Ping
I see we’re reading the same websites. :)
Yet what the Pope said was: "A man, a woman, who feels bad at heart, sad, who has made so many mistakes in life, at a certain moment feels the waters move, it is the Holy Spirit who moves something..."
The Pope is literally describing the required prerequisite of repentance!
“Notice, that there is not 1 word about how the sinner is guilty of a moral offense: in the pope’s mind, the sinner is just 1 who made “mistakes”, and thus has no need to repent...”
Oh, good grief! He has preached about the necessity of repentance before: http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=17901
Rock star pope strikes again. He enjoys media adulation more than humility.
Is the pope catholic?
That used to be a rhetorical question.
Let’s not forget that Francis committed grave sin during his time in Argentina by allowing grave sinners, i.e., abortionists to receive Holy Communion. He also gave Holy Communion to the shacked up at each and every Mass where he was the celebrant.
One of the many foolish articles written despite several homilies by Francis urging repentance before forgiveness. Indeed, while in Buenos Aires, as Cardinal he called homosexual marriage the work of the devil and preached adoption by homosexual as child abuse.
If one is looking for anti-Catholic hits there are some other websites that may provide more HuffPo-type fodder than this one.
...With respect to the aforementioned new pastoral proposals, this Congregation deems itself obliged therefore to recall the doctrine and discipline of the Church in this matter. In fidelity to the words of Jesus Christ(5), the Church affirms that a new union cannot be recognised as valid if the preceding marriage was valid. If the divorced are remarried civilly, they find themselves in a situation that objectively contravenes God's law. Consequently, they cannot receive Holy Communion as long as this situation persists(6).
This norm is not at all a punishment or a discrimination against the divorced and remarried, but rather expresses an objective situation that of itself renders impossible the reception of Holy Communion: "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 his Church which is signified and effected by the Eucharist. Besides this, there is another special pastoral reason: if these people were admitted to the Eucharist, the faithful would be led into error and confusion regarding the Church's teaching about the indissolubility of marriage"(7).
The faithful who persist in such a situation may receive Holy Communion only after obtaining sacramental absolution, which may be given only "to those who, repenting of having broken the sign of the Covenant and of fidelity to Christ, are sincerely ready to undertake a way of life that is no longer in contradiction to the indissolubility of marriage. This means, in practice, that when for serious reasons, for example, for the children's upbringing, a man and a woman cannot satisfy the obligation to separate, they 'take on themselves the duty to live in complete continence, that is, by abstinence from the acts proper to married couples'"(8). In such a case they may receive Holy Communion as long as they respect the obligation to avoid giving scandal.