ebb tide:
I am well aware of what the Orthodox Church requires with respect who is eligible to receive Holy Communion in their Church and what their directives are for Orthodox Christians and partaking Eucharist in a Catholic Church. That was not the topic of my post, the issue at hand was what the Catholic Church allows with respect to partaking Holy Communion in the Catholic Church. With respect to the Eastern Orthodox their partaking of Holy Communion in a Catholic parish, I was 100% accurate. Thus the dichotomy in theory can arise, and in all likelihood, has happened whereby an Orthodox Christian married earlier in life, divorced and remarried, has taken Communion in a Catholic parish.
So do you find that to be an excuse for the Roman Catholic Church to now allow Holy Communion to non-repentant adulterers just because the Orthodox Church does?
The Pope and Kasper never singled out the Orthodox to be the sole beneficiaries of this new form of “pastoral care”. Did you you hear about the Pope’s recent recommendation to the adulteress in South America? He advised her to find a Catholic Church, where here sinful life was unknown, in order to receive Holy Communion.
P.S. Rome has acknowledged the phone call was made; and Rome has not denied (nor confirmed) the published details of that phone call.