corruption....pure corruption....
I remember the quaint old days when it was a major violation, according to the nuns, if we grammar school girls didn't have something to wear on our heads in church...or the boys didn't have ties...
the nun had a stash of lacey things we girls pinned to our hair and she also had a few extra ties for the boys...we went to church which was next door and we had to look proper....
the world has gone mad....
With these terms, the door has been opened.
This is just formalizing something that has already been done by bad priests for some time. While no priest can know the marital or religious status of everyone coming up for Catholic Communion, they DO know that Bill Clinton was ineligible, and yet he received Communion with permission from a bad priest.
( http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/07/us/president-took-communion-and-criticism.html )
Now it just means that if a priest openly gives Communion to someone in a phony marriage, that he has cover from the text of the Synod. I’ve seen this movie before.
You know, if they want to give communion to divorced people, maybe they have to permit divorce first.
I could see that, for valid reason, like adultery. That would make sense.
But you know, the RC church pretty much has kissed the behind of a million bad people, let’s just cite woman killer Ted Kennedy as one example.
So really who cares? Frances is the end of the church to me. He’s nine disasters in one gay loving, capitalism hating man. He’s like Obama, without the appreciation for luxury goods.
Thank you, Mrs. Niles, for another excellent essay.
“”[D]iscernment” is a classic Jesuit term [that] refers to the practice of making decisions in a prayerful manner.”
It is funny how the Jesuits pray when they need to defeat orthodoxy. However, they forget to pray when they see how their 28 universities are destroying the faith and charity of wealthy students. True discernment would lead to the prudent firing of old faculty and the deliberate hiring of new faculty.