Posted on 09/15/2015 4:57:23 PM PDT by markomalley
A German bishop is advocating Holy Communion for divorced and civilly remarried Catholic spouses and urging a special blessing for same-sex couples.
In a recent interview with German newspaper Katholische Nachrichten-Agentur, Bp. Franz-Josef Bode of Osnabrück, Germany, admits marital indissolubility yet questions whether adulterous second civil marriages "might actually correspond better to God's covenant with human beings."
Here's his full response:
KNA: A major issue will be divorced and remarried individuals. You have advocated allowing such persons to receive Holy Communion under certain conditions. What are those conditions?
Bode: Marriage is indissoluble according to the will of Jesus. With a sacramental marriage, something is concluded that never dissolves easily. Through human weakness, this relationship can still break and fail. People can enter into a new relationship that is more mature, but which does not have the same sacramental significance as the first. The question is whether this new reality, which might actually correspond better to God's covenant with human beings, must always have, as a consequence, the exclusion from the sacraments of penance and Holy Communion. We should also consider the question of what circumstances led to the breakdown of the marriage. Up to now, we have dealt with everyone in the same way, whether they were at fault or not. In addition, all this is connected to the understanding of the Eucharist. Does the Eucharist really represent unity with the Faith and with the Church, or is it an aid for those whose lives involve real wounds? The fact that people cannot express these things in confession and obtain forgiveness — that is something that I find more difficult than the question of Communion. (emphasis added)
Further, speaking about homosexual relationships, he insists the subject is "a matter of recognizing the strengths of homosexuals."
"The Church," he believes, "can be of assistance in life partnerships through dialogue and positive support." In fact, Bp. Bode maintains that same-sex unions ought to receive a blessing.
KNA: The way the Church deals with homosexuals will also be an important topic, together with the kind of value that is placed on stable partnerships. Is there a solution in the offing for those questions?
Bode: The Catechism makes it clear that we do not discriminate against these people. Just as with other individuals who live together before marriage, it is also a matter of recognizing the strengths of homosexuals, and not simply their weaknesses and shortcomings. Civil unions are not to be equated with marriage. For us, marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman, and which results in children. The Church can be of assistance in life partnerships through dialogue and positive support. However, there cannot be anything resembling marriage. Nevertheless, one can accompany them with prayer and a private form of blessing. (emphasis added)
Bishop Bode's dissenting remarks are just the latest in an unfortunate trend of German heterodoxy. His defense of Communion for divorced and civilly remarried Catholics backs a proposal by Germany's Cdl. Walter Kasper, one of the leading voices of heresy in the Church right now. Further, Cdl. Reinhard Marx, yet another unfaithful prelate from the spiritually struggling nation, who speaks quasi-schismatically of independence from Rome, is no less than the head of the German bishops' conference.
Meanwhile, German clergy hardly even pretend to practice their faith sacramentally, as the country's laity flee from steep, government-enforced Church taxes.
Because his father is Satan!
ping catholic caucus
Why not add theft and murder—his own?
because ravenous wolves arent given to suicide??
A society that embraces pluralism (or frankly any “ism”) above all other values and which has abandoned G-d is sort of like a piece of meat on the street waiting to rot and/or be devoured. Who cares about the rot? Here comes Islam.
ISLAM The cultural Vulture
It is not coincidental that people who can’t discern right from wrong can’t muster the will to resist invasion.
The wages of sin is death... The wages of abandoning God is extinction.
With Francis and his SinNods, the heretics are coming out the woodworks, as roaches at night do so.
Makes me wonder if Malachi Martin’s version of the 3rd secret of Fatima is indeed the real one.
Consider the words of Our Lady of Akita:
"As I told you, if men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge, such as one will never seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead. The only arms which will remain for you will be the Rosary and the Sign left by My Son. Each day recite the prayers of the Rosary. With the Rosary, pray for the Pope, the bishops and priests."
"The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops against bishops. The priests who venerate me will be scorned and opposed by their confreres...churches and altars sacked; the Church will be full of those who accept compromises and the demon will press many priests and consecrated souls to leave the service of the Lord.
"The demon will be especially implacable against souls consecrated to God. The thought of the loss of so many souls is the cause of my sadness. If sins increase in number and gravity, there will be no longer pardon for them"
Well, after all, their priests belong to one of the oldest fag clubs in history.
Y’all have your hands full these days, that’s for sure.
2Ti 3:1 Know also this, that in the last days shall come dangerous times.
2Ti 3:2 Men shall be lovers of themselves, covetous, haughty, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked,
2Ti 3:3 Without affection, without peace, slanderers, incontinent, unmerciful, without kindness,
2Ti 3:4 Traitors, stubborn, puffed up, and lovers of pleasure more than of God:
2Ti 3:5 Having an appearance indeed of godliness but denying the power thereof. Now these avoid.
2Ti 3:6 For of these sort are they who creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins, who are led away with divers desires:
2Ti 3:7 Ever learning, and never attaining to the knowledge of the truth.
So, I take it that excommunication proceedings begin shortly?
I didn’t think so.
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