Posted on 12/06/2016 7:00:25 PM PST by NKP_Vet
From your mouth to God’s ear.
I have not read all 250 pages but it seems the only real issue is communion to divorced couples, right? On SSA, SSM, abortion etc he is on the traditional side or am I missing something else.
No, it isn’t. The faithful don’t have to choose sides in these matters until it affects them personally.
So you don't love you neighbor, as yourself?
By picking sides in their arguments?
Yes, we do have to choose sides. We are all called to spread the Gospel. So we have to know what Gospel we’re going to spread. The one given to us by Our Lord and Savior, or one that is different from that. By the very definition of being a Christian, it affects us personally.
What so hard about picking the Truth and then defending it?
Good luck to you.
Caridnalolatry.
No. I’m saying Jesus Christ speaks the Truth and that at least four orthodox cardinals agree with Him, as do I.
If you want to stand on the sidelines, so be it.
“But because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold, not hot, I will begin to vomit thee out of my mouth”. Revelation 3:16.
So the Church was "wrong theologically" until the advent of Bergoglio? Too great a stretch.
"As we said before, so now I say again: If any one preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be anathema." (Gal 1:9)
If you want to stand with the fake-fervent in Hell, the Luthers and the Mohammeds and the Albigensians and Marcel Lefebvre, then so be it.
The Cardinals do not speak authoritatively but merely ask questions. You are not standing with them by answering the questions yourself and neither is de Matteo.
Now if you were divorced and remarried and wondering about Communion, then yes--you would need to figure this one out.
Non praevalebunt.
I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and turning to a different gospel— not that there is another gospel, but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to that which we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again, If any one is preaching to you a gospel contrary to that which you received, let him be accursed. (Galatians 1: 6-9).
I’m quite confident of at least several things... that Our Lord meant it when he said that divorce and remarriage is adultery. That the Church has taught for two millennia that unrepentant adulterers cannot receive Holy Communion. That even the Pope cannot change that.
I will cast my lot with Christ and his clear teaching, as faithfully and authoritatively handed down by the successors to the apostles for the last 2,000 years, rather than in a non-infallible document that contradicts that teaching. You’re free to do otherwise, but I suggest you heed Galatians 1:6-9, above.
In faithlessness you have cast a lot where no lot need to be cast.
In faithlessness you have anathematized the visible source of unity in the Church because it aggravated your neurons the wrong way.
In faithlessness you set up the false dichotomy between Cardinals and Pope.
In faithlessness you judge what you have no authority to judge.
In faithlessness you doubt the promises of Christ.
In faithlessness you agitate in public against the bishops of the Church.
In faithlessness you revert to your Protestant ways.
Now repent you wicked, faithless man and embrace the Church of God in Sacramental Confession before death catches you unawares.
No, I wouldn't have to "figure this one out". I already know that committing adultery and receiving Communion in that state are both mortal sins.
Are you even a Catholic?
Are you drunk?
Are you still a Catholic according to canon law?
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