Posted on 07/19/2016 10:11:31 AM PDT by marshmallow
SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, July 18, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) — A Catholic bishop simultaneously skewered those celebrating supposed changes in Church doctrine and defended a fellow bishop who instructed Catholics in his diocese to follow the Church’s teaching on sexual morality.
Responding to a “misleading” Associated Press article that ran in Illinois' State Journal-Register, Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, wrote in the same newspaper that the guidelines Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput issued on proper disposition to receive Holy Communion “are certainly correct” because they uphold Biblical teaching.
The AP article pitted Chaput’s actions against Pope Francis. The article said Chaput "is closing the door opened by Pope Francis to letting civilly remarried Catholics receive Communion, saying the faithful in his archdiocese can only do so if they abstain from sex and live 'as brother and sister.'"
Earlier this month, Chaput issued diocesan guidelines for the implementation of Pope Francis’ controversial exhortation Amoris Laetitia, which many Catholic theologians and philosophers have warned could undermine the Church’s moral teaching.
“As with all magisterial documents, Amoris Laetitia is best understood when read within the tradition of the Church’s teaching and life,” Chaput wrote, and the document should be read in continuity with the Church’s longstanding teaching that divorced and civilly remarried Catholics may receive Holy Communion provided they live as “brother and sister.”
“As I explained in my statement about the Apostolic Exhortation of Pope Francis on April 8, the date it was issued, ‘There are no changes to canon law or church doctrine introduced in this document,’” Paprocki wrote. “I addressed this conclusion in greater detail in my column in our diocesan newspaper, the Catholic Times, on May 1, explaining that in-flight press conferences on an airplane, apostolic exhortations and footnotes ‘by their very nature are not vehicles for introducing or..........
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Got your stone ready?
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Ready, aim....
I am not Catholic myself, even though I was born into that church and baptised there, because I don’t agree with all their doctrines. It sounds to me like you disagree with their doctrine on communion, so...
As a Catholic I was taught not to, er, "cast the first stone" and, of course, there is always:
Matthew 7:
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged.
For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."
It’s like talking to wall with you. I asked you who is asking you to judge, and you never bothered to answer, yet you keep posting verses about judging.
I’ve got no interest in listening to this broken record anymore.
Signed: BR
Was JPII "judging" them and "condemning" them in Familiaris Consortio?
You appear to believe that I wrote it......LOL!
It clearly says.....well....here it is again:
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.
Well?
Ah now we see the mask drop, you claim you “don’t judge”, but you feel free to toss out childish insults about peoples’ screen names. Nice.
So, you’ve been listening in on the confessionals, have you?
Lol. Just a whisper of a joke.
Mea culpa. Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa.
The Church isn’t judging, the Church is doing it’s Godly duty and giving warning. St Paul warns that those who do not discern properly before receiving communion eat and drink damnation on themselves. The Church, from the Pope to the bishops to the priests to the laity have a responsibility to warn people when they enter into sin. That applies when they are walking into a abortuary or when they are walking up to communion while in a civil marriage after a marriage that has not been properly annulled.
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....um...er....uh....LOL....double dare me......triple dare me.....ah....mmmmm.
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We know where the lacuna was in YOUR education.
I'm not going anywhere.
Yep, all correct.
I have never seen a priest NOT give Holy Communion to anyone. Have you?
Perhaps priests assume that people KNOW what they are doing.
Any woman who gets an abortion KNOWS the mortal sin she is committing. Have you ever seen a post abortion woman receive Holy Communion before going to Confession? Is the priest supposed to ask her at the altar: "Have you gone to Confession since your abortion?" How would HE know if she did or did not have an abortion? Women MIGHT go to another church for Holy Communion. Who knows.
If she did so then SHE will have a reckoning one day, won't she?
OR she might go to confession some day, truly regretting her sins. You wouldn't know that, of course.
That's nice.
I will be going away very soon. I have a badly broken nail (my fault) and my nail guy is going to fix it today.
Yowza.
However, I will be back either later today or tomorrow. I still have to take my two-hour walk, for exercise.
Hasta luego.
You’re confusing public sinners with private sinners.
You need to read up on what the Church actually teaches about that Bible verse. Even Catholic Answers gets this one right:
http://www.catholic.com/magazine/articles/judge-not
But I am guessing that you would much rather judge...er, point fingers at others for “judging”.
I know a sincere prayer from a condescending sneer.
Those are all examples of PRIVATE sin. They are totally not the issue.
If Nancy Pelosi came to me for Communion, I would turn her away.
“But maybe she went to Confession right before Mass!”
Doesn’t matter. If she is truly penitent for her decades of promoting abortion, it would have been on TV and the front page of every paper. Until she PUBLICLY repents, the scandal continues, and she cannot receive absolution or Communion.
The same with the illicitly “married” couple. There is scandal which has to end.
The very fact that you gave examples that are irrelevant demonstrates that you haven’t given this issue any thought.
Marriage is a public action. If the priest is aware of parishioner who has remarried without a proper annulment then he is duty-bound to not give them communion. If they are married, then we can assume there is sexual relations. If there are sexual relations and a unresolved marital relationship with another person then that is adultery. It is a scandal to do otherwise.
The priests and bishops all should publicly advise in their homilies about the need to receive with a properly cleaned soul. The problem with this latest document is that it muddies the water rather than making things clear. Frankly far too few priests give good homilies. My own experience is week after week of “do what is right, find God’s will for you, blah blah blah” without giving clear, concrete direction on what the Church teaches are right and wrong.
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