New Jersey Archbishop Myers: Catholics who back gay ‘marriage’ should not receive Holy Communion
NEWARK, NJ , - On Tuesday Newark Archbishop John J. Myers released a pastoral letter calling on Catholics , especially Catholic politicians, who do not accept the teaching of the Church on marriage, to “in all honesty and humility refrain from receiving Holy Communion .” The Archbishop said that “to continue to receive Holy Communion while so dissenting would be objectively dishonest.” Archbishop John J. Myers The New Jersey prelate made a distinction between those struggling at times unsuccessfully against sin, and those who would willingly oppose Church teaching. He said: “there is a difference between trying to live the whole Gospel while repenting of failures along the way, and not even trying. Worse still is the attempt by some to alter or pervert the authentic teaching of the Church, which is the true teaching of Christ .” Archbishop Myers warned, “ Jesus had very harsh things to say to those whose false teachings led others, especially the young, astray.”