“Let’s wait if this couple will be allowed to receive Communion in the US once this new papacy has settled and all groundrules have been established.”
Our approach to viewing the deeds of this papacy should certainly be prudent. At every point, I will look to our Holy Father to start to do the right thing. Perhaps there was some reason for the blasphemy at the papal Mass.
Perhaps he'd ordered that the pro-aborts not be given Holy Communion, and he was disobeyed. In that case, he needs to get better control over his own household.
Perhaps he hadn't had time to think about it, and thus, along with many other details, it slipped his mind. I hope that he will not continue to relegate the matter to a low priority.
Perhaps he thought this isn't the time or the place. With such a judgment, I disagree, but it's his show, and he gets to run it as he sees fit.
Or perhaps, he doesn't believe that generally, it's really such a great idea, after all, in which case, the article is wrong, is raising false hopes among those who would like to see a greater discipline, and should be disregarded. Which is more or less what I implied in my first post.
Time will tell.
But right now, I don't think there's appropriate cause to believe that things are going to change on this topic. I figure he'll do what Benedict XVI did - occasionally say something contrary to actual practice, which will get large numbers of Catholics all excited, but then nothing will be done, nothing will change.
Hope I'm wrong. Not betting the farm on it.
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Our approach to viewing the deeds of this papacy should certainly be prudent. At every point, I will look to our Holy Father to start to do the right thing. Perhaps there was some reason for the blasphemy at the papal Mass."
Excellent advice.