[ebb tide]

Coming up next:

Possible outlines to cohabitation, artificial birth control, abortion, euthanasia, homo-marriage, etc.

[Legatus]

From the article: At the same time, "there is no human situation absolutely without hope or solution," he said Catholics profess their belief in the forgiveness of sins in the Creed, he explained. "That means that for one who converts, forgiveness is possible. If that's true for a murderer, it is also true for an adulterer."

The murderer has to stop murdering so doesn't that mean the adulterer has to stop... adultering? How can someone who continues in adultery be said to have converted?

The hope or solution for human situations that are sinful are for the humans to stop sinning. How is this confusing to a cardinal of the Roman Church?!

[Sapwolf]

I’m a fallen-away Catholic who is divorced.

Look....if Pelosi can receive the Eucharist..I can make myself the Pope.

[DManA]

There already is a path. Don’t call it divorce, call it annulment.

[ebb tide]

But sin entered the world almost immediately, which is why even the Bible is filled with stories of husbands and wives hurting and betraying one another, he explained.

Well, Kasper, the Bible is also full of murder, sodomy, and incest. Should we also make exceptions for those who suffer "failure" to such sins?

[nothingnew]

... he allowed for the possibility that in very specific cases the church could tolerate, though not accept, a second union.

Sounds like BS to me.

All organized religion sounds the same to me.

Follow Jesus and His words. That's all.

FMCDH(BITS)

[ebb tide]

...the church could tolerate, though not accept, a second union.

Dang. That sounds like something Obama would say about Syria or the Ukraine: "tolerate, though not accept".

[trebb]

I find it odd that Catholics are so bent on disallowing the rites/sacraments that they consider necessary for salvation to so many who will not bend to their will and to the same rules that came out of the Council of Trent over 1,000 years after Jesus died for all our sins.

Reminds me of a story in the Bible where God sent Jonah to this evil/wicked place to try to turn them around so they could be saved. Jonah decided that he wouldn't go because he was afraid they might actually be saved and his personal thoughts were that they didn't deserve to be saved. -- We all know how that worked out.