Now that is what I call a Parish Priest doing his job.
Dear All,
Justine McCarthy has the appended article on p. 1 of The Sunday Times, January 27, 2019 [today].
Fr John Hogan, Parish Priest of Multyfarnham, Co. Westmeath, Diocese of Meath, refused Holy Communion to Robert Troy, FF TD for Longford–Westmeath, at a funeral Mass on January 4, 2019. Deputy Troy voted for the Health (Regulation of Termintation of Pregnancy) Bill 2018, on December 5, 2018, and voted against one of the Amendments from the NO deputies on November 29, 2018.
If you view the Catholic TV station, EWTN, you probably will have seen Fr Hogan’s show from Ireland. Fr Hogan is also Director of the Fraternity of St. Genesius. The Fraternity meets in Ely House, 8 Ely Place, Dublin 2, several times a year, and they show decent films –– the type you have to look long and hard for, the type that are of genuine artistic value, are not pornographic, and don’t feature scenes of gratuituous violence. In 2015 the Fraternity had a meeting on the Marriage ‘Equality’ Referendum, and I spoke from the audience, on behalf of ADFAM, at that meeting.
For your information, the Church’s teaching on abortion is part of the Church’s Ordinary and Universal Magisterium. Therefore, if someone, purporting to be a Catholic, nevertheless holds that direct abortion is permissible in any circuмstances, and persists in that stance, he/she incurs a latae sententiae [i.e. ‘automatic’] excommunication –– see the encyclical of Pope John Paul II [now Saint], Evangelium Vitae, §62, Endnote 73. Pope John Paul II, in Endnote 73, quotes Vatican II’s Lumen Gentium [Dogmatic Constitution of the Church] §25. See also The Code of Canon Law, Cann. 750, 751, and 1364 §1.
Also in regard to supporting abortion, including through one’s vote, when that vote actually gives rise to direct abortion, those supporting, including legislators [in the case of a Referendum, the ordinary voter is a legislator], incur a further latae sententiae excommunication –– see The Canon Law Letter & Spirit (The Canon Law Society of Great Britain and Ireland: Veritas 1995) pp. 808–810. It would have been a significant help in the run–up to the Abortion Referendum if ordinary Catholics had been been given clear instruction on the Church’s laws on excommunication in this regard.
If you would like to express your support for, and gratitude to, Fr Hogan, his address is as follows. Please exercise prudence. I don’t have a current e-mail address for him. If I discover a current e-mail address for him, I’ll pass it on to you immediately. Until I discover a current e-mail address for him, it is probably better to write to him, rather than to be phoning him. You may be sure he’ll get a lot of phone calls from the other side. Remember this: a priest needs to have access to his phone line, if parishioners are in danger of death, for example, and their relatives phone to ask the priest to administer the last rites. Also, for isolated older parishioners who are in need of the Sacrament of Reconciliation, for example, or would like to receive Holy Communion, the priest’s phone line is vital.
V Rev John Hogan, PP
Parochial House
Multyfarnham
County Westmeath
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/ireland/pro-choice-td-troy-is-denied-holy-communion-6bqfcbnnj 
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