Posted on 07/27/2017 6:13:53 PM PDT by ebb tide
The archbishop tasked with leading the Vatican’s pro-life academy says the Pope’s controversial teaching document on marriage opens Holy Communion to those in public grave sin.
Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia says Amoris Laetitia calls for “integration” of those in “irregular situations,” including “sacramental integration.”
The archbishop, who serves as Grand Chancellor of the St. John Paul II Pontifical Institute for the Study of Marriage and Family, famously commissioned a homoerotic painting containing his likeness for his former cathedral.
Asked in a recent email interview with the Diocese of Charleston newspaper The Catholic Miscellany to describe what Pope Francis’s frequently used concept of “accompaniment” should entail, Paglia cited one of Amoris Laetitia’s controversial passages in paragraph 297 of the document, which states that according to the Gospel “No one can be condemned for ever.”
The archbishop said accompaniment will vary in each situation, cannot be closed off from the community, and that “the pope urges priests to be priests, to accompany, and not to be judges from whom there is no appeal.”
“Amoris Laetitia provides some guidelines,” Archbishop Paglia stated. “Those who live in irregular situations, if they accept being accompanied in a shared faith journey in the Christian community (especially if the process is promoted and guided by the bishop), will be able to encounter various and gradual forms of integration, not excluding sacramental integration.”
“Accompaniment leads to overcoming unfair forms of exclusion and to appreciating the human, moral and ecclesial condition of others,” he said as well.
The term “accompaniment” has been a regular buzzword since the two controversial Synods on the Family in 2014 and 2015 signaling a sort of ecclesial escorting of Catholics in irregular unions back into the sacramental life of the Church. Very often in its use the crucial element of repentance and turning away from sin is excluded.
“Irregular unions” refers to homosexual or cohabiting unions, as well as those who are divorced and civilly remarried, though its use in these discussions has typically meant the latter.
Amoris Laetitia remains extremely controversial one year after its release, as its ambiguities have opened the door to Communion for the divorced and remarried, allowing varying bishops’ conferences worldwide to implement the document in divergent ways, and the pope persists in silence in response to requests for clarification.
Archbishop Paglia was appointed by Pope Francis last year as President of the Pontifical Academy for Life and Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical Pope John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family.
The appointments have been a part of indicating an apparent overhaul of the two institutions in favor of a departure from fidelity to Catholic teaching on life.
Archbishop Paglia dismissed concerns in a recent interview over Pope Francis’ controversial changes to the pontifical academy and theological institute he leads.
The pope had cleared previous Academy members out and replaced them, in numerous instances with individuals that support abortion, euthanasia and other things in conflict with Church teaching. Members are no longer required to sign a declaration of fidelity to the Church’s pro-life teachings.
Asked whether the changes made by the pope signified a reluctance to fight for Christian values, the archbishop stated, “My view is the exact opposite. I am so certain of the power of Christian values that I don’t feel a need to defend them, they defend themselves.”
The archbishop has defended controversial pro-abortion picks for Pontifical Academy of for Life appointees.
A book containing arguments for admitting divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to the sacraments was published under Archbishop Paglia’s purview in 2015 while he head of the Pontifical Council for the Family.
The archbishop himself has not been without controversy.
The Pontifical Council for the Family promulgated a controversial sex-ed program for youth in 2016 under his direction that used sexually explicit and suggestive images and departed from the Church's magisterium’s perennial teaching on sex education in a number of ways.
The program left parents out of the education process and failed to condemn harmful sexual behaviors that violate Church teaching, among many other problematic elements.
Reports surfaced this past March that Archbishop Paglia had commissioned a homosexual artist back in 2007 when he was a diocesan bishop to paint a blasphemous homoerotic mural in his cathedral church.
The giant mural covering the opposite side of the facade of the Diocese of Terni-Narni-Amelia’s cathedral church portrays Jesus carrying nets to heaven filled with naked and semi-nude homosexuals, transsexuals, prostitutes, and drug dealers, intermingling in erotic exchanges. The image of the archbishop himself is depicted among those in the nets.
Archbishop Paglia has defended the mural deemed by Catholic critics to be “blasphemous" and "disgusting," as well as "demonic,” saying it was part of a commitment to evangelizing.
Regarding his inclusion in the mass of nude bodies shown in the mural, he said, “I too am included in the mural as one who needs redemption no less than anyone else."
Don’t worry. You wont go to hell for it. Though you seem so insecure that you think you might. It is what it is. Live that phrase and relax. God gave us the Bible in. Follow that and pray more instead of worrying about what other people are doing or how they are sinning. Better yet let God decide. He’s better at it.
Hate to break it to you, but adultery is a mortal sin which will put one in Hell.
Receiving Holy Communion while in a state of mortal sin is an additional mortal sin for both the communicant and possibly for the priest who administers It, if he knows the state of the communicant.
Not fair. This was designated as a Catholic Caucus post.
This is not the place to try and change someone’s faith practised.
What you are saying is that the Catholic Church is totally unnecessary, indeed, a waste of time, and the path to peace is to ignore it.
It’s a point of view.
Both of your statements are true.
A fair question on the article may be “How does a pastor minister to the civilly remarried who now knows what they did was wrong, especially if both of the original spouses have new spouses?”
Something that is swirling beneath the surface is that all sinners should be encouraged to attend Mass, but it doesn’t mean that public sin is acceptable. In a very loose sense, the Church is like AA. Sinners are around other sinners to praise God and amend their lives. People should be accepted, even if the sin is unacceptable.
Turd in the punch bowl. That didn’t take long at all.
The fact that Paglia is anywhere but in a cloistered monastery doing penance, after appearing in the pornographic mural in his cathedral, and after publishing a pornographic sex-ed course for children, is an indictment of Bergoglio as an enthusiastic promoter of sodomy and other perversions.
Paglia is an open, explicit, blatant heretic. He is promoting adultery and the sacrilegious reception of Communion. Since Paglia remains in his powerful office, Bergoglio himself is an open, explicit, blatant heretic, who is promoting adultery and the sacrilegious reception of Communion.
Moreover, Bergoglio promotes sodomy. How? By leaving in place Cupich, McElroy, Cardinal Tobin, Dolan, O’Malley, Wuerl, Cordileone, and many other bishops, who encourage or neglect “gay-affirmative” parishes and “ministries.”
To which we must ask, "And what about the next marriage, and the one after that?" Is there a limit to this "accompaniment," or can a Catholic keep getting divorced and remarried (perhaps to a member of the same sex) and waltz up to Communion?
Faggotry is the bane of the Church.
The pope has gone against traditional teachings in a serious matter. He is wrong or the Church was wrong.
My hope would be that couple seeking help be committed to their marriage, as well as being committed to the salvation of their souls.
While divorce is an evil, sometimes, it is a necessity (abuse, violence, etc.). However, that doesn’t mean a person is free to marry. If that is the case, there is probably a case for an annulment, and then a regularization of the current marriage.
Going back to the general question, how do you keep someone engaged in the Church as they get their life together?
Couple that with endorsing adulterers and the LBGT crowd to the point of nearly giving them a free reign.
And, eroding Humanae Vitae in any way.
Well, it all adds up to no good.
As I see it, the holier than thou types fit this from Galatians: You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
But, w/o someone to point out as worse than them, they can't feel all superior.
love trumps all.
the rule on adultery had to do with knowing whose kid was whose, nothing more.
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