Posted on 11/29/2013 7:01:56 AM PST by marshmallow
Church officials in Germany have defended plans by the country’s bishops’ conference to allow some divorced and remarried Catholics to receive Communion, insisting they have the Pope’s endorsement.
Robert Eberle, spokesman for the Archdiocese of Freiburg: “We already have our own guidelines, and the Pope has now clearly signaled that certain things can be decided locally.
“We’re not the only archdiocese seeking helpful solutions to this problem, and we’ve had positive reactions from other dioceses in Germany and abroad, assuring us they already practice what’s written in our guidelines.”
Mr Eberle’s comments followed the disclosure by Bishop Gebhard Furst of Rottenburg-Stuttgart on November 23 that the bishops’ would adopt proposals on reinstating divorced and remarried parishioners as full members of the Church during their plenary in March.
In an interview with Catholic News Service, Mr Eberle said “many points” in the Pope’s apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium (“The Joy of the Gospel”) suggested the German Church was “moving in the right way” in its attitude toward remarried Catholics.
Uwe Renz, spokesman in the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, also defended the bishops’ stance. He said he believed the bishops were acting “in the spirit of the Pope’s teaching.”
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Nope; the Pope has already done so: to each, his own!
So based on a quote in which Francis says that people should pursue what they believe to be good, you assert that he really said that they should pursue what they believe to be evil.
Such a transparently ridiculous argument can only proceed from malice or cognitive inadequacy.
“I like the Pope,” Pelosi said. She added that “the Holy Spirit did a really good job this time” picking the Pope and that Francis is “very nun-like in his attitudes, in his statements.”
Francis has gained a reputation as being somewhat progressive in his public statements on abortion, atheists and gays.
Pelosi is a practicing Roman Catholic.
http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2013/11/20/pelosi-i-like-the-pope/
Nope. Pelosi and NARAL, not I, are vouching for the Pope. You’re not doing too bad a job yourself.
You asked for full context and you got it. Who’s doing the misrepresentation here?
See now the only relevancy is what the Heavenly Father established from the beginning. It is His grace that amounts to eternity, not man made tradition to hold His sheep in their sheep pens.
Ephesians 6 was penned as instruction and warning as what to do and expect.
My question has always been no fault divorce..... I get married, have a kid and the spouse up and leaves and gets a divorce....
so now a 30 year old is to spend the next 50 years alone, or remarry and not be in communion with the church, all due to no fault of their own...
does not make sense..
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