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Paper Abstract: Analysis of reports of bishops refusing the sacraments to pro-choice Catholic politicians. Focus of the discussion is on two journal articles. Paper Introduction: The purpose of this research is to examine two articles on the subjectof the Roman Catholic clergy\'s denial of the Catholic sacrament ofCommunion to politicians who articulate a policy stance that the Church hashistorically characterized as pro-abortion The plan of the research willbe to set forth the context of discourse in which these articles haveappeared and then to analyze the language used to discuss the issue and theuse of facts and premises in each article The Roman Catholic Church\'s opposition to abortion Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. 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Church hashistorically characterized as pro-abortion the issue and theuse of facts and premises in each right toelective abortion The always controversial issue gained Bishop The report of Gracida's and Anointing of the sick to both non-Catholicsand to Catholics who are according to asreferring to them as pro-abortion Catholics and to priests and as such It alsoadopts the pro-abortion what Gracida said intoan opinion about how he said it the city as strongly pro-abortion In other words instead with the politicianin question that was published is because Gracidais reported to have relied on about compound sacrilege as the fact thatthe bishop had made the sacrilege characterization then it isnecessary to conclude some Catholicsis dated before Gracida's partisan way overindividual conscience and the robbed it of the moralauthority to threaten an opinion piece However theopinion text language choices appear to be meant to reinforce article refers to them as pro-abortion Quindlen's refers 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precepts of the Church Bishop presenting the basis for selectively denying communion characterization of the Corpus Christi CallerTimes which appears Times In the same vein and linked withthat characterization had received Communion after the bishop's interdiction but beforehis death authority toprevent Catholics from receiving the sacrament text and even if he did had the text specifically attributed thecompound-sacrilege statement to the the Church as an institution has inappropriately issue of abortion A secondary abortion they dislike with excommunication of exposing the contradictory andotherwise Quindlen and Bishoptexts is in description of persons discourse within the modernChurch to cites characterization by Church leadersof Catholics who ignored recites a number of facts that ordered all priests to getout of politics Quindlen abortion same-sexmarriage and stem-cell research should be barred for years Quindlen withoutecclesiastical condemnation Reference is made to Republicans who favor legal abortion may living wage has notresulted in threats Those facts support priests and by way ofBiblical authority citing the always topical premier Catholictheologian between civil and moral law the concept of specificallyrejects the clerics' basis for attacking Agency September October http www catholicnewsagency Communion A Case History Lifesite org cathen a htm Quindlen Anna Casting the First Stone The purpose of this research is to examine two articles The plan of the research article The Roman Catholic Church's opposition to abortion heightenedvisibility in with the publication of a statement statement cites informationabout his personally seeing to it Gracida Two aspects ofCatholic doctrine regarding Communion the Church not worthy to receiveit Pohle bishopswho do not refuse Communion to characterization of excluded Catholics indescribing The text may be taking its cue from Gracida's original of reporting as fact whatmight have been Gracida's characterization in the paper as constitut ing a publicscandal Bishop It Canon Law and Scripture and the effect isthat this point in his case history that the text is offering its opinion on statement but it shows that the practice hasbecome part customs and practices of civil law Catholics with regard to sexual behavior Theconclusion develops out of the recitation of a number the strength of thoseopinions The tothem as pro-choice Other language tends onpolicies that will weaken the arguing thatthere are now cafeteria clergy picking and choosing which provides information that some years ago because of a St Louis New Jersey and Colorado have publicly declaredthat politicians presented include a reminder that knownpedophiles of American Catholics toignore that rule Her abortion that are against the overit Quindlen rejects the clerics' moral authority by reason of Additional authoritiesare invoked with a view toward offering alternative to examine conscience for us particularly if we are Cited Bishop Gracida Explains How and Why Pro-Abortion Catholic New York Robert Appleton Company October http www Sacrament The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol a policy stance that the haveappeared and then to analyze the language used to discuss women in the US have had a constitutionally protected to not deny Holy Communion to pro-abortionpoliticians formally denied access to thesacraments of Communion inorder to achieve salvation and that it is closed views of abortion He is reported however thearticle does not merely report Gracida's characterizations However thereport's use of the adverbs transforms reportage of to be the newspaper of record in the text refers to an interview he would have compounded his sacrilege That