[NKP_Vet]

Amen.

[kenmcg]

Yeah, go after divorced Catholics, but continue serving communion to abortion loving pols and convicted pedophile priests.

[piusv]

Why is it that all we hear are others saying what Francis supposedly has said. Why isn’t Francis coming out and saying it explicitly for himself?

[Alex Murphy]

Amid widespread reports that Pope Francis might open the door to Communion for the divorced and civilly remarried, a Spanish bishop says the Pope told him that this scenario is not possible. Bishop Demetrio Fernandez of Cordoba, Spain said that during his ad limina visit to the Vatican earlier this year, the Holy Father told him that “the Pope cannot change” what Jesus Christ has instituted.

IB4TPWMA

[The_Reader_David]

I wonder about the context of the remark. Our Lord in some of his comments on divorce and remarriage made an exception for unchastity, which you Latins have ignored in your canon law, and which we Orthodox have instantiated in ecclesiastical divorces in which the innocent party can be given permission to remarry — not just in cases of the divorce of an adulterous spouse by the aggrieved innocent spouse, but for divorces of a husband by a wife whom he has tried to force into prostitution (a slightly different application of the for porneia exception).

Jesus’s comments also call only the party initiating the divorce and remarrying an adulterer (with the exception for porneia), but say nothing about a chaste spouse unjustly divorced being an adulterer should she (under Jewish law it would have been she) or he remarry. There is room for modification of your rigorist stand without violating the plain meaning of Our Lord’s injunctions on the matter, and without opening the floodgates to imitating the anything goes attitude of secular Western society. (Just as there is room for us Orthodox to tighten up our application of economia, often applied a bit too freely IMHO, to these matters.)

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Please feel free to send your second class folks, who are denied communion, to evangelical churches. We gladly accept them, teach them the Amazing Gospel of Grace, leading them to salvation in Him alone. This should solve the problem of having them darken the doors of RC churches as ungodly sinners. You can continue on with tradition.

We'll gladly help seek and save the ungodly.

"You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly." Romans 5:6

Will we accept the ungodly? Every day of the week - just like Christ does.

[GonzoII]

Bad headline. How can he?

[Salvation]

**Bishop Demetrio Fernandez of Cordoba, Spain said that during his ad limina visit to the Vatican earlier this year, the Holy Father told him that “the Pope cannot change” what Jesus Christ has instituted. **

Praying this is true.

Divorced Catholics can always receive Communion UNLESS they remarry.......then they are complicit the sin of adultery.

[narses]

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[Unam Sanctam]

I pray this is so, but then why did the Pope praise Kasper? What is he up to with that?