[dp0622]

I hated moynahan except for his brilliant “deviancy down” speech.

If we START with only allowing married folk to get communion, then MAYBE some will avoid the other types of relationships because of that.

If we START with gays and unmarried folk getting communion, where is the next level in the deviancy down?

[Arthur McGowan]

The Diocese of Rome has left the Catholic Church.

[MichaelCorleone]

I’m seeing some pushback with the rank-and-file and the Priests themselves. The majority being passive-aggressive in nature.

Vatican II was a mistake.

[Vaquero]

Francis is the anti-pope.

[piusv]

New guidelines about the interpretation of Amoris Laetitia issued for the pope’s own diocese of Rome suggest that couples living in a state the Church labels objectively sinful may in limited circumstances receive Holy Communion in a "discreet manner." The release of the new guidelines follows closely on the Vatican’s authentication of a letter from Pope Francis to Argentine bishops affirming that the only valid interpretation of the exhortation is one that similarly liberalizes sacramental practice.

So, (1) Catholics can blaspheme and commit sacrilege as long as they are hush-hush about it; and (2) anyone who merely focuses blame on the Diocese of Rome here is willfully blind. The so-called Catholic hierarchy there are merely following the Magisterium of their so-called pope.

[cloudmountain]

I think this mechanism has been around for a while.
I had an aunt (my godmother) who married a divorced man, my father's youngest brother.

She faithfully attended Mass and...managed to get to Holy Communion. I didn't even think of it until now. The first wife finally died and they had a Catholic wedding ceremony as well. This was DECADES ago.

I still miss my Aunt Nora. She was a PEACH.

[Does so]

The Church needs an unmarked side window.

[Salvation]

Father John Zuhlsdorf, who runs a popular Catholic blog, reacted to the Diocese of Rome’s new guidelines by writing that unless an unmarried, sexually active couple intends to live as brother and sister, then their reception of Holy Communion would be a mortal sin and sacrilege. 

[Salvation]

Beliving St. John Paul II.

**In 1981, Pope St. John Paul II wrote in his exhortation Familiaris Consortio:

…the Church reaffirms her practice, which is based upon Sacred Scripture, of not admitting to Eucharistic Communion divorced persons who have remarried. 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 the 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.**

[BlackElk]

So long as their faith is “progressive?????” Frankie the Apostate strikes again!

[BlackElk]

Also, Frankie continues to stack the College of Cardinals with additional apostates: Archbishop Blase Cupich of Chicago and Archbishop Joseph Tobin of Indianapolis (both for no discernible reason other than apostasy) are among 13 new voting cardinals to be appointed at a November 19 consistory.

In addition to reflecting Frankie's preference for apostasy, Tobin is also a cheerleader for the Islamofascist horde to overrun Indiana and has publicly clashed with Mike Pence over the matter which is in the jurisdiction of secular authority. An archbishop, regarding himself as "liberal" and, no doubt, as a "champion of the working man" climbs on board the cheap labor express to welcome ISIS to Indiana.

Archbishop Chaput of Philadelphia is passed over for the red hat AGAIN simply because he IS a Catholic. Likewise, Archbishop Gomez of Los Angeles who, as an actual Catholic, silenced his scandalous predecessor, Roger Cardinal Limp Wrist McPhony, for his shameful role in the sex scandals of the Los Angeles Archdiocese.

[windsorknot]

The argument against non-Catholic participation of Communion is starting to ring hollow.