Even if the Vatican is 100% correct, there's still an issue here since these reports cause enormous scandal. It's time for +Francis to stop chatting to his buddy Scalfari if garbled and confused accounts are the result.
“The Vatican has said that an interview which quotes the Pope as saying that “all divorced who ask will be admitted” to Communion is “in no way reliable” and “cannot be considered as the Pope’s thinking”.”
Not exactly a denial...
In other words.... it is EXACTLY what the Pope said.
Divorced people are ALREADY allowed to obtain full communion. It is divorced and remarried who are not allowed communion. This article is dumb.
Sounds like Scalfari needs to go back to journalism school. You can quote the gist of what somebody said but you can’t put it in quotation marks unless it’s exact. He needed to have Francis’ words on such an explosive topic exactly correct. I don’t know what Francis said but I’ve already seen too many false quotes attributed to Francis to believe Scalfari beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Uh oh.
That similar line of thinking didn’t work out too well for a liberal Pope not that long ago.
Lighten up, Frances.
I saw that posted here earlier and expected this rectification “’”.
It is remarrying that puts you in a state of persistent unrepentant adultery that is sinful, and thus should be denied communion because of eating and drinking the communion unworthily, not having refused to practice a sinful alliance.
It is time for Francis to STFU entirely even to the point of taking a vow of silence!
The fool can’t stop talking nonsense!
What happens will depend on what "ASK" means in his mind.
My prediction is that there will be some sort of penitential pathway under the bishops, which in Chicago will be easy and in Manila will not. More or less what the Eastern Orthodox do now.
The seamy and dishonest annulment system was not going to survive the Synod. The bishops have been granting virtually every annulment (for the divorced "who ask"), while knowing that the vast majority are procured under false pretenses.
They (the bishops) cannot even begin to imagine going back to 60 annulments/year from the present 60 000, and they hate the lies and the presence of a whole annulment procurement cottage industry.
So, they will take the way forward I describe.
maybe he should have taken the name Pope Urkel.
All you need is a good victim story about why your marriage failed, and you are good to go.
If the Vatican says it isn’t so, it isn’t so....
Riiiight.
This still leaves the question: why does Francis continue to provide this “unreliable” journalist opportunities to interview him? Hmmmmm????
Indeed. It seems like this pope wants to sow confusion.
I agree with all that you said in your post.
However, I would like to add, that sadly where are all the FreeRepublic traditional Catholics who accused the Pope of heresy for speaking this, and saying it must be true?
I am so sick of people with so little faith themselves that they doubt Christ’s promises to His Church, condemning others for a lack of faith.
Francis has not proclaimed any heresies. And even if he promises to proclaim one tomorrow, we should have faith that something will prevent this.
They should read the story about Abraham and Isaac.
And no, I am not a Pope Francis fan. But I would rather follow him than despair.
Rant over.