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| Canadian priest sorry for giving dog Holy Communion | ||
| 2010-07-28 | ||
| A priest in Canada has apologised after giving Holy Communion to a dog. Reverend Marguerite Rea of St Peter's Anglican Church, in Toronto, received complaints from Christians all over Canada after she fed communion bread to a German Shepherd cross named Trapper. Area Bishop Patrick Yu said the priest had contravened church policy with her "strange and shocking" actions.
"If I have hurt, upset or embarrassed anyone, I apologise," she told her congregation on Sunday morning, the Toronto Star reports.
"The minister welcomed me and said come up and take communion, and Trapper came up with me and the minister gave him communion as well," Mr Keith told the Toronto Star. "I thought it was a nice way to welcome me into the church. I thought it was acceptable. There was an old lady in the front just beaming when she saw this." | ||
| Posted by:Fred |
| #18 Bit of Catholic canon law: blessings are fine, they call upon God to help these items (be they a dog, a house, or even a person) to help these items serve the greater glory of His Name and the Salvation of the world. But the communion is off limits except to Catholics in full communion with the Church, its magesterium, the Bishops and the Pope. The fact that Pelosi and other name-only Catholics still take communion is a scandal, and damns her for eternity for abuse of the Holy Sacrament of Communion - abusing God Himself. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2010-07-28 21:30 |
| #17 She missed her chance - she should have said, "Well, dog is God spelled backwards".... |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-07-28 20:44 |
| #16 I remember being continually shocked at what was allowed to appear on the BBC in "Yes, Minister" and then "Yes, Prime Minister". Perhaps senior management didn't watch it, as they didn't notice "Dr. Who" and "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" until it was much too late. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-07-28 20:33 |
| #15 This reminds me of the BBC comedy, "Yes, Prime Minister". In the episode entitled The Bishop's Gambit, the PM needs to appoint a new CofE Bishop, and his choices are an atheist and a radical socialist-anarchist. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-07-28 19:47 |
| #14 Sounds like the loons run the asylum over there. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-07-28 16:49 |
| #13 WTF? An agnostic priest? You can't even call them a priest let alone let them near any kind of Sacrament. That's utter, pure, BS. If they are agnostic, they aren't Christian. |
| Posted by: miscellaneous 2010-07-28 16:47 |
| #12 The Anglican church has a Bishop who is Agnostic Richard Holloway says the worldwide Anglican Church has made room for "happy clapping" evangelicals, bells-and-smells Catholics, women priests and, in the United States, openly gay clergy and even practitioners of other faiths. So surely, he argues, it can find room for people like him - Christians who don't believe in God. Holloway, contrary to popular belief, has not left the Episcopal Church, as Scottish Anglicanism is known. He may have taken early retirement as Bishop of Edinburgh but the writer remains an ordained priest and consecrated bishop, who still preaches from the pulpit, performs baptisms and weddings and even presides at communion. |
| Posted by: john frum 2010-07-28 16:43 |
| #11 In Catholicism, dogs are like cars, icons and toolsets, etc. They they can be blessed by a priest. But the Host and Wine are the Body and Blood of the Christ, a physical manifestation of God. True God, true food as stated by Christ himself. So this "priest" basically demonstrated that to her and her church, God is dog food. That "priest" should resign, unless the Anglican communion has sunk to the pint where the Host is truly dog food in the eyes of their church. that is unfortunately probable. |
| Posted by: No I am The Other Beldar 2010-07-28 16:35 |
| #10 "received complaints from Christians all over Canada after she fed communion bread to a German Shepherd cross" But if it had been a German Shepherd purebred.... |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-07-28 16:02 |
| #9 The End of Days approaches ... |
| Posted by: Glomock Tojo6610 2010-07-28 13:34 |
| #8 Anyone here missing that dogs don't _need_ communion to begin with because they never fell from grace to begin with? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-07-28 13:28 |
| #7 Ironically, Catholic Priests have a long tradition of blessing animals, even sprinkling them with holy water. But giving a Host to an animal is so heretical that even today, there would be the strong suggestion to the owner that the animal would have to be put down. In the good old days, they would consider putting the Priest down as well. This tradition is so strong, that I question whether this woman did this accidentally. You have to figure that the majority of female Anglican Priests are pretty bent in the first place, and are not entirely convinced of the whole "God" thing. I would strongly advise her to not visit any of the African Provinces, either, because those African Archbishops are virtually kings, and have no sense of humor about these things. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-07-28 11:14 |
| #6 Anglicans are related to the Church of England. Recently, at least in England, they have been showing signs of derangement syndrome; embracing sharia law, etc. "I tell ya, I was hitting the Holy Communion sauce and had a little too much. I didn't know Trapper was a dog." |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-07-28 10:19 |
| #5 Lucky the church was not utraquist. She would have to fetch a bowl for the doggie as it would be unable to drink from a chalice. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2010-07-28 04:33 |
| #4 The difference between the German Shepherd and a politician is that the dog still has a soul. |
| Posted by: Swamp Blondie 2010-07-28 02:24 |
| #3 This just goes to show how low the Anglican Church has sunk : politically correct little priestess denigrates and demeans the Holy Eucharist by feeding it to an animal. Nice heretical spit on Christ's suffering and sacrifice on the cross, Canadian tramp. |
| Posted by: Shieldwolf 2010-07-28 02:00 |
| #2 "I thought it was a nice way to welcome me into the church. I thought it was acceptable. There was an old lady in the front just beaming when she saw this." I think God might have chuckled a bit. Nicely done Reverend Rea. You and Mr. Keith may have begun a trend. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-07-28 01:07 |
| #1 But, But, But, ALL dogs go to Heaven. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-07-28 00:16 |