Posted on 01/05/2017 8:15:27 PM PST by marshmallow
Commenting on the controversy over Pope Francis's letter on the family, Amoris Laetitia, which suggests that divorced/remarried Catholics may receive the sacrament of Holy Communion at Mass, Cardinal Raymond Burke said, regardless of interpretations, Pope Francis's letter "cannot change" what the Church has always taught on this topic and which was clearly explained in Pope St. John Paul II's letter in 1981, Familiaris Consortio (On the Role of the Christian Family in the Modern World).
“In my judgment, what needs to happen is that the faithful know that whatever is written in Amoris Laetitia [The Joy of Love] cannot change what St John Paul II set forth in Familaris Consortio, because what was set forth is the constant teaching and practice of the Church, and therefore it is magisterial," said Cardinal Burke in a Dec. 15 interview on EWTN's The World Over With Raymond Arroyo.
“Exactly what Pope St John Paul II [wrote] is what the Church has always taught and practised," said Card. Burke, "and my concern is that Amoris Laetitia seems in some way to permit an interpretation which leads to a practice which contradicts the constant practice of the Church. And that simply is a source of the gravest concern for me."
In Pope St. John Paul II's letter, it states, "the church reaffirms her practice, which is based upon sacred scripture, of not admitting to eucharistic communion divorced persons who have remarried. They are unable to be admitted thereto from the fact that their state and condition of life objectively contradict that union of love between Christ and the church which is signified and effected by the eucharist."
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Raymond is not going quietly.
That was right from the movie TOMBSTONE! Hell is coming!
I bought the movie and watch it occasionally. FABULOUS movie!
"You tell 'em I'M coming... and Hell's coming with me, you hear?!" Best movie Kurt Russell ever made. Michael Biehn was great as "Ringo." All around GREAT Western!
Right up there with HIGH NOON!
A+
**In Pope St. John Paul II’s letter, it states, “the church reaffirms her practice, which is based upon sacred scripture, of not admitting to eucharistic communion divorced persons who have remarried. They are unable to be admitted thereto from the fact that their state and condition of life objectively contradict that union of love between Christ and the church which is signified and effected by the eucharist.”**
BTTT!
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