Lisbona said the pope told her she should go to Communion, though she did not provide many other details. She seems put off by all the fuss.Unfortunately this story has the ring of authenticity. I see no reason at present to doubt the veracity of the woman's claims as they simply reiterate what Cardinal Kasper has been spouting with the blessing of this Pope.
“This received too much public attention. He told me to go and take Communion in a different parish, but now I won’t be able to go anywhere,” she told the radio. The pope said he was “dealing with the issue” of Communion for divorced and remarried Catholics, and she added:
“Then he told me there are some priests who are more papist that the pope. He was completely normal with me on the phone and I tried to speak to him with the utmost respect. Now I am overwhelmed by the enormous effect this story has had and I feel moved by the fact that I spoke to Francis. I told him I would write to him again when I take Communion again.”
Very unfortunate. Thank you.
Is there any convincing argument which could explain why disregard for Church law might be confined to Holy Thursday liturgies and not spread to others matters ecclesiastical?
Did this strike anyone as much as me? He not only told her to receive communion but to go to a different parish to do so? So, in other words, he has advised her to go behind her pastor's back where no one knows her?