{"id":75,"date":"2022-03-14T20:09:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T20:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=75"},"modified":"2025-09-30T00:43:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:43:27","slug":"catholic-church-in-mexico-will-deny-communion-to-politicians-who-voted-for-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Catholic Church in Mexico Will Deny Communion to Politicians Who Voted for Abortion&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hvcljournal.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341cc5fb53ef0282e149529c200b-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Unborn baby\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341cc5fb53ef0282e149529c200b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/hvcljournal.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341cc5fb53ef0282e149529c200b-200wi\" style=\"width: 180px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Unborn baby\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From LifeNews &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2022\/03\/14\/catholic-church-in-mexico-will-deny-communion-to-politicians-who-voted-for-abortion\/\">The Catholic Diocese of Culiac\u00e1n told politicians who voted to legalize abortions in Sinaloa, Mexico this month that they may not receive communion. \u201cCan a deputy or any person who professes to be a Catholic, while openly cooperating or legislating against life, receive Holy Communion? No. You cannot approach Sacramental Communion,\u201d diocese official Father Miguel \u00c1ngel Soto Gaxiola told lawmakers, according to the Catholic News Agency.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Soto Gaxiola said Catholic lawmakers who voted to legalize abortion may not receive communion or become godparents in the diocese, according to CNA. By voting to allow the killing of unborn babies, these lawmakers placed themselves in an \u201cunworthy state \u2026 to receive the Body of Christ,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">*************<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201c\u2026 today we have many people scandalized by the public betrayal of the Church\u2019s teaching on faith and morals by those legislators who call themselves \u2018Catholic,\u2019\u201d Soto Gaxiola continued. \u201cIndeed, the questioning of the faithful makes sense: How can a Catholic who openly promotes and is in favor of policies contrary to life come to Mass and approach to take communion?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">He said the church believes in the value of every human life from conception to natural death, and being \u201cpersonally pro-life\u201d is not a legitimate argument for supporting the legalization of abortion, CNS reports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cThis is an erroneous theory, since \u2018no circumstance, no purpose, no law can make an act lawful that is intrinsically illicit, since it is contradictory to the Law of God, which is written in every human heart, known by reason itself and proclaimed by the Church,\u2019\u201d Soto Gaxiola said, quoting St. Pope John Paul II\u2019s encyclical Evangelium Vitae.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From LifeNews &#8211; The Catholic Diocese of Culiac\u00e1n told politicians who voted to legalize abortions in Sinaloa, Mexico this month that they may not receive communion. \u201cCan a deputy or any person who professes to be a Catholic, while openly cooperating or legislating against life, receive Holy Communion? No. You cannot approach Sacramental Communion,\u201d diocese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}