[marshmallow]

Your move, Papa Francis.

[babygene]

As a Catholic who has been married to the same woman for 45 years, I agree with this...

[Nervous Tick]

>> Bishop Fürst said that the German hierarchy is responding to demands from the faithful.

“For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.” — St. Paul, in his letter to the Galatians, 1:10

[Mad Dawg]

I disagree with the Germans. I guess Papa Fran is going to have to have some conversations with them.

This is like Humanae Vitae.’It doesn’t matter what the “faithful” think. Not all are teachers, and those who aren’t must learn from those who are.

[GreyFriar]

Sounds like this bishop is bucking for being “promoted” to bishop in the American Episcopal church.

[narses]

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[Ransomed]

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/leo_xiii/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_10021880_arcanum_en.html

I reckon I’ll take Pope Leo XIII over this guy any old day.

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[Gene Eric]

Despite one’s empathy for the proscribed, vacating the tenets vacates the Church by which it’s defined. This is an irrelevant, heretical matter.

[rogator]

The Catholic Church (in Germany) has no authority to countermand the Word of God. This would not be the first schism in German history.

[DoodleDawg]

Is it any different here? Rudy Giuliani received communion from the Pope when he was in New York in 2008 and I’m not aware of anyone who has denied Newt Gingrich communion. It doesn’t seem to be enforced as a matter of policy in the U.S.

[Mr. Lucky]

In this country, there's a name for divorced and remarried Catholics: Lutheran.

[terycarl]

not a chance...marriage is insoluable...if you divorce, legally, and remarry, you are actually living in the state of adultry....you are still married to the original spouse whether you like it or not.