Posted on 04/25/2018 2:20:48 PM PDT by ebb tide
In the March 22 letter, published in full below, the seven bishops say they “do not consider” the German bishops’ decision on Feb. 20 to allow Protestant spouses to receive Holy Communion in some cases to be “right” because they do not believe the issue to be a pastoral one but rather a “question of the faith and unity of the Church which is not subject to a vote.”
The letter is signed by Cardinal Rainer Woelki of Cologne, Archbishop Ludwig Schick of Bamberg, Bishop Gregor Hanke of Eichstätt, Bishop Konrad Zdarsa of Augsburg, Bishop Wolfgang Ipolt of Görlitz, Bishop Rudolf Voderholzer of Regensburg, and Bishop Stefan Oster of Passau.
The German bishops voted overwhelmingly in favor of the proposal at their Spring plenary meeting in Ingolstadt on Feb. 20, and the letter’s signatories affirm that out of the 60 bishops present, “13 voted no, including at least seven diocesan bishops.”
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Yay!
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Oh. Not so much then.
National Catholic Register must be excerpted.
You can always click on the link to read the full article.
Good for Benedict and the 7 Bishops. Voting on Catholic dogma!
It’s right there.
Look again at your link.
To worthily receive Communion, one must believe the whole of the magisterial teaching of the Church.
Being in a divorced remarried status demonstrate disobedience to those teachings and no mushy, modernist words can change it.
I don’t think this case necessarily involves the divorced and remarried Catholics. Germany has already been giving them Holy Communion for years.
It’s in regard to giving Holy Communion to the non-Catholic spouses of Catholics.
I fear for the life of Pope Benedict.
Oh thanks. Sorry for mistake.
One of the hypocrisies of the Roman Catholic church is that if you're divorced and then have the (divorced) marriage annulled by the RC church, you are then free to remarry, receive communion and continue being a good little Catholic. Forget the fact that the 1st marriage produced children and the mother did not want the divorce. That RC "annulment" document treated the first marriage as though it never happened. Hypocrites! I personally know people who experienced precisely what I've described.
It is scripturally based doctrine that the risen Christ is present body, blood, soul, and Divinity in the Holy Eucharist. You simply cannot theologically and coherently believe in one and not the other. The Resurrection and the Eucharist are twin concepts. To deny the true presence of Christ in the Eucharist, is to deny the truth of his Resurrection. To deny the truth of the Resurrection is to be a heretic.
Despite all the exegetical treatises on the truth of the Resurrection, it is all reduced to complete pablum if one at the same denies the true presence of the risen Christ in the Eucharist.
It is flatly against Catholic teaching of two millennia that those who do not share this central belief be administered Holy Communion. This would be drinking judgment unto itself. Unforgivable.
I cannot for the life of me understand why any Protestant other than the already apostate looney denominations would even consider communing at a RC altar. We find the idea as repulsive as you do
As a confessional Lutheran I believe that in with an under the bread and wine are the true Body and Blood of Christ. However I would no more commune at your altar than you would want me to. There are too many other RC heresies that separate us. The true presence of Christ in His Supper is by far not the only thing that separates the RC church from bible believing protestants
Marriages are declared null not annuled. Qq
Any particular reason you care?
Because I'm a very caring person.
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