Posted on 05/08/2015 1:20:26 PM PDT by marshmallow
Five months before the upcoming Synod of Bishops, the Swiss Bishops’ Conference has published a report summarizing the results of recent discussions by Swiss Catholics on marriage and family life.
Six thousand persons, the majority of them clergy, catechists, and active parishioners, took part in the discussions, which were held between January and March.
“The exclusion of remarried divorcees from the sacraments must be ended,” stated Walter Müller, the bishops’ information officer, as he summarized Swiss Catholics’ “very concrete requests to Rome.”
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicculture.org ...
Satan is working overtime to kill the church starting with dissection of the family unit. Same sex marriage is the ticket and the homos know it...
And this is why the Church is not a democracy.
The Episcopal Church welcomes you.
Sorry, Swiss “catholics” ... the Church is not a democracy.
Those "investigations" must have slipped by your keen journalistic eye.
Disregard previous post. Wrong thread.
Wrong thread?
We must pray for the Church and the good shepherd who remain.
We have some Swiss Catholics at our parish, it is Latin Mass though. Mr Swiss Catholic said that at home if you go to TLM everyone assumes you are SSPX.
And you guys on FR talk as tho your religion is immune to this change...’It’s only the Protestants’...
As you will see in the near future, Martin Luther had the right idea...But even Marty’s religion(s) as we can see is falling by the wayside...
They (you) all have one thing in common...They are kissing the bible goodbye...
Did Jesus leave us a fallible Church, to leave Christians in perpetual confusion?
Or did a fallible man leave us a fallible, non-biblical, man-made tradition of Sola Scriptura?
What does the evidence say?
Matthew 28:18-20The Apostles are commissioned to teach all nations everything Christ commanded them, until the consummation of the world. The Apostles taught with Christ's authority, and their successors (i.e., Matthias) have Christ with them forever."All power is given to me in heaven and in earth. Go therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world."
John 14-16Christ threatens those who refuse to accept the Apostles' preaching of the gospel with damnation."Go ye into the whole world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be condemned."
John 14:16, 17Do the Apostles and their successors teach the truth?"I will ask the Father, and he shall give you another Paraclete, that he may abide with you forever. The spirit of truth . . . he shall abide with you, and shall be in you"... "But the Paraclete, the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring all things to your mind, whatsoever I shall have said to you.
John 16:13
"But when he, the spirit of truth, is come, he will teach you all truth."
1 Timothy 3:15
"the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth";
Matthew 16:18Christ promised that the Spirit of Truth would be with His Church until the end of the world. If His Church definitively teaches error, have the gates of hell prevailed against it?…And Jesus said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. "I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it. "I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven."…
Would Jesus threaten those who refuse to obey an erroneous institution with damnation?Matthew 18:16:18
"But if he does not listen to you, take one or two more with you, so that by the mouth of two or three witnesses that every fact may be confirmed. "If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. "Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.…
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