Sacrilege: Canadian Prime Minister desecrates Host at State Funeral

Former Canadian Governor-General Roméo LeBlanc was buried on July 3rd. At the funeral mass, Prime Minister Stephen "Call me Steve" Harper was given communion -- a sacrament properly reserved for Catholics who are in a state of grace.

The priest distributing communion put the wafer into the PM's outstretched hand, according to the improper but common practice in the Canadian Church since the "reforms" of Vatican II.
Now...watch what Harper does with the Body of Our Lord! Here's the video, courtesy of YouTube. Watch at about the 30-second mark...

Your eyes are not playing tricks on you! He put it in his jacket pocket!!! When Harper took the Host, "everybody just paused and said, 'What did he do with it?'"‚" said one official who watched the pool feed with reporters who were not inside St. Thomas Church in Memramcook, New Brunswick. "You could see he was, 'Uh oh, I don't know what to do with this.'"

Monsignor Brian Henneberry, vicar general and chancellor in the Diocese of Saint John, wants to know whether the prime minister consumed the host and, if not, what happened to it. The New Brunswick Telegraph Journal quotes Msgr. Henneberry as saying that if Harper accepted the host but did not consume it, "it's worse than a faux pas, it's a scandal from the Catholic point of view."

It certainly is worse! It's a sacrilege! And it wouldn't have happened at all had Holy Mother Church not abandoned the traditional rules and practices regarding the Sacrament of Communion. Giving the Sacrament to non-believers, and giving the Host in the hand, even to believers, are contrary to the Faith of our fathers. Sadly, these practices are just two of the hundreds of poisoned fruits of Vatican II.

As for Steve, Walt hesitates to impute motive, but can't help but question the suggestion that the PM was just ignorant of the nature and significance of the Host. The PM is a self-declared Protestant believer. As such, should he not have politely declined communion, even it were offered by a misguided or negligent priest? Msgr. Henneberry says, "He should not have been receiving communion and if he comes up it places the priest in an awkward position, especially at a national funeral because everyone is watching."

The Prime Minister's office has not answered Msgr. Henneberry's question about what happened to the communion wafer. Perhaps Steve will answer if the Pope asks him when they meet later this week!