Vatican cardinal says clergy must speak out more on life and family as Pope focuses on lost sheep
The pope "expects that bishops and priests are doing this teaching while he’s trying to draw people closer," Cardinal Burke says.
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Outcry against Cardinal Kasper’s ‘two-tier marriage’ proposal continues
“Do you really believe, Cardinal, that a proposal to undermine marriage, in the West where everything is already falling apart, may serve to make anyone happy?” an Italian columnist asks.
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UK bishop hopes for ‘radical re-examination of human sexuality’ at synod on the family
The Catholic bishop of Middleborough hopes for "development" in Church teaching on "contraception, homosexuality, divorce and remarriage, cohabitation; even the position of women in the Church.”
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Vatican cardinal proposes ‘two-tier marriage’ by opening Communion to the ‘remarried’: critic
Cardinal Walter Kasper urged the Vatican to open Communion to those who have 'remarried' after a civil divorce at the consistory last month.
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Pope’s top advisor tells CDF head to ‘loosen up’ on Communion for remarried
The head of Pope Francis' commission of eight cardinals has accused the prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith of using "black and white" thinking in his defense of Church teaching on marriage.
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German bishops will give Communion to those ‘remarried’ outside Church despite Vatican’s opposition
Most Reverend Robert Zollitsch, Archbishop Emeritus of Freiburg, believes the German bishops’ proposal has the support of Pope Francis despite the opposition of the Pope’s doctrine chief. “A Prefect is not the Pope,” says Zollitsch.
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Cardinal Kasper says Church will soon give Communion to divorced, remarried Catholics
Cardinal Walter Kasper has said bluntly, and in direct opposition to the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), that the rules will shortly be changed.
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Vatican to survey laity on sex, family issues in lead-up to synod on family
If the Vatican is surveying general acceptance of Catholic teaching among Catholics, much of the work has been done for them by polling organisations that have shown a steady plummet in nearly all indicators since the 1960s.
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Vatican: For Catholic marriage to be valid, couples must be open to children
"[M]arriages nowadays are probably invalid more often than they were previously, because there is a lack of desire for marriage in accordance with Catholic teaching," asserted the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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Vatican strongly reaffirms no Communion for divorced and remarried Catholics
Comments from Pope Francis on his return trip from Rio’s World Youth Day had led to speculation that a change in the Church’s long-standing tradition on the matter was coming.
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