Francis supporters demand Catholics ‘accept’ communion for adulterers. Here’s why we can’t
Pope Francis supporters say that previous Church teaching is now superseded by the Pope’s new teaching.
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Articles tagged Communion For Remarried
Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial weight behind communion for adulterers
The move raises the stakes on the Amoris Laetitia debate.
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Here’s how Pope Francis elevated communion for adulterers to ‘authentic magisterium’
The pope's own official interpretation of Amoris Laetitia seems impossible to square with the perennial doctrine and discipline of the Catholic faith.
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Mercy for Pope means ‘second marriage’ isn’t adultery: priest in Vatican newspaper
Recognizing a second marriage is a 'merciful way of applying the law.'
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Pope Francis has critics of ‘substance’ who ‘can’t in justice be dismissed’: US archbishop
Archbishop Chaput said the Pope’s teachings have created ‘pastoral challenges’ for priests about what it means to accompany and to be merciful.
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It’s ‘heresy’ to approve a new relationship for one still married: dubia cardinal
Cardinal Walter Brandmuller restates that Church teaching is unchangeable on marriage and adulterers must receive absolution before receiving Communion.
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The Church has absolutely no power to admit the civilly remarried to Communion
'How can we fail to be amazed at how fast John Paul II’s teaching has been swept aside.'
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Ban on Communion for divorced and remarried is ‘absurd and inhuman’: Cardinal
French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin is on board with Pope Francis' Amoris Laetitia.
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Polish bishops’ new guidelines to follow John Paul II in refusing Communion to remarried: report
'The sin of adultery prevents them from receiving absolution and receiving Holy Communion.'
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Did this Vatican Cardinal flip-flop on Communion for remarried because of Pope Francis?
Cardinal Ouellet formerly held that giving Communion to remarried Catholics would amount to a 'false communion.'
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