask that when I die I get a funeral mass?'

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/113241.html

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...whatever, and tell if their "faith commitment" is "genuine?"

Wow.

Used to be, only God knew what was really going on inside ya. These folks must have, like, spiritual laparoscopic equipment, huh? Who knew technology was so advanced?

ironically,
Bright

what the word "Catholic" actually means!

Bradley is right as usual.

gem?

I know, bust down people's doors and do an on-the-spot lifestyle inspection!

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