That committee is charged with drafting the document on the Eucharist that will be presented to the bishops in November. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, acknowledged the work ahead would be challenging, but as chairman of the bishops' Committee on Doctrine, he was prepared to address it. Pope Francis said he preferred not to comment directly on the issue of denying Communion in the United States, but he urged bishops to take a pastoral approach rather than wade into the political sphere.ДЄnd it's a complicated issue, pointed out Timothy O'Malley, director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame and author of the recent book 'Real Presence: What Does It Mean and Why Does It Matter?'Дuring a Zoom discussion on this topic sponsored by Georgetown University this past summer, Bishop Kevin C. It even came up on the pope's flight back from Bratislava, Slovakia, Sept. bishops meet this fall for their annual assembly, they will revisit the discussion they began in mid-June about the Eucharist and will be presented with a drafted document on the 'meaning of the Eucharist in the life of the church.'Д«ut in the time since their virtual spring assembly, the topic of the Eucharist, and particularly the debate it raised about denying Communion to Catholic politicians who support abortion, has prompted ongoing discussion.

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