Further Details On The Boy Not Being Confirmed

From this online Detroit news article, we see that there were two candidates who deviate from God's teachings on morality.  Moreover, they made the decision themselves to forego the Sacrament of Confirmation owing to their decision to support mortal sin.

Father LaMoine revealed further details and apologized for the actions of the Cihak family in their distortion of the facts and in their variance with God's word.

While the boys seemed to have decided for themselves not to be confirmed, Father LaMoine would have acted properly if he had outright forbade them to partake of the Sacrament.  It seems reasonable to believe that these boys would be in mortal sin owing to their willful renunciation of Church teaching; thus no sacramental grace would convey to them in that state.

These boys and their families stand in desperate need of prayer.  They flirt with eternal damnation by their flippant disregard for the word of God and His Church.  Before any of them can contemplate Confirmation, they should hasten to Confession.

Kudos To Bishop Hoeppner And Father LaMoine!

At Assumption Church in Barnesville, MN (diocese of Crookston) a group of students is preparing to be confirmed.  One of the boys, Lennon Cihak, broadcast on his Facebook page his support for gay "marriage".  Father Gary LaMoine informed him that he could not be confirmed in light of his flagrant dissidence from basic Church teaching.  Of course the boy's parents (who probably failed their God-mandated duties in fostering this dissidence) are all in a snit about this.  They are claiming that they've been told to stay away from Holy Communion until they profess repentance.

NOT eligible for Confirmation by a long shot!

Unlike our situation in Washington DC, the bishop there is not afraid of rabid backlash from perverts.  Bishop Michael Hoeppner is upholding his priest.  He stated that the boy could be confirmed if he publicly recanted his embrace of deviancy in front of the parish.  That makes sense to me, since the boy literally shouted his embrace of sin all over the internet via the picture he posted on Facebook (to the right).

His mother is shocked, just shocked!  Read her (less than) coherent statement on the matter: "You kind of know the Catholic beliefs, but I never thought they would deny somebody confirmation because you weren’t 100 percent. I guess that’s what shocks me."  Got that?  What is really "shocking" is that someone would want to be confirmed in a church whose teachings they did not embrace.  What is Mrs Cihak's angle here?

Pray for the repentance of the entire Cihak family and pray that more clergy will exercise the charity, courage and clarity as did Bishop Hoeppner and Father LaMoine.