Posted on 12/09/2014 1:53:11 PM PST by prairiebreeze
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Beware of false teachers, Mr. Pope. Including, apparently, yourself.
Frances is doing to the Church what Obola is doing to America.
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
BEING QUEER IS NOT ABOUT CHILDREN IT’S ABOUT SEX..
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