Quote Originally Posted by Shadow Nexus
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.
Actually, no, that's far from what I'm saying. I never mentioned divorced people, because it's not something they can change or take back. People who support abortion, however, I don't see a problem with refusing them Communion. As abortion is un-Biblical, and thus a sin to support, and Communion is meant only for those who are, supposedly, at the moment, "clean", it's only logical to deny Communion to those people. Any pro-abortionist can be forgiven, but I don't believe that can happen while they still support abortion. If they repent from their sins--including supporting abortion--then it means they will turn away from them, or at least try to.

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.
I don't apologize if your family is frustrated that the leader of their religion is a strict follower of their religion. If one disagree with the Pope--and thus Catholicism--then the simple solution is to move to another branch of Christianity, or whatever religion caters to that person's beliefs. Being the Pope doesn't mean being nice and trying not to push people away, it means following the Bible, or at least the Catholic Church's interpretation thereof.