A Bizarre Papal Move

https://www.thecatholicthing.org ^ | September 14, 2016 | Robert Royal

[NKP_Vet]

So now we know. We knew before, really, but didn’t have explicit confirmation. The long, agonizing slog, however, is finally over: from Pope Francis’ invitation to Cardinal Kasper to address the bishops in Rome in February of 2014 to the pope’s letter last week to some Argentinean bishops affirming guidelines they had developed in a joint document that, in “exceptional cases,” people divorced and remarried (living in an “adulterous” relationship as we believed for 2000 years in Western Christianity), may receive Holy Communion. This whole affair is bizarre. No other word will do.

As I wrote on this page many times before the two Synods on the Family, daily during those events, and subsequently, it was clear – at least to me – that the pope wanted his brother bishops to approve some form of what came to be known as the Kasper Proposal. That he did not get such approval – indeed, that he got significant pushback from bishops from various parts of the globe – visibly angered him, and even led him into a bit of snark at the close of the second Synod, that some opinions had “at times” been expressed there, “unfortunately, not in entirely well-meaning ways.”

Well, one man’s not entirely well-meaning ways is another’s conviction about remaining faithful to the words of Jesus. And since then and even after the publication of Amoris laetitia, Catholics – indeed, the whole world – have been embroiled in tumultuous and fruitless speculation on whether things had changed or not. Even the notorious footnote 351 of Amoris laetitia, for all the worries it caused traditional Catholics, did not really come out and say what the pope evidently thought.

[NKP_Vet]

I would change only one word in this otherwise excellent article. Where Robert Royal writes "bizarre," I would write "heretical." Shacked up? Want to receive communion? No problem. History's first Jesuit pope and hopefully the last, says it's fine with him and don't worry about what Jesus said and please don't worry if it offends those mean old tradionalists that actually believe in the worlds of Christ.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

The German Bishops are doing to the Church what the German government is doing to Europe.

I guess they're still really mad about how WWII ended up.

[soycd]

As long as he accepts islam, he remains ignorant.

[ebb tide]

Already been posted:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3469323/posts

[rmichaelj]

Suppress the Jesuits!!!!