​These words must make a protestant cringe when read in bible study.  Here Paul is speaking to the Corinthians in his first letter in chapter ten. “Keep far away, then, my well beloved, from idolatry. 15 I am speaking to you as men of good sense; weigh my words for yourselves. 16 We have a cup that we bless; is not this cup we bless a participation in Christ’s blood? Is not the bread we break a participation in Christ’s body? 17 The one bread makes us one body, though we are many in number; the same bread is shared by all.” (Emphasis added). I feel sorry for the Protestants that laugh at the Catholics who partake in the body and blood of Christ every Sunday.  We Catholics have become a part of the body of Christ through transubstantiation.  Paul changed ordinary bread and wine in the body and blood of Christ when he was building the Catholic Church.  Christ gave him this power just as Christ gives the bishops and priests of the Catholic Church the same power to change ordinary bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ today. This transubstantiation was first accomplished by the master himself, Jesus Christ, at the last supper. And he gave the apostles a command to continue to do this in remembrance of Him. So when you Protestants start passing around crackers and grape juice in your worship service, remember the words of Paul.  You are worshiping idols, crackers and grape juice, and are foregoing the true body and blood of Christ.  You silly heathens.

​Pope Francis has declared that the death penalty is “inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person.” The Church in the past followed the reasoning of Thomas Aquinas who postulated that a murderer lost his human dignity and therefore, lost his right to life. But the question does not regard human dignity. If that be the question, then we are judging, are we not. Rather the question regards love of neighbor. We are to love all as we love ourselves. All life is created by God including human life. If abortion, murder and euthanasia are wrong, then the death penalty is wrong. Pope Francis made the right decision.