“Now it may be that today s heretics are prophets, the church will indeed be revolutionized, and my objections will be ground under with the rest of conservative Catholicism. But if that happens, it will take hard grinding, not just soft words and academic rank-pulling. It will require a bitter civil war.
And so, my dear professors: Welcome to the battlefield.”
Brilliant. I will write my response to improve my own thinking.
The Lord is very clear on the sanctity of marriage. Our Lady is very clear about how evil forces are aimed at marriage. The heretical theologians who complained about an essay in the NY Times really are heretical and face a genuine danger with their communion with the Pope.
Sending an invitation to divorced couples who lack an annulment to the Catholic eucharist is harmful for three reasons, as Douthat explained. The invitation to divorced couples who lack annulment will destroy the sanctity of marriage, will affirm unethical behavior (such as cohabitation, same sex attraction and polygamy), and will discourage ethical people from obeying the Bible and the Magisterium’s documents on marriage.
The deception expressed by the heretics is this. They say that inviting divorced couples who lack an annulment to the eucharist is loving, caring, and helpful. False. Inviting divorced people who lack annulment to the eucharist is hateful toward traditionally married Catholics, surrenders to sin and vice, and is harmful to the obedient.
“But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea” (Mt 18:6)
Bottom line. Don’t mess with marriage, since messing with marriage has more negatives and positives.
It is also hateful to the divorced catholics, as it decreases the likelihood of repentance.
Already done...'Reformation'......