Posted on 12/01/2015 7:39:28 PM PST by marshmallow
"It's not a matter of following your conscience."
VATICAN CITY - Earlier this month, Pope Francis stirred controversy when he expressed comments about intercommunion while addressing a gathering of Lutherans in Rome.
Responding to a question from a non-Italian Lutheran woman who voiced her regret that she couldn't receive Holy Communion with her Catholic husband, the pope said that while he would never dare give permission for her to receive the Eucharist because it's not his competence or jurisdiction, he said she should "talk to the Lord and then go forward."
Owing to confusion over the pope's words, we asked Cardinal Robert Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments, and Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Astana, Kazakhstan, for their opinion on the matter.
Cardinal Sarah offered initial comment, saying: "Intercommunion is not permitted between Catholics and non-Catholics. You must confess the Catholic Faith. A non-Catholic cannot receive Communion. That is very, very clear. It's not a matter of following your conscience."
His Eminence also responded to several questions:
Could a priest give Holy Communion to both husband and wife if he knows one is Catholic and one is not?
No, we give Communion to Catholics. Many priests have told me: "I give Communion to everybody." It's nonsense.
Sometimes, an Anglican who is very far away from his church for a very long period of time and who desires to receive Communion, can participate in Mass and receive Communion in the Catholic Church, where there is no sin, and he is properly married. Because they believe in the Eucharist, even if in the Anglican church is it not actually the Eucharist because there is no priesthood. But it is rare and would happen under very exceptional circumstances. This is something extraordinary and not ordinary.
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LOL.....and last month....and the month before that.....and practically every month since March 2013!
The invention of the word “conscience” was unnecessary and unfortunate. All it accomplishes is to create the false impression that each of carries around inside an independent little “voice of God.” Some theologians even use that idiotic expression.
The Church teaches what is the right or wrong thing to do, and each human’s duty is to behave in a manner consistent with what the Church teaches.
Pretty incredible imo that we drew this Pope and BO at the same time...like a manifestation of God wrath right before our eyes.
Yeah. My feelings exactly. When the entire West is governed by anti-Christian Marxists, intent on flooding Europe and North America with Moslem savages and drug gangs, and we turn to the Pope to, perhaps, wake some people up, we find just another anti-Christian Marxist.
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