Quote Originally Posted by Sasquatch
That doesn't mean that they're turning away their forgiveness, just Communion, which isn't necessary in forgiveness.
If you confess your sins, in catholicism, it tends to mean you are forgiven after you do the penitence. If you say divorced people or pro-abortion can't recive communion, you are saying they cannot be forgiven, or at least I understand it like that.

And you can stop saying "good thing he's so old, that means he'll die soon". That's a little cruel, wouldn't you say?
I guess you can say that if you hold any respect whatsoever to this person. I don't like this man, I don't like him being in charge of the church, I don't like the fact my family- who are Catholic- have to be frustrated because of the decadence of the Vatican. I think a Pope with a more open outlook on things (and being religious dosen't mean being a sexually repressed dogmatic, look at the Franciscan order, for example) would be helpful for the world. How do we get a new pope? Well, after the current one abdicates or dies. So if this guy dies, well, I'll be sorry I can't thank him for it.