Posted on 04/21/2016 12:07:54 PM PDT by ebb tide
Pope Franciss apostolic exhortation, Amoris Laetitia, has begun to change attitudes to Communion in the archdiocese of Milan, according to a senior official.
In an article for the Milan archdiocese website, Monsignor Fausto Gilardi, who is in charge of Confession at Milan Cathedral, says that there has been a growing demand in the diocese from the divorced and remarried for absolution and Communion.
Mgr Gilardis piece, which has been translated for the news website Crux, claims that some priests have changed their practice. He says that some have opened a tellers window for consultations.
Mgr Gilardi comments that this seems to contradict Amoris Laetitias warning against the grave danger of misunderstandings, such as the notion that any priest can quickly grant exceptions.
The article says that other priests have asked divorced and remarried people to enter a pastoral process, but he does not specify whether Communion is a possible goal.
Mgr Gilardi writes that in the last few days, the divorced and remarried have mostly not been disappointed by the invitation to a journey.
He also says that pastors arent called to impose a norm, but to lift up the value expressed through that norm.
Since its publication, Pope Franciss encyclical has generated differing interpretations. Much of the debate was over footnote 351, which some argued implied that the Pope wanted the Eucharist to be a possibility for divorced and remarried couples.
Last week, however, Pope Francis said that he couldnt remember writing the footnote.
Recent major statements on the subject, by Pope St John Paul II and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, had reaffirmed the Churchs traditional practice, which is that the divorced and remarried are not to take Communion unless they live in complete continence.
At the press conference following the publication of Amoris Laetitia, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn said that he didnt see why there should be a change from John Paul IIs approach.
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::snort::
I have always wondered why murderers and abortion supporting apostates like Nancy Pelosi can be given communion without any problem. Nancy Pelosi, a wicked and vile witch, can get communion every day she darkens the door of a Catholic church, but someone like Ronald Reagan would be prohibited.
What makes divorce a more vile sin than murder?
Just askin.
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