Pro-Marriage, Pro-Family Voices Lodge Pre-Synod Appeals

National Catholic Register ^ | 2/10/15 | Edward Pentin

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Amid continuing concerns that the upcoming synod on the family in October will modify Church teaching on marriage, the family and human sexuality, clergy, lay individuals and groups are increasingly trying to make their voices heard through public statements and sending open letters and petitions to Pope Francis. One of the most vocal has been Cardinal Raymond Burke, patron of the Sovereign Order of Malta. Asked in a Feb. 8 television interview with the French channel France 2 what he would do if Pope Francis insisted on allowing holy Communion for remarried divorcees, the cardinal replied: “I will resist. I cannot do anything else. There is no doubt that this is a difficult time — this is clear; this is clear.”...

...He also quoted a cardinal who had written to him regretting that some cardinals “have not had the courage” to oppose some of the proposals put forward at last year’s synod. “This is not good. This is not synodality, because it is necessary to say all those things that, in the Lord, it is felt that must be said,” Cardinal Burke quoted the cardinal as saying. In response to bishops calling for wide input “at all levels” in preparation for the assembly at the Vatican in October, large numbers of Catholics have signed a “filial appeal” asking Pope Francis to address the current state of confusion regarding Church doctrine. The appeal asks the Holy Father to reaffirm “categorically the Catholic teaching that divorced-and-civilly-remarried Catholics cannot receive holy Communion and that homosexual unions are contrary to divine and natural law.”

[marshmallow]

Tragic.

Faithful Catholics begging, pleading with the Pope to be a shepherd and fight off the wolves.

[piusv]

Kinda tough when one is a wolf.

[JoeFromSidney]

Is the Pope Catholic?

I'm not sure about this one.