Posted on 08/24/2015 6:03:21 PM PDT by marshmallow
Four years after the legalization of divorce in Malta, the head of one of the nation’s two dioceses has issued a pastoral letter on mercy for those who have divorced and entered into a civil marriage outside the Church.
“It is no secret that there is expectancy about the conclusions of the Synod regarding the pastoral situation of those who are divorced and are in a second relationship,” Bishop Mario Grech of Gozo said in his August 15 letter. “Those who propose that certain barriers between those who are in an ‘irregular relationship’ but who believe in Christ as Savior, and the rest of the community, should be removed, are in no way putting at risk the teaching about the indissolubility of marriage, but they are eager to make possible the experience of the balm of God’s mercy, particularly that kind of mercy which according to the Tradition of the Church, the penitent accedes to it when he is on the road of conversion, known as the via poenitentialis [penitential way].”
“God’s mercy is not only a doctrine alongside the doctrine of marriage and the family, but is at the heart of Christian doctrine,” he continued. “The promoters of ‘God’s justice’ may feel uneasy when confronted with this pastoral view.”
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If that was a “sin”, I thought Christ died for our sins on the cross as atonement and propitiation for our sins? Please explain.
Very disturbing. Surely a handful of bishops/cardinals can not defy Christ Jesus’ teaching and that of the Church who delivers it in His Word. Surely they can not wriggle and squirm under a damp stone and succeed in calling it “practicums” and not changes to Dogma. Ridiculous.
They flatter Satan and it can not stand.
Jesus died for our sins, but He cannot forgive sins of which we do not repent. People in “irregular marriages” or “second marriages” are not in a marriage at all. They are obstinate adulterers.
What we have, in much of the world, are bishops who do not believe in the Catholic Faith. They are traitors. They are angling for popularity, and they think the way to purchase it is to let obstinate sinners “come up and get a wafer”—which is what these bishops think Communion is all about.
Cardinal Wuerl, Dolan, DiNardo, O’Malley, and Archbishops Chaput, Cupich, Gomez, McElroy—and the vast majority of American bishops—are all non-believers who want popularity at the expense of allowing scandal and sacrilege.
I am thinking about the woman at the well with her five husbands and the one she was living with at that time, she was not married to him. He didn’t say go back and live with your first husband. I took it as “repent, get your house in order, woman, and marry the man you are with.” Other interpretations?
So Henry VIII was right after all. And all the English martyrs died for nothing. Looks like another generation is going to have to fight for what remains of orthodoxy.
The Catholic Church has been infested with heretics, homosexuals and outright Communists since Vatican II. It is the religious counterpart of the GOPe.
The jewish woman was under jewish law which allowed for divorce. Jesus, according to the Catholic faith brought marriage back to what it was supposed to be. Also note that while a woman or man is civilly divorced, they can still recieve communion. It is the “second marriage” that is the problem. To go back to the woman at the well, she was with a man that was not her husband. Going back to her first husband may be the right thing to do, but Jesus certainly wanted to stop her adulterous lifestyle.
If the Church loosens the bonds of marriage, won’t that loosen all sins committed against the Commandment “Thou shall not commit adultery”?
It’s an ongoing sin.
Christ said to go and sin no more... not just go back to your adulterous 2nd marriage.
In a case of true hardness of heart where no first marriage truly existed, get an annulment.
Well it is obvious . You do not understand the sacrifice at the Cross for YOU. At the moment of Christ sacrifice, everything changed— Did it not? Or did Christ die for nothing?
How do you come to that conclusion? Really, you are way off base here. Repent, go and sin no more. Jesus died on the Cross for all of us sinners. What don’t I get?
The remedy is there, and the remedy is repentance. We have a Sacrament for that.
Sir, you do not understand Christ’s death on the Cross. What was that for,Sir? When Christ addressed the status prior to His Atoning Sacrifice , the status of God and Man was totally different than after His atonement — right? Or did He die for nothing?
Which is why it Will. Not. Happen. My guess is that it will be similar to Humanae Vitae. The teachings of the Faith will be upheld (although with this pope there may be some obscutary language thrown in). Then many/most bishops and priests will ignore it. Any bishops that try to discipline errant priests will be told to tone it down.
We’ve been down this road before. One silver lining is that the younger priests are the more faithful now. As time gos on the priesthood will likely reassert the teaching on marriage.
If you don’t repent— is that a sin? and are you saved by the atonement of Christ for the sins on man—— or not?
My sister is married to a divorced Catholic. They both go to church and he takes communion. He’s even on the Parish council, helping the pastor with the books. I don’t think all that annulment business is really necessary. He didn’t bother with it and he’s just fine.
Christ is the greatest of Lovers --- but He is not a rapist. If you decide at the end that you love your sin more than you love Him, He will not beat you unconscious, grab you by the hair and drag you into Paradise.
Though He would die to save you. And He did.
Well put. Repentance is a joke. if He died for your sins and you believe
He certainly didn’t die so his church could make him a liar.
I would encourage you re-read Matthew 19:9... denying the reality of marriage quickly escalates to denying all of scripture... not to mention denying the imporance of repentance.
How did that work out for Anne Boleyn?
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