True. Examples would be the dogmas of the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption which were defined relatively recently.
However, Catholic doctrine cannot contradict itself such that what was right one day, is suddenly wrong the next. If the Church is wrong about Communion for the divorced, what else is it wrong about? The sinfulness of sodomy? And where does it end?
That is not "development" of doctrine. It is denial of doctrine and a rupture with tradition.
I remember my father talking about this to me last year when my mother passed away. My parents divorced in 1976 and my father remarried in 1978 and still is married to my step-mother. My father is Roman Catholic and my mother was Lutheran. He told me that when Mom passed on that he can now take communions since in the eyes of the Roman Catholic Church, he was still married to my mother until her death.
I have no use for the Catholic church. I was baptised in 1957, and my parents dragged me and my siblings to church every Sunday for 12 years. I actually had to make up a sin for my first confession. I quit them an 15 and never regretted it. My second wife wanted to become catholic but we couldn’t because I had been married and divorced already. Anyway, I don’t need Catholicism to get me to God. It is a system of social control. And I will never forgive the Catholic church for what they did to Galileo and especially Giordano Bruno.
In 1966, I was in seventh grade. Somebody asked the nun what if the Pope declared that there was no God. She said, “Then I would know that he’s not the Pope.”
This is basic. If Francis presides over and ratifies a synod that declares that adulterers may receive Communion, then I will know that he is not the Pope.
The bishops (Wuerl, Dolan, O’Malley, and about 95% of them), who want to keep giving Communion to pro-abortion politicians, are all for giving Communion to adulterers. They want the whole principle trashed.
Am I incorrect that both the theological positions of the Assumption and the Immaculate Conception are dogmas of the Latin Church? Is no communion for divorced and civilly remarried Latins also dogma? If not, is it not a disciplinary canon of some sort and therefore susceptible to being laid aside, like not going to a Jewish doctor?