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A minor note, but in Barr's defense, the death penalty was permissible up until recently.

"One bread, and one body". Of Christ.

There really is no problem. The bishops are gearing up to address whatever needs to be addressed. We just keep coming to Mass.

Rather, the non-child-rapists were deceived by violent criminals whose particular ability was to find situations where they could take advantage of innocent people through deception in order to rape children with impunity. The level of dishonesty with child rapists rivals only the level of...

1st Corinthians 10:17 "For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread." Among many other things!

The kids were the victims most hurt by the child rapists of course. But those people, those violent criminals, took advantage of everybody in order to avoid detection and keep raping kids. There were more victims than the kids, though of course, they were the ones absolutely most harmed...

That's your interpretation. There's really no such thing as a 'really good Catholic', there are just those who maintain full communion and those who don't. If we examined his personal life, if he weren't a politician, I doubt that anybody would doubt his Christian faith.

He values coming to Mass, and that, barring some convincing evidence that it's just for 'optics', comes from faith. His position has been what a lot of Republicans have also offered---something like, I'm personally opposed to it, but I'm not going to try to impose my religion upon the public.

Well looky looky: I don't know for sure about the source, being a "blog", but it's published by CNN: https://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2013/11/23/how-catholic-was-john-f-kennedy/ Quotes:

I'd heard otherwise, but I'm curious now so I'll look into it.

What optics has him looking good, coming to Mass every week basically without fail, to Christ's Church, that openly and to this culture, flagrantly, condemns LGBTQAI+(etc.) "love" as grave matter and even calls it 'disordered'? It's not just that the Church won't marry homo-genital...

Catholics face Him at every Mass, whether or not we partake of the altar, as He is Really Present in the Eucharist. He is why we kneel there.

Unsure on that particular hypothetical, but I am sure that precisely none of the child rapists ever "confessed" to anything. These cretins are violent criminals and rival only serial killers in their dishonesty. Lying and murdering and raping kids is all the same to them.

Sure you have. You've heard that he attends Mass weekly, and has for very many years basically without exception. He goes to Mass even when he leaves the country. In this day and age, there is simply no other good explanation for a Catholic coming to Mass weekly unless he really believes in...

It's rare for a priest /celebrant to withhold Communion unless the sin is publicly known, which is why this is a discussion, because obviously President Biden's policy positions are publicly known. But until the bishops weigh in (and maybe the pope needs to be involved too), it's far from clear...

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I remind you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_abuse_cases_in_Southern_Baptist_churches Child rapists /molesters /paedophiles /pedophiles are violent criminals. Their victims are the children and also everybody else who they satanically deceive in order to avoid being detected. lol

OK. I don't know that I agree, but mainly I don't see how this pertains to the thread, unless you're implying something, but not stating it? Faithful Catholics are in subjection to what the Bible teaches. That's in the Bible.

The following is a decent summary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_sin#Actions_constituting_grave_matter The authoritative published source is the Catechism of the Catholic Church though, and not, obviously, a Wikipedia article.

Don't commit grave sins. Assuming he's not doing any of those (without first reconciling with the Church in the confessional) then he's maintaining full communion. Incidentally one of the things he must do to maintain full communion is to come to Mass weekly.