NEWSMAX: … [Cardinal Burke had] also been a leader of American bishops who’d argued Catholic politicians who support abortion rights should be barred from receiving communion; Cardinal Wuerl had taken an opposite tack, The Times said.
“That certainly is in line with the pope, who has said that communion is not a reward for being good,” the Rev. Thomas Reese, a Jesuit priest and the author of “Inside the Vatican: The Politics and Organization of the Catholic Church” told The Times.
“It is a sacrament of healing to help people.” … (more)
