[ebb tide]

“If we speak explicitly about communion for the divorced and remarried,” said Archbishop Forte, reporting a joke of Pope Francis, “you do not know what a terrible mess we will make. So we won’t speak plainly, do it in a way that the premises are there, then I will draw out the conclusions.”

“Typical of a Jesuit,” Abp Forte joked, attributing to that suggestion a wisdom that has allowed the maturation necessary to conclude that Amoris Laetitia, as Abp. Bruno Forte explained, does not represent a new doctrine, but the “merciful application” of that [the doctrine]of all time.

As Forte reports, Francis jokes about sacrilegiously giving Holy Communion to unrepentant adulterers by making a " terrible mess".

[RobbyS]

It was such thinking that led Pascal to write the Provincial letters.

[Arthur McGowan]

It is not sinful to pray that the Pope enter eternal happiness, as soon as possible.

Pray that a new Pope may be elected soon, and that he will be a Catholic who will teach the truth, and wake up the people of the West to the Marxist, Muslim, enviro-wacko, genocidal, collectivist enemy who is making war on the Catholic Church, on all Christians, and Western Civilization.

[Fedora]

The Cathechism says it pretty plainly: "1665 The remarriage of persons divorced from a living, lawful spouse contravenes the plan and law of God as taught by Christ. They are not separated from the Church, but they cannot receive Eucharistic communion."

[piusv]

What is most important to note is the fact that Forte, by Francis’ personal choice and appointment Special Secretary to the Synod, is stating — publicly, and without apparent concern for consequence — that the Pope intentionally manipulated the synodal process — against the will of the Bishops –to get an outcome that he knew would not be otherwise acceptable.

I am sure the deniers will be along any minute now.