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21 November 2018

German Bishop Claims “No Right" To Deny Access to the Eucharist” [As Long As One Pays Church Tax]

So let me get this straight. Manifest sinners, adulterers, and heretics can receive Holy Communion, eating and drinking to their own damnation, but if someone doesn't pay their 'Church tax', he's excommunicated?

From Gloria.tv

“We don’t have the right to allow or deny anybody access to the Eucharist”, Münster Bishop Felix Genn claims in a foreword for a diocesan guideline about pastoral care for marriage.

Nevertheless, the German bishops have declared that they consider everybody "excommunicated" - and therefore not allowed to receive Holy Communion - who refuses to pay the German church tax which finances the German bishops and dioceses.

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