Posted on 06/18/2016 11:07:55 AM PDT by marshmallow
June 17, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – The official Vatican transcript of controversial remarks made by Pope Francis this week, in which he speculated that the “great majority” of Catholic marriages are in fact invalid, significantly alters his words.
While a video of the pope’s remarks show clearly that he used the Italian words “grande maggioranza” (great majority) to indicate the proportion of marriages that he believes are “null,” the official Vatican transcript changes those words to the more measured “parte” – i.e. a part, portion, or some.
Yahoo News reports that a Vatican spokesperson stated that the Pope’s words may at times be altered in official transcripts, “after consulting with him or among aides,” in the words of Yahoo News.
The pope made the impromptu remarks on Thursday after addressing the Diocese of Rome’s pastoral congress. He was responding to a question from a layman about the “crisis of marriage.”
In his response Pope Francis speculated that many Catholic couples getting married today don’t understand what marriage is, and enter marriage with a “provisional” mindset. Because of this, he said, “the great majority of our sacramental marriages are null.”
“Because they say, ‘Yes, for the rest of my life!’ but they don’t know what they are saying. Because they have a different culture. They say it, they have good will, but they don’t know.”
The statement has provoked a strong response from many Catholic commentators. On his blog, well-known canonist Ed Peters expressed disbelief. “I am at a loss to understand how anyone … could seriously assert that human nature is suddenly so corrupted and Christ’s sacraments are now so impotent as to have prevented ‘the great majority’ of Christians from even marrying! How can anyone responsibly even posit such a dark and dismal claim, let alone demonstrate it?”
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Hat tip for the link.
You are certainly very welcome.
The Papapologists have given up on “taken out of context” and “mistranslated.” Now they just change the record without telling anyone. Francis is the Vatican’s Obama.
Apparently they take us all for idiots.
Pope Fraud has no credibility.
The Pope is an idiot or a lunatic, probably both.
Actually I think it’s neither.
Good old Nikolai Yezhov. He was
swallowed up by the very purges
he orchestrated.
I think there is method to his madness; I suspect this is used as justification for granting annulments when all else fails...
"They say 'yes, yes' but they don't know."
I thought annulments were for only unconsummated marriages, the Kennedy family excepted, of course.
You're thinking of civil annulments, not Church.
Please read up on annulments.
You can start here.
http://www.catholic.com/video/how-can-i-explain-annulments-to-my-non-catholic-friend
Actually, pre-Vatican II valid grounds for annulments were minimal. It is only since Vatican II and the resultant 1983 New Code of Canon Law where there is much more leeway. There were 338 annulments granted in 1968 and 59,030 in 1992.
http://www.traditioninaction.org/religious/k012rpAnnulments_Stretenovic.html
Actually, pre-Vatican II valid grounds for annulments were minimal. It is only since Vatican II and the resultant 1983 New Code of Canon Law where there is much more leeway. There were 338 annulments granted in 1968 and 59,030 in 1992.
http://www.traditioninaction.org/religious/k012rpAnnulments_Stretenovic.html
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