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I really need to take the time to write a piece on the ACT-UP “Stop the Church” demonstration in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, its press coverage, and the documentary Stop the Church, because it is truly one of the most prophetic moments in recent Church history and it’s just so forgotten

The theological weight of a Catholic ACT-UP member taking a communion wafer, breaking it, and throwing it on the floor is so intense, a prophetic condemnation of the Church’s hypocritical actions toward the corpus verum by showcasing  their offense at the same action being taken toward the corpus mysticum 

A refusal to allow them to believe themselves to be in communion with humanity and the Divine while sanctioning and justifying the desecration of the Divine body in the streets and in hospitals

Watch the documentary here: https://www.kanopy.com/product/stop-church