[ebb tide]

"I honestly don't see what and why some bishops seem to think that they have to interpret this document," said Farrell, the head of the new Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life and who last Sunday was announced as one of 17 prelates selected by Francis to join the church's elite College of Cardinals.

"I believe that the pope has spoken," said the cardinal-designate, referring to news last month that Francis wrote a letter praising a group of Argentine bishops who had drafted concrete guidelines about circumstances in which divorced and civilly remarried couples might eventually be allowed to receive Communion.

[ConorMacNessa]

Holy Spirit speaking? If Amoris Laetitia is deemed to be Ex Cathedra I'm out.

"Dia shábháil ar fad anseo!"

[SubMareener]

“Laypeople ... are 99 percent of the church and they need to have a voice and a say,” said Farrell. “I believe the same thing about women: they need to have a voice and a say.”

“I believe laypeople should be involved in the administration of the church, and by administration I don’t mean finances,” he said. “I mean every aspect of the life of the church.”

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Apparently, the Clinton Campaign agrees: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6293

“There needs to be a Catholic Spring, in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church.”

[jtal]

Judas.

St. Thomas More, pray for us.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Heresy.

[Lurkinanloomin]

More like the New World Order speaking.

[Unam Sanctam]

AL is reversing the doctrine of Familiaris consortio.

[SkyPilot]