In other words, forget the Word of God—We’ll decide what is and isn’t OK.
Meanwhile, church membership continues to plunge.
They can still receive Reconciliation and Anointing of the Sick.
Their children can most be likely Baptized and Confirmed.
The unconventional couple cannot take Communion, cannot be Married, and cannot take Holy Orders.
Four out of seven is being denied the sacraments.
I’m denied one of those sacraments.
“in irregular marital situations are excluded from the sacraments, it “is an unjustified price to pay, in addition to de facto discrimination.””
True. A discrimination not found in Scripture to receive the Lord’s Supper and baptism. The rest are made up.
Won’t happen.
Genesis 1
English Standard Version (ESV)
26 Then God said, “Let us make man[h] in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” 29 And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. 30 And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. 31 And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
If the “unconventional couple” have purple hair or dress in kimonos, I don’t see the problem.
If the all-too-conventional problem is that they are living as husband and wife but not in a valid Christian marriage, that’s a problem.
irregular marital situations
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Hey, bishop, get a clue. That is called “shacking up”; there is no marriage.
Another Francis appointment, eh?
“who was appointed secretary-general of the Italian episcopal conference by Pope Francis.” Sorry gentlemen, but this is your holy by the bible leader? I would personally have to reevaluate my relationship with any religion that appoints and condones this kind of unGodly behavior.
Oh what fools some Bishops be.
He says “discrimination” like it is always a bad thing.
Where’s The Pope on this one?
Won’t happen.