Posted on 04/23/2014 9:41:45 AM PDT by marshmallow
Pope Francis has phoned a divorced and remarried Catholic woman in Argentina to tell her that she could "safely receive Communion", according to an extraordinary report in La Stampa.
The woman's husband, writing on Facebook, claims that the Pope – introducing himself as "Father Bergoglio" – spoke to his wife, who'd been divorced before marrying him and told her that men or women who were divorced and received Communion weren't doing anything wrong. He apparently added that this matter is under discussion at the Vatican. (Quick health warning: given the complexity of this subject, we need much more clarity on what Francis reportedly said. I find it hard to believe that he would make such an unqualified statement.)
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I don’t believe this story.
He was mistranslated. He was speaking to a gay couple in Argentina.
Hey, I have a question about Church law. I need to get Il Papa on the phone to clear things up.
“Hey, this is The Pope.” “Uh-huh. Riiiiight.”
It wouldn’t surprise me if he did say it. I could see receiving Communion, but only if had been chaste for over 20 years like me.
He DOES make calls like that. No one disputes that part of it.
This is not authentic. The Pope did not call the woman. This is wishful thinking on the part of the media.
Hope the rule changes to allow communion. Sometimes divorces have to happen and the person remarries rather than spend the rest of his/her life alone. Communion shouldn’t be removed from that person.
Sorry. Not buying this for one second. Any nut could have made that call.
"Frankie, baby! ¿Cómo andás?"
“Hello, this is Je . . . the Pope.”
Not sure if this is real or not and that’s the besr I can give this Pope.
I actually find it interesting that the story says he calls himself “Father Bergoglio”.
Ping
“and told her that men or women who were divorced and received Communion weren’t doing anything wrong”.
Yea right, and I saw three Bigfoots outside my window a few minutes ago and I’m having coffee with two of them now. The other one ran off.
we had a guy call us from Kenya, promised us the bank would let us have $10,000,000 (and all we had to do was send him a thousand dollars for the secret authorization code)
That wasn’t Father Guido Bergoglio was it?
Why it was a miracle. There is no reason for a divorced person to be refused communion.
Wouldn’t he be more likely to call himself ‘Bishop’?
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