Austrian parish understands Christ better than their priest

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VIENNA, Austria -- The parish church of Amras, Austria, near Innsbruck in Tyrol, was chock-a-block full for the first-Communion Mass on April 22. Shortly before Communion, the parish priest, Norbertine Fr. Patrick Busskamp, announced that only Catholics who were in a state of grace should come forward to Communion. Catholics who are divorced and remarried and Catholics who do not attend Mass every week were not worthy to receive the Eucharist, he said. 

When Communion time came, not a single adult came forward. The entire congregation demonstratively remained seated. Only the children received Communion.

The priest has forgotten how to serve Christ. There is no other way to put it. The Lord said you can recognize the quality of a tree by its fruit. Here is some of the fruit of Fr. Busskamp and others infected with the yeast of the Pharisees.

Referring to the high numbers of Catholics who are leaving the church -- more than 87,000 Austrian Catholics have formally left the church in the last two years -- one of the mothers of a child receiving first Communion told the press it was incomprehensible that the few remaining Catholics were being antagonized like this. Another mother warned that the patience of faithful Catholics is nearing its end.

Disobedience is the only answer to spiritually bankrupt Church leaders.