Posted on 10/24/2015 6:45:39 PM PDT by Salman
This afternoon the Vatican Synod on the Family amended and approved the final document summing up three weeks of chaotic and sometimes poisonous debate – much of it focussing on whether divorced and remarried people should be allowed to receive communion.
The majority view of the Synod Fathers is that they don’t want the rules changed. They especially don’t want one rule to apply in, say, Germany and another in Tanzania. Pope Francis has just given a cautiously worded (but also, alas, rather waffly) address in which he acknowledges as much ...
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.new.spectator.co.uk ...
Sounds to me like our Conservative Cardinals told Francis he wasn’t getting his way and we are living according to the Catholic Religion by not bending the rules...
Good for them!!!
The Spectator calls John McCain a conservative
It’s too soon to tell. Francis hasn’t released his final decisions yet and can completely ignore the Synod if he wants to.
It ain’t over ‘til it’s over.
your right, and Francis is hard headed enough not to do it...
Now if they impeach him and bring back Benedict, we will all be better off.
Is there a way to impeach a pope?
Is there a way to impeach a pope?
Yes God Takes Him Away... Pray for His Soul he Follows the Lords Will!
Is there a way to impeach a pope?
RC Freepers please comment. I do believe popes have been deposed. Not for a long long time, but there are precedents.
The 15th century was a mess, but if I remember correctly, those who were deposed also agreed to resign for good measure.
Beware the snake!
No. Unless somebody wants to declare him an Anti-Pope and that the conclave was invalid.
Francis is already old and has health issues as is, even he has admitted that he doesn’t see his papacy lasting more than a few years.
Popes tend to be old when elected.
I’m with you, Salman.
This isn’t over until it’s over.
The battle of voices inside the room was won, reportedly, but the creepy course of action to be taken is on track. The final write up was not accomplished by friendly sources, who incidentally are friendly with the Pope.
The pope will read this write up, and determine the course of action on its contents. Then, we will know.
Lifesite news is probably the better mainstream source. They are mostly uneasy.
“Conservatives” never win, because the Left never gives up, and never stops spinning, and spinning, and probing, and probing.
The Left has already won because they got the indissolubility of marriage, and sacrilegious Communion, ON THE TABLE. The POPE put it on the table. As a result, it will never be off the table, because the POPE put it there. Anyone arguing that Jesus settled the issue has ALREADY been accused BY THE POPE of being “locked up in the written word,” and being a “Pharisee.” The Left will keep making those accusations—FOREVER—as long as there are real Catholics defending the truth.
The Spectator is conservative? I’m amazed England allows them to publish.
The very fact that these formerly undebatable issues were on the table at all is an ominous sign that this church has been compromised. They would not have been brought up unless they were possible.
I don’t know, I am not Catholic. But if there isn’t, they damn well better figure out a way - FAST!
Once something is conceivable, and you can get your oppenent to defend against the construct, then it is just a matter of time.
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