Communion for the Remarried. Francis Has a Yes "In Pectore"

Chiesa Espress Online ^ | 9/8/14 | Sandro Magister

[defconw]

Just my two cents, but rather than putting souls in danger of unworthily receiving, why doesn't every Diocese beef up the tribunals and look into these divorced people marriages. I am sure they could get volunteers to help the tribunal do the investigations and then speed up the process. Maybe there is cause.

On the other hand this is not a new teaching. If you marry divorce and then remarry you are not allowed the Eucharist. No true Catholic can deny knowing this teaching. It's really not that hard. On the other hand if you can out live your ex, you can be allowed back in. ;)

[ReaganGeneration2]

Do you think that if your spouse commits adultery that that is grounds for an annulment and later remarriage?

[ebb tide]

No and neither does the Church.

[ReaganGeneration2]

I agree too, but only learned that much later.

And my point is: how many Catholics, who completed pre-Cana and CCD in the last 40 years, actually understand that doctrine, that you can never remarry if your spouse cheats on you, before entering into a Catholic Marriage? How many today understand this and other doctrines on the gravity of Marriage? If not, is it their fault completely, or has the Church, all us, let them down?