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This episode was motivated by a burden I feel whenever someone tells me that they are suffering because of what a priest has done — and here we are not talking about the sexual abuse of minors and the horrific cover-ups by the hierarchy. There are other types of sufferings, and they all contribute to pain we all feel as a suffering Church: preaching heresies, nit-picking about rules in a harmful way, unpastoral attitudes, and in abuses that, because they are not victimizing children, remain covered up and undealt with.
So I dared to take a frank and honest look at what happens when priests do not have an active and alive, personal relationship with the Holy Spirit. When it causes suffering and drives people away from the Church and from Christ, it is “diabolical” (quoting from Bishop Robert Barron’s Letter to a Suffering Church).
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This episode includes what the General Instruction on the Roman Missal actually says and means about the “right” way to receive the Eucharist. See our WordBytes on The correct posture at Mass: Can we genuflect when receiving Communion?
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