Friday, September 28, 2007
DID GOD HAVE FINAL SAY ABOUT "THE ROCK" ?
Spirit Daily links a story on the fire at The Rock. It was started by lightning. It gutted the interior of the church but left the stained glass windows unharmed. It is expected to take a year to repair it.
I believe this is the same church where the praise dance video was made.
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UPDATE
Praise dancers cavort as their church burns and Archbishop Burke looks on, while probably being no stranger to the theatrics.
Meanwhile on a different front Archbishop Burke has issued a conservative edict without precedent:
St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke, a veteran of clashes between Catholic bishops and politicians, has attempted for years to enlist fellow bishops to deny Holy Communion to wayward politicians.
Now, the conservative cleric is invoking the church's highest punishment -- mortal sin -- to persuade the lay and ordained Catholics who distribute Communion at Mass to safeguard the sacrament.
Drawing on the works of the late Italian Jesuit scholar Felice Cappello, Burke says those ministers are "held, under pain of mortal sin, to deny the sacraments to the unworthy."
That argument could place Communion ministers on the frontlines of the "wafer wars" as the 2008 presidential race heats up, and as bishops debate a document on "faithful citizenship."
It's not only EMs who will be on the wafer wars frontlines, other bishops may be there as well:
If Burke is calling on Communion ministers to disobey their bishops and deny Communion to Catholic politicians, it would be "revolutionary" and "encourage anarchy," [Rev. Thomas] Reese [of Georgetown Univ.] said.
"Most bishops do not want ministers of Communion playing policeman at the Communion rail," he added. "This is a significant change in focus. Suddenly, you're going to have a few thousand decisionmakers in parishes across the country."
