Posted on 07/07/2017 7:45:07 PM PDT by marshmallow
Archbishop Charles Chaput also stated that gay Catholics should also ‘live chastely’ in new rules issued after Pope Francis urged more acceptance of others
Catholics in Philadelphia who are divorced and civilly remarried will be welcome to accept Holy Communion – as long as they abstain from sex and live out their relationships like “brother and sister”.
New guidelines published by the conservative archbishop of Philadelphia this month also called on priests within the archdiocese to help Catholics who are attracted to people of the same sex and “find chastity very difficult”, saying such individuals should be advised to frequently seek penance. Because same-sex attraction takes “diverse forms”, the archdiocese also said that some people can still live out a vocation of heterosexual marriage with children, notwithstanding “some degree of same-sex attraction”.
The guidelines, which took effect on 1 July, come three months after Pope Francis urged bishops to be more accepting of Catholics who lived outside of the church’s social teaching and doctrine, including people who have divorced and remarried, and people in same-sex relationships. The pope’s views were published in April in a document titled Amoris Laetitia (Joy of Love), which was hailed as potentially groundbreaking. Because the document called on bishops to show greater mercy and flexibility to bring Catholics back to the church, while also calling on bishops not to veer from church doctrine, it was seen as giving both traditional and more progressively minded bishops the chance to interpret the document as they saw fit.
The Philadelphia archbishop, Charles Chaput, is known as one of the staunchest conservative leaders in the US Catholic church, a view that is reflected in the rules the archdiocese published.
John Allen, a veteran Vatican journalist, said he believed Philadelphia was among the first archdiocese to publish such rules based on.....
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What??? Brother and sister??? Words fall me
I love Archbishop Chaput. His recent book was great, much better than others that recently came out in the same vein because he’s not a “golden ager”: someone who believes life was once perfect and could be again if only everyone would accept the roles the writer thinks they should.
Big hug and kiss, a Guinness and a kitten.
What he’s saying is Christians multiply.
I love Archbishop Chaput. His recent book was great, much better than others that recently came out in the same vein because he’s not a “golden ager”: someone who believes life was once perfect and could be again if only everyone would accept the roles the writer thinks they should.
Big hug and kiss, a Guinness and a kitten.
It’s conservative Catholic doctrine, like it or not.
To bend would be to ultimately destroy the Church.
With all due respect, that instruction is not at all realistic. Why even bother to get married?
This does not widen the tent.
How about straight couples? What’s their advice for them?
They multiply by not having sex how exactly??
There is a famous convert who actually does that, lives with his wife as brother and sister, because he was married before.
Sometimes people become Catholic because it is a very seductive religion, but they are not really clear on what it means for their life. Until they find they can’t get married because they were once married and divorced.
“gay Catholics ?” Nonsense. The church is not here to reconcile God to man, but to reconcile man to God. Who is the fool here?
Uh HUH...Sure.
I guess the RCC doesn’t believe in the grace of God though the redemption of Christ on the Cross...
Two sinners divorced for maybe good reasons should live like brother and sister....?
Yup, that will get Catholic who gave fallen away running back in...
And what does he say of those in the Vatican who live outside the church’s social teaching and doctrine?
Remarried (after divorce) = not married, don’t have sex.
Remarried (after widowhood) = married, please have sex.
Remarried (after annulment) = married for the first time.
I guess this would not apply to drug fueled gay sex parties for church officials or am I missing something?
Christ said don't divorce and whoever divorces a woman and marries another commits adultery against her.
On the tablets of the Ten Commandments, the hand of God wrote the words "thou shalt not commit adultery."
Now it might be easier for that adulterous couple to move out. But sometimes that's not possible (due to kids), so they have to figure something else out (like separate bedrooms).
Cloning or binary fission.
You would have to apply/pay for a Vatican indulgence to sneak that one by.
Considering that the Bible teaches that mere lust equates to sex in the context of adultery, maybe we should all just keep our eyes closed 24/7.
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