Posted on 03/17/2015 6:01:11 PM PDT by Brian Kopp DPM
The folks in Rome pushing the agenda for the divorced and remarried must not have read this.
Nor did they read Pope John Paul II’s encyclical on the Family.
We need to be direct about who “they” and “The folks in Rome” are. Cardinal Kasper is one of them but he’s not the ringleader is he?
Wow - 3600+ words. I think there are one or two on this forum that could sum it up in less than 100.
Pope Francis wants to change two major Catholic laws he sees as 'archaic'
I think most FReepers can overcome the natural tendency to sloth and handle a little academic/theological rigor.
“Remaining in the Truth of Christ
Marriage and Communion in the Catholic Church”
In this volume five cardinals of the Church, and four other scholars, respond to the call issued by Walter Cardinal Kasper for the Church to harmonize “fidelity and mercy in its pastoral practice with civilly remarried, divorced people”. The contributors are Walter Cardinal Brandmüller; Raymond Cardinal Burke; Carlo Cardinal Caffarra; Velasio Cardinal De Paolis, C.S.; Robert Dodaro, O.S.A.; Paul Mankowski, S.J.; Gerhard Cardinal Müller; John M. Rist; and Archbishop Cyril Vasil’, S.J.
Cardinal Kasper appeals to early Church practice in order to support his view. The contributors bring their wealth of knowledge and expertise to bear upon this question, concluding that the Bible and the Church Fathers do not support the kind of “toleration” of civil marriages following divorce advocated by Cardinal Kasper. They also examine the Eastern Orthodox practice of oikonomia (understood as “mercy” implying “toleration”) in cases of remarriage after divorce and in the context of the vexed question of Eucharistic Communion. The book traces the long history of Catholic resistance to this practice, revealing the serious theological and pastoral difficulties it poses in past and current Orthodox Church practice.
As the authors demonstrate, traditional Catholic doctrine, based on the teaching of Jesus himself, and current pastoral practice are not at odds with genuine mercy and compassion. The authentic “gospel of mercy” is available through a closer examination of the Church’s teachings.
“Because it is the task of the apostolic ministry to ensure that the Church remains in the truth of Christ and to lead her ever more deeply into that truth, pastors must promote the sense of faith in all the faithful, examine and authoritatively judge the genuineness of its expressions and educate the faithful in an ever more mature evangelical discernment.”
- St. John Paul II, Familiaris Consortio
http://www.ignatius.com/Products/RTC-P/remaining-in-the-truth-of-christ.aspx
Where does this leave us?
APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION
FAMILIARIS CONSORTIO
OF POPE
JOHN PAUL II
TO THE EPISCOPATE
TO THE CLERGY AND TO THE FAITHFUL
OF THE WHOLE CATHOLIC CHURCH
ON THE ROLE
OF THE CHRISTIAN FAMILY
IN THE MODERN WORLD
http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_jp-ii_exh_19811122_familiaris-consortio.html
Sorry, it wasn’t an encyclical, but an exhortation.
sorry Popie, only God can change God’s law
"However, the Church reaffirms her practice, which is based upon Sacred Scripture, of not admitting to Eucharistic Communion divorced persons who have remarried. They are unable to be admitted thereto from the fact that their state and condition of life objectively contradict that union of love between Christ and the Church which is signified and effected by the Eucharist. Besides this, there is another special pastoral reason: if these people were admitted to the Eucharist, the faithful would be led into error and confusion regarding the Church's teaching about the indissolubility of marriage.Reconciliation in the sacrament of Penance which would open the way to the Eucharist, can only be granted to those who, repenting of having broken the sign of the Covenant and of fidelity to Christ, are sincerely ready to undertake a way of life that is no longer in contradiction to the indissolubility of marriage. This means, in practice, that when, for serious reasons, such as for example the children's upbringing, a man and a woman cannot satisfy the obligation to separate, they "take on themselves the duty to live in complete continence, that is, by abstinence from the acts proper to married couples."(180)
Similarly, the respect due to the sacrament of Matrimony, to the couples themselves and their families, and also to the community of the faithful, forbids any pastor, for whatever reason or pretext even of a pastoral nature, to perform ceremonies of any kind for divorced people who remarry. Such ceremonies would give the impression of the celebration of a new sacramentally valid marriage, and would thus lead people into error concerning the indissolubility of a validly contracted marriage.
By acting in this way, the Church professes her own fidelity to Christ and to His truth. "
- APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION FAMILIARIS CONSORTIO OF POPE
JOHN PAUL II, 1981
In a private conversation with his longtime friend from Buenos Aires, Oscar Crespo, Pope Francis reportedly revealed his plans
I think even a godless 6th grader knows the difference between a direct quote and hearsay. He would also know that, as the public figure whose words are the most spun of any, such an attribution is more likely agitprop than factual account.
And yet the "faithful" have already condemned the Pope as the antichrist.
What has Pope Francis said or done that would lead any unbiased observer to believe what is reported in this story is NOT true? To the contrary, everything he has said and done, in particular his manipulation of the Synod process, simply proves his friend’s report to be 100% accurate. His attempt to change the 2000 year constant teaching on divorce and remarriage, based on the words of Christ in Holy Scripture, is causing grave disunity in the Church.
Annulment: "a legal procedure for declaring a marriage null and void."
Oooopps!!!....Forgot.... "only God can change God's law"
You are asking the merry-go-round to straighten itself.
curious. where does it say in the Bible that divorced/remarried Christians can’t take communion? Or is that a Catholic rule??
I should clarify my previous. I agree that very little of what the media offers for consumption would cause you to question your prejudice. But that is exactly the point.
divorced/remarried are in a state of sin, adultery to be precise
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