on the Infamous

Apostolic Exhortation

Amoris Laetitia
 

“Holy Communion is not a prize given to Catholics who refrain from adultery out of love for God and obedience to Him — those who wish to appear holy and deserving of  it — and are not.  Rather it is a medicine (clearly adverting to Saint Luke 5.32:  “I have come to call sick, not the whole”) and nourishment for those who are not hypocrites like the Pharisee in Saint Luke and the faithful Catholics disparaged above — who try to avoid sin in order to worthily receive Holy Communion — when we all know it is a pretense!”
 

The Reality of Mortal Sin that Francis Defies
Much like his recently acquired mentor — Martin Luther — whom Francis praises profusely, the reality of Mortal Sin has morphed into a modern fiction. After all, as he has said, no one goes to Hell: “No one can be condemned forever, because that is not the logic of the Gospel.” This is ... the “Gospel according to Francis”.

One who is dead can no longer be “nourished”, nor will any medicine avail him while he remains dead. The soul must first be alive (vivified through grace and absolution in the Sacrament of Penance — and possess a “firm amendment to sin no more”) — to be nourished or to receive a “powerful medicine.” Do you doubt this?

Consider the following statements absolutely irreconcilable with Francis’s statement above: one from Saint Paul himself, and the others from Saint Thomas Aquinas:

Saint Paul:

• “Therefore whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord. But let a man prove himself: and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of the chalice. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord. Therefore are there many infirm and weak among you, and many sleep [die].” (1 Corinthians 11:27-29)

St. Thomas Aquinas, Question 80:

• “This sacrament [the Holy Eucharist] is a medicine given to strengthen, and it ought not to be given except to them who are quit of sin.” (Article 1. “Whether there are two ways to be distinguished of eating Christ’s body?”)
   

• “Many receive Christ’s body unworthily; whence we are taught what need there is to beware of receiving a good thing evilly . . . For behold, of a good thing, received evilly, evil is wrought” (Reply to Objection 2)
   

• “It is manifest that whoever receives this sacrament while in mortal sin, is guilty of lying to this sacrament, and consequently of sacrilege, because he profanes the sacrament: and therefore he sins mortally.” (Article 4)
   

• “The fact of a man being unconscious of his sin can come about in two ways. First of all through his own fault, either because through ignorance of the law (which ignorance does not excuse him), he thinks something not to be sinful which is a sin, as for example if one guilty of fornication were to deem simple fornication not to be a mortal sin; or because he neglects to examine his conscience, which is opposed to what the Apostle says (1 Corinthians 11:28): “Let a man prove himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of the chalice.” And in this way nevertheless the sinner who receives Christ's body commits sin, although unconscious thereof, because the very ignorance is a sin on his part.” (Reply to Objection 5.)
   

• “The sin of the unworthy recipient is compared to the sin of them who slew Christ, by way of similitude, because each is committed against Christ's body. (Article 5 Reply to Objection 1)
   

• “Holy Communion ought not to be given to open sinners when they ask for it.” (Article 6)