[Mrs. Don-o]

You are mistaken. I am not "playing blind, deaf, and dumb." What I am asking for should be simple to supply if it's there: an actual statement, or ruling, or determination, that Holy Communion is now to be given to divorced/remarried couples outside of the usual conditions: either an annulment of the first marriage, or the second couple living in perfect continence.

My point is, the Pope said no such thing.

Oh yes, there was elision, there was insinuation, there was a quirky little footnote he says he can't remember writing, there was outright avoidance of direct questions on the subject ("Go ask Schoenborn, he knows theology") --- but canonical matters are not settled by winks and nods and forgettable footnotes.

That Pope Francis makes things so ambiguous that any knave can pinch the silly putty into the shape of their choice, is scandalous. It's gaslighting. I hate it. It drives me crazy.

But he did not say what he is alleged to have said: that the divorced/remarried may now receive Communion without definitively renouncing their present condition of adulterous union.

If you can demonstrate otherwise, do so. And please try to do it without further insults to me, personally.

Give it a try.

Thank you.

[ebb tide]

If you can demonstrate otherwise, do so. And please try to do it without hurther insults to me, personally./

I stand by my statement and reject your accusation of a personal insult. The German and Philippine bishops have already recognized AL as free license to give Holy Communion to unrepentant adulterers, with no reprimands from the Bishop of Rome to date. Bergoglio had been doing the same since he was Archbishop of Buenos Aries. Since AL, Cardinals Schonborn and Kasper, and even Humble Jorge have all confirmed the evil intent of the footnote. If you can demonstrate footnote #351 of AL is in perfect alignment with the Church Magisterium, go for it.

Otherwise, stop hollering that black is white and up is down.