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Theologian: Shared Communion With Protestants Would be Blasphemy and Sacrilege
National Catholic Register ^ | January 2, 2017 | Edward Pentin

Posted on 01/02/2017 4:25:11 AM PST by BlessedBeGod

...If the Church were to change its rules on shared Eucharistic Communion it would “go against Revelation and the Magisterium”, leading Christians to “commit blasphemy and sacrilege,” an Italian theologian has warned.

Drawing on the Church’s teaching based on Sacred Scripture and Tradition, Msgr. Nicola Bux, a former consulter to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, stressed that non-Catholic Christians must have undertaken baptism and confirmation in the Catholic Church, and repented of grave sin through sacramental confession, in order to be able to receive Jesus in the Eucharist.

Msgr. Bux was responding to the Register about concerns that elements of the current pontificate might be sympathetic of a form of “open Communion” proposed by the German Protestant theologian, Jürgen Moltmann.

The concerns have arisen primarily due to the Holy Father’s own comments on Holy Communion and Lutherans, his apparent support for some remarried divorcees to receive Holy Communion, and how others have used his frequently repeated maxim about the Eucharist: that it is “not a prize for the perfect, but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak.”

The debate specifically over intercommunion with Christian denominations follows recent remarks by Cardinal Walter Kasper who, in a Dec. 10 interview with Avvenire, said he hopes Pope Francis’ next declaration will open the way for intercommunion with other denominations “in special cases.”

The German theologian said shared Eucharistic communion is just a matter of time, and that the Pope’s recent participation in the Reformation commemoration in Lund has given “a new thrust” to the “ecumenical process.”

Pope Francis has often expressed his admiration for Cardinal Kasper’s theology whose thinking has significantly influenced…the priorities of this pontificate, particularly on the Eucharist.

For Moltmann, Holy Communion is “the Lord's supper, not something organized by a church or a denomination”...

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To: Repent and Believe
you'd not go BEYOND what they wrote.



 

NIV Romans 15:3-4
3. For even Christ did not please himself but, as it is written: "The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me."
4. For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

 

NIV 1 Corinthians 4:6
Now, brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the meaning of the saying, "Do not go beyond what is written." Then you will not take pride in one man over against another.

 
 
 

1,501 posted on 01/26/2017 4:18:56 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Repent and Believe
What we have here is a reference to the clergy.


How is that out of context?

What I posted was a COMPLETE reference to one who sins; apparently not knowing it.

 “If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over.


Next time that you are in the booth, ask the priest how many sins he has retained.

1,502 posted on 01/26/2017 4:24:52 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ebb tide
He obeyed His Mother at Cana

Sorry; you need to READ the book your ECFs assembled.

Mary said nothing to Jesus that he needed to OBEY her.



... at Cana
And when the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to Him, “They have no wine.”
His mother said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it” (John 2:3-5).
 

1,503 posted on 01/26/2017 4:28:32 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: MHGinTN

I, for one, am getting a bit tired of refuting every PROVABLE lie that Catholics keep posting on FR.


1,504 posted on 01/26/2017 4:30:01 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Repent and Believe
What R&B says:

Perhaps you could gain lots more converts by writing a dissertation against Saint Thomas Aquinas regarding his words of worship for Mary, and his definition of the two types of the word “worship”.

What R&B Means:

Perhaps I could get you to waste more time by writing a dissertation against Saint Thomas Aquinas regarding his words of worship for Mary, and his definition of the two types of the word “worship”.


Oooops!

This might be construed as MINDREADING on my part. Sowwy...

1,505 posted on 01/26/2017 4:32:51 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: metmom

If he repeats it again it’ll be a lie; previously exposed.


1,506 posted on 01/26/2017 4:33:46 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ebb tide
So why don’t you respect Christ’s Mother?

To the Jury: Facts not in evidence.

1,507 posted on 01/26/2017 4:34:57 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: FourtySeven
The point being that anyone can interpret Scripture however is personally desired, and there’s no one to instruct in error, if we reject the concept of the Word preserved in both written and oral form, both taught authoritatively by a physical body.

Finely couched in polysyllabic words and lengthy sentences; what we have here is...


 


'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,
' it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.'

'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'

'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'  


1,508 posted on 01/26/2017 4:40:21 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Springfield Reformer

This is NOT a very lengthy defense of your ACCUSATION.
What will the jury think?


1,509 posted on 01/26/2017 4:41:21 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ebb tide; MHGinTN
Sorry; I don't take steps with heretics.

Your much below his status.

He talks DOWN to you; and has NO need to LISTEN to you.

1,510 posted on 01/26/2017 4:43:19 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: boatbums

Interesting that your post here came right after ET’s boastful and arrogant ACCUSATION just above it.


1,511 posted on 01/26/2017 4:46:26 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ebb tide
Here is YOUR hot coal: I have held my peace
1,512 posted on 01/26/2017 4:47:29 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ebb tide
Could it be...

Look! Another squirrel!!



1,513 posted on 01/26/2017 4:53:44 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: imardmd1

...and I ain't lyin'...


1,514 posted on 01/26/2017 4:56:56 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ebb tide
Do you know what the Fourth Commandment is?

Do you know what a COMMAND from Jesus is?

Call no man father...


1,515 posted on 01/26/2017 4:58:12 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: MHGinTN
I threw a little humor in since you appear to be getting a little hot under your collar.

That microsecond just before head explodes and spews away in all directions.

1,516 posted on 01/26/2017 4:59:44 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ebb tide
Do y’all just make crap up?

This is RICH!!!


1,517 posted on 01/26/2017 5:00:17 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ebb tide
Philippians 2:6-8

6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; 7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!

1,518 posted on 01/26/2017 5:02:31 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ebb tide
I'm done with you and your fantasies.

Declare victory and stomp off the field of battle!

1,519 posted on 01/26/2017 5:03:52 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: daniel1212

Jesus taught in parables for a reason; so we try to put things side-by-side for comparison as well.


1,520 posted on 01/26/2017 5:05:39 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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