Vatican: Bishops Should Move Forward on Family

ABC News ^ | Dec. 9, 2014 | NICOLE WINFIELD

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Among other things, the questionnaire asked how the church can care for families with gay children and discern "positive and negative elements" in heterosexual civil unions.

It also asked how the church can better provide sacraments for Catholics who divorce and remarry outside the church. Church teaching holds that without an annulment, or a church decree that the first marriage was null, such Catholics are living in sin and are thus ineligible to receive communion.

Francis has sought to end what he calls "de facto excommunication" for these Catholics, and the issue was a source of heated debate during the first family synod last October.

The new questionnaire urges bishops to "let yourselves be guided by the pastoral turning point that the extraordinary synod began to sketch out." It urged bishops not to turn in responses that were purely doctrinal in nature or ones that "start from zero" by ignoring what emerged from the first synod.

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Sure. Let's not let the Bible provide guidance as written, let's read into the Word the latest trendy, liberal agenda-driven interpretations and ideas. After all, the Apostle Paul was just a crank, right? Sodom and Gomorrah, just a coincidence, an act of nature, really. God must've not meant it when he labeled homosexuality "detestable". Probably just meant "uncomfortable". In fact, let's just forget that whole "God's definition of marriage" being between a man and a woman. He must've been just teasing us because he's as changeable as the wind, donchaknow.

Beware of false teachers, Mr. Pope. Including, apparently, yourself.

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Frances is doing to the Church what Obola is doing to America.

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Report: Popes Benedict, Francis at Odds Over 'Indissolubility' of Marriage

Pope Benedict XVI indicated in a Sunday interview with the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine that his views on marriage and divorce sharply diverged from those of his successor Pope Francis, and the Italian press was quick to report friction between the two.

Source is NewsMax with today's date

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BEING QUEER IS NOT ABOUT CHILDREN IT’S ABOUT SEX..