Posted on 10/13/2014 5:30:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If someone in Germany who is divorced and civilly remarried can receive Communion without being expected to change his lifestyle, why can’t someone in Africa who is “married” to two women do so as well?
That’s the question that Cardinal Wilfrid Napier, the archbishop of Durban, South Africa, asked in a recent interview with Catholic News Service. Napier added that a better way forward for the Church than the recommendation made by the German Cardinal Walter Kasper is to recommend the traditional Christian practice of fortitude in the face of suffering; the carrying of the cross.
“Jesus didn’t say ‘I want the easiest cross to carry.’ He took what was coming. And I think that in many instances married people who find themselves in impossible situations – second-married people – are maybe just called to do that, to carry the cross with Christ.”
Cardinal Napier, who earlier joined those bishops denying any possibility of a change in Catholic teaching, said the logic should be applied to the question of polygamy, a practice that is common throughout Africa....
(Excerpt) Read more at lifesitenews.com ...
Why bother getting worked up, they give communion to abortion shilling demons, is there anything lower? If they don’t have the will to stop that.............................Nope got nuthin.
Polygamy is actually mentioned in The Bible.
Contact (FReep) your Bishop!
http://usccb.org/about/bishops-and-dioceses/all-dioceses.cfm
Tell him that you don’t like the direction this synod is going.
“Why bother getting worked up, they give communion to abortion shilling demons, is there anything lower? If they don’t have the will to stop that.............................Nope got nuthin.”
I agree with you. And do you suppose those Queer priest out there are receiving Communion?
BTW I’m a practicing Catholic and coming up on 70 years old...
Polygamists in the Bible
http://www.biblicalpolygamy.com/polygamists/
And is treated as a concession to human weakness that falls far short of the ideal as stated by Our Lord in Matthew.
Welcome the sinner to change his ways, but so not condone and support sin...that not what a church is supposed to do.
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