[ebb tide]

(It's not at all clear that he said either that the death penalty was intrinsically immoral, or that Catholics are compelled to believe what he said.)

But he has now put that in the catechism.

I consider it no different than his publication of his letter in the Apostolic Signatura approving, and congratulating, the Argentinian bishops for their reasoning to give Holy Communion to unrepentant adulterers living outside a state of grace.

[Hieronymus]

I consider it no different than his publication of his letter in the Apostolic Signatura approving, and congratulating, the Argentinian bishops for their reasoning to give Holy Communion to unrepentant adulterers living outside a state of grace.

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Very good parallel. About 10 months ago I began to make the opening paragraph of Lumen Gentium 25 the cornerstone of my interpretation of a number of things from this papacy. There is a gap between what some people, quite possibly including the Pope, seem to want to teach and what is actually taught through real magisterial channels. That footnotes and things written by others are the “clearest” things in certain directions while the main body of the most official publications by the pope are duplicitous says a great deal—and in the end means that not much is said officially though great chaos is being sown.