[ebb tide]

You’ve been all over the Amoris Laetitia threads; so don’t even try playing blind, deaf and dumb with me.

Thank-you.

[Mrs. Don-o]

You are mistaken. I am not "playing blind, deaf, and dumb." What I am asking for should be simple to supply if it's there: an actual statement, or ruling, or determination, that Holy Communion is now to be given to divorced/remarried couples outside of the usual conditions: either an annulment of the first marriage, or the second couple living in perfect continence.

My point is, the Pope said no such thing.

Oh yes, there was elision, there was insinuation, there was a quirky little footnote he says he can't remember writing, there was outright avoidance of direct questions on the subject ("Go ask Schoenborn, he knows theology") --- but canonical matters are not settled by winks and nods and forgettable footnotes.

That Pope Francis makes things so ambiguous that any knave can pinch the silly putty into the shape of their choice, is scandalous. It's gaslighting. I hate it. It drives me crazy.

But he did not say what he is alleged to have said: that the divorced/remarried may now receive Communion without definitively renouncing their present condition of adulterous union.

If you can demonstrate otherwise, do so. And please try to do it without further insults to me, personally.

Give it a try.

Thank you.