Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin Is BANNED From Taking Communion At His Church

It’s always really interesting to me when Democrats toot their “Christian” horn…

I don’t really get it.

It doesn’t do anything for their base… many (if not most?) openly condemn Christianity.

So… do they REALLY believe? And if so… what kind of HELLISH COGNITIVE DISSONANCE are they suffering from where they can say they are Christians… but support abortion?

Do these “clumps of cells” not have souls? because um….”Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.”

You can believe this, or you can not. That’s your business…

But how exactly can you believe this… AND stand for abortion?

These two are mutually exclusive…. so Sen. Dick Durbin’s bishop is cracking DOWN.

According to the Blaze:

Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin (Ill.) is banned from receiving communion by the bishop of Durbin’s Catholic diocese in Springfield, Illinois, until the senator “repents” of his pro-abortion “sin.”

Bishop Thomas John Paprocki noted in a Feb. 13 news release that Durbin’s longtime voting record in support of abortion constitutes “obstinate persistence in manifest grave sin.” Therefore, Paprocki declared, the senator “is not to be admitted to Holy Communion until he repents of this sin.”

“This provision is intended not to punish, but to bring about a change of heart,” the bishop continued. “Sen. Durbin was once pro-life. I sincerely pray that he will repent and return to being pro-life.”

Paprocki noted the U.S. Senate’s failure to pass the the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act — which would have prohibited abortions starting at 20 weeks after fertilization — and that 14 Catholic senators voted against the bill, including Durbin.

He also invoked Bishop Kevin Vann of Orange, California, who used to be Durbin’s pastor and said in April 2004 he’d be “reticent to give Sen. Durbin Holy Communion because his pro-abortion position put him outside of communion or unity with the Church’s teachings on life.”

Paprocki’s predecessor — now Archbishop George Lucas of Omaha — indicated he would support Vann’s decision, Paprocki said.

More from Paprocki’s statement:

Canon 915 of the Catholic Church’s Code of Canon Law states that those “who obstinately persist in mani­fest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.” In our 2004 Statement on Catholics in Political Life, the USCCB said, “Failing to protect the lives of innocent and defenseless members of the human race is to sin against justice. Those who formulate law therefore have an obligation in conscience to work toward correcting morally defective laws, lest they be guilty of cooperating in evil and in sinning against the common good.”

Beautiful.

Durbin hasn’t responded. Of course.