Posted on 03/03/2017 5:42:08 PM PST by marshmallow
The archbishop said he would like Pope Francis to answer the dubia
Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia has said that it would be good for Pope Francis to answer the dubia, and that Francis cannot contradict Pope St John Paul II’s teaching on marriage.
In an interview with Crux to mark the publication of his new book, Archbishop Chaput was asked what he thought was at stake in the debate over marriage and Amoris Laetitia.
The document does not mention Communion for the remarried, but some bishops, including those of Malta and Germany, have claimed it authorises the practice.
John Paul II and Benedict XVI reaffirmed Church teaching that the remarried may not receive Communion, except possibly when they try to live “as brother and sister”.
Archbishop Chaput said that this teaching, and Jesus’s prohibition of adultery, could not be changed: “It seems to me that it’s impossible for us to contradict the words of Jesus, and it’s also impossible for a teaching to be true 20 years ago not to be true today when it’s the teachings of the pope.
“The teachings of Pope Francis can’t contradict the teachings of John Paul II when it is a matter of official teaching.”
The archbishop said that Amoris Laetitia should be interpreted “in the light of what’s gone before it, primarily the words of Jesus, but secondarily the teachings of the pope, the Magisterium of the Church. And so how can it be true that people can receive Communion when they’re living in an adulterous union today. How is that possible, when the Church says it’s not possible?”
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Could Pope Francis be an anti-Pope? Or, even worse, the anti-Christ? This all has a LOT of Catholics worried!
I have thought about this as well. The fight between John Paul and Francis would be a street fight
This may explain what I meant about Pope Francis bring, bizarrely, the world’s leading dissenter against the Papal Magisterium.
As Chaput says, Pope Francis hasn’t the authority to contradict his predecessors.
Three cheers for Archbishop Chaput!
This is why Archbishop does not yet have a Red Hat.
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