US Cardinal [DiNardo] Voices Doubts on Vatican Reform, Communion for Divorced

Crux ^ | 2/14/15 | Micheal O' Loughlin

[marshmallow]

ROME — A US cardinal said he has some unanswered questions about the practicality of proposed reforms in the Roman Curia, the Vatican’s main administrative bureaucracy, although he praised efforts to clean up Vatican finances and to combat clergy sexual abuse.

Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, archbishop of Galveston-Houston, also told Crux in a wide-ranging interview on Saturday that he’s skeptical about proposals to allow divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to receive Communion.

That’s especially significant since DiNardo, vice president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, was recently elected by US bishops as one of four US delegates to an October Synod of Bishops at the Vatican, where that issue is expected to be debated.

On the subject of Vatican reform, DiNardo was reacting to a presentation given to all the cardinals of the world on Thursday by the pope’s council of nine cardinal advisors, which featured the idea of creating two new “super-departments,” one for justice and peace and the other for the laity and the family, by combining a number of smaller offices.

“But how are they going to do that, to find a way to put together a number of Vatican congregations?” he asked. “If you do that, the structure has to be different. And that I did not hear,” he said.

Other suggestions for reform, such as including lay people at the highest level of Church governance, will face resistance, he said.

“It’s fine by me,” he said of including laypeople generally. “The problem is, to bring anybody in as a head, there’s a question the canonists raise, can [a layperson] be head if they have delegated power [from the pope]?”

He said it isn’t possible to have laypeople lead major Vatican departments, such as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

You’re dealing with issues......

[Dr. Thorne]

For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus
on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread; and when He
had given thanks, He broke it and said, “Take, eat;[a] this is My body which is
broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” In the same manner He
also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My
blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.” - 1 Corinthians 11:23-26

He never said, "Unless you are divorced." What idiocy. He died for sinners, not perfect people.

[terycarl]

He never said, "Unless you are divorced." What idiocy. He died for sinners, not perfect people.

You need to read more thoroughly, Divorced Catholics can recieve the sacraments....divorced AND REMARRIED ones are banned because they are living in a state of sin, that of adultry....see??

[marshmallow]

Too bad you cut your Scripture quote at verse 26. The next three verses are the critical ones:

"Therefore whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord. But let a man prove himself: and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of the chalice. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord."

1 Corinthians 11: 27-29.

[piusv]

Other suggestions for reform, such as including lay people at the highest level of Church governance, will face resistance, he said.

Is this really all that surprising? Lay people are already at the highest level of Church governance at the parish level. Much like Protestant churches. Just some more inevitable fruits of Vatican II.