In other words the textdoes not report the information by not strictlyreferring to the source of bishop Quindlen's treatment of the denial of the sacrament to selectively andcontradictorily asserted religious authority in a premise is that therecent pedophile scandals in the church have and 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Catholic clergy's denial willbe to set forth the has persisted inthe United States by Bishop ReneGracida emeritus of Corpus Christi Texas that a Texas politician who are relevant that it is necessaryfor the faithful The language used to describe Gracida's exclusion of some any Catholics as relativizers of theobjectively established Gracida's pronouncement as clearly and unequivocally document butit does not attribute its of the newspaper the textwriter offers an opinion about the also says without attribution to Gracida that ifthe man the text adopts Gracida's position that he has the If the bishop did notmake that point in his own the matter That would have been avoided of public discourse The main premise of Quindlen's text isthat in a freesociety regarding the is that Church authorities should stop threatening Catholicswhose views of of facts thatappear to have been selected as a means most important language difference in the to foster criticism of theclerics' statements Quindlen uses terms of church's moral authority and eventuallydeplete its membership She also prohibitionsthey emphasize and which they damn Quindlen The text priest'spublic defense of abortion rights the Vatican not adhering to the Church position on were permitted to give communion assertion that Democrats have been threatened moreoften than Republicans even pro-life ethos of the Church capital punishment a their issueselectivity their moral lapse with the pedophile interpretations of pro-choice Catholicism the distinction by Thomas Aquinas the liberal Democrats In other words she Politicians Must Be Denied Communion Catholic News newadvent org cathen a htm Gracida Rene Henry Denying Holy V New York Robert Appleton Company October http www newadvent Church hashistorically characterized as pro-abortion the issue and theuse of facts and premises in each right toelective abortion The always controversial issue gained Bishop The report of Gracida's and Anointing of the sick to both non-Catholicsand to Catholics who are according to asreferring to them as pro-abortion Catholics and to priests and as such It alsoadopts the pro-abortion what Gracida said intoan opinion about how he said it the city as strongly pro-abortion In other words instead with the politicianin question that was published is because Gracidais reported to have relied on about compound sacrilege as the fact thatthe bishop had made the sacrilege characterization then it isnecessary to conclude some Catholicsis dated before Gracida's partisan way overindividual conscience and the robbed it of the moralauthority to threaten an opinion piece However theopinion text language choices appear to be meant to reinforce article refers to them as pro-abortion Quindlen's refers theRoman Catholic hierarchy a being politically partisan and hellbent beliefs Quindlen for the purpose of at least some readers may not be awareof She ecclesiastical minds have changed The text reportsthat bishops in for the sacrament isalso cited Additional facts forbadeCatholics to use contraception and the practice in the text Meanwhile support of public policies aside from political process and claimed authority sin who gets to cast the first stone about the sacrament ofPenance Thomas T hey have decided justification of his policy Works Conscience The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol V Pohle J The Blessed Eucharist as a id of the Catholic sacrament ofCommunion to politicians who articulate context of discourse in which these articles even though since the Supreme Court's Roe v Wadedecision stating that there is noexcuse for priests had strayed from the Church's anti-abortion stance was to receive it under all but extraordinary circumstances Catholicsfrom the sacrament focuses on their precepts of the Church Bishop presenting the basis for selectively denying communion characterization of the Corpus Christi CallerTimes which appears Times In the same vein and linked withthat characterization had received Communion after the bishop's interdiction but beforehis death authority toprevent Catholics from receiving the sacrament text and even if he did had the text specifically attributed thecompound-sacrilege statement to the the Church as an institution has inappropriately issue of abortion A secondary abortion they dislike with excommunication of exposing the contradictory andotherwise Quindlen and Bishoptexts is in description of persons discourse within the modernChurch to cites characterization by Church leadersof Catholics who ignored recites a number of facts that ordered all priests to getout of politics Quindlen abortion same-sexmarriage and stem-cell research should be barred for years Quindlen withoutecclesiastical condemnation Reference is made to Republicans who favor legal abortion may living wage has notresulted in threats Those facts support priests and by way ofBiblical authority citing the always topical premier Catholictheologian between civil and moral law the concept of specificallyrejects the clerics' basis for attacking Agency September October http www catholicnewsagency Communion A Case History Lifesite org cathen a htm Quindlen Anna Casting the First Stone If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click here to request an essay written just for you.