Posted on 01/24/2014 7:00:14 PM PST by ebb tide
Addressing the Vatican court primarily responsible for hearing requests for marriage annulments, Pope Francis said judges on church tribunals should show “imperturbable and impartial balance” as well as the “delicacy and humanity proper to a pastor of souls.”
The Pope made his remarks today to officials of the Roman Rota at a meeting to inaugurate the tribunal’s judicial year.
“You are essentially pastors,” he told the officials. “As you carry out your judicial work, do not forget that you are pastors. Behind every file, every position, every case, there are persons who wait for justice.”
Pope Francis has said that church law on marriage is a topic that exemplifies a general need for mercy in the Church today, and that it will be among the subjects of discussion at this October’s extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the “pastoral challenges of the family in the context of evangelization.”
In his speech to the Rota, the Pope said a judge on a Church tribunal must sympathise with the “mentality and legitimate aspirations” of the community he serves, and thus render “justice that is not legalistic and abstract, but appropriate to the needs of concrete reality.”
Such a judge “will not be content with superficial knowledge of the reality of the persons who await his judgment, but will recognize the need to understand deeply the situations of the parties,” the Pope said.
“The legal dimension and the pastoral dimension of ecclesial ministry are not in conflict,” Pope Francis said. “The church’s legal activity, which takes the form of service to the truth in justice, has in fact a profoundly pastoral meaning, because it is aimed at the good of the faithful and of the edification of the Christian community.”
They annulled Dead Ted’s marriage.
That ended my association with the church.
You are always a Catholic if you were baptized a Catholic. You may be an inactive one. But something that happened to Ted Kennedy does not make you a non-Catholic.
Think about it, please.
I'm guessing that someone believed there was a question that needed addressing.
why is there a “fee” of several thousands for the annullment..Never understood that one.
Yes, and it was the disobedient German bishops who did so. And the pope is playing right into their hands. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s already been rehearsed between the mix of them.
“pastoral”
Where are you getting that false information?
I learned a lot about annulments in this book——very interesting.
“Shattered Faith”
Sheila Rauch Kennedy
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I learned a lot about annulments in this book——very interesting.
“Shattered Faith”
Sheila Rauch Kennedy
You probably know that her annulment was ultimately overturned.
Hey the Kennedy clan seems to be able to get them with no problem
Now there’s a bit of dogma for you.... so Nancy Pelosi gets a pass because she was baptized....never mind that she doesn’t believe anything the church teaches.
Why don’t you think about it....
In his speech to the Rota, the Pope said a judge on a Church tribunal must sympathise with the “mentality and legitimate aspirations” of the community he serves, and thus render “justice that is not legalistic and abstract, but appropriate to the needs of concrete reality.”
It was not HER annulment.... the annulment was requested by JOE KENNEDY. Yes it was initially granted but it was Sheila’s book that brought pressure to have it over turned
They sure do. And Francis has just appointed the latest Kennedy apologist, Cardinal O’Malley, to his Gang o’ Eight.
It’s all coming together, ever since the pre-arranged agreements during the papal conclave. “You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours”.
Nancy is making her own bed. She will have to lie in it one day.
“But he that knew not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. And unto whomsoever much is given, of him much shall be required: and to whom they have committed much, of him they will demand the more.”
Luke 12:48
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That is that frightening. Let’s just toss out the Ten Commandments then. Let’s toss out the Sacrament of Marriage.
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