Posted on 09/08/2014 4:43:56 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
The latest to call for a radical change in the Church's practice and doctrine on marriage is the Belgian bishop of Antwerp, Johan Jozef Bonny.
He did so in early September with a thirty-page memorandum in multiple languages, which he also sent to Pope Francis.
Because the presumed support of Jorge Mario Bergoglio is inevitably part of the arguments of the cardinals, bishops, and theologians who are calling for the change, which would mean granting Eucharistic communion to the divorced and remarried: a key argument of the synod of bishops on the family set to have its first session in Rome this October.
Pope Francis has never said explicitly what his position is in the dispute - to which he intentionally gave free rein - between the proponents and opponents of the change.
When, for example, he defended in strong words the encyclical of Paul VI "Humanae Vitae," he disappointed the innovators, who see that very encyclical as an emblem of the disastrous detachment of the magisterium of the Church from the spirit of the times and the practice of the faithful themselves.
But on the contrary there are are increasingly numerous testimonies on how Bergoglio, as an archbishop, encouraged his priests to give communion to the cohabiting and remarried. He himself, as pope, spoke by telephone last April with a civilly divorced and remarried woman of Buenos Aires and advised her to “go receive communion in another parish if her pastor did not give it to her.” This according to the woman's account, which has not been refuted.
(Excerpt) Read more at chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it ...
On the other hand this is not a new teaching. If you marry divorce and then remarry you are not allowed the Eucharist. No true Catholic can deny knowing this teaching. It's really not that hard. On the other hand if you can out live your ex, you can be allowed back in. ;)
Do you think that if your spouse commits adultery that that is grounds for an annulment and later remarriage?
No and neither does the Church.
I agree too, but only learned that much later.
And my point is: how many Catholics, who completed pre-Cana and CCD in the last 40 years, actually understand that doctrine, that you can never remarry if your spouse cheats on you, before entering into a Catholic Marriage? How many today understand this and other doctrines on the gravity of Marriage? If not, is it their fault completely, or has the Church, all us, let them down?
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