Did Papa Tango admonish the above homo couple to cease their sodomite union?
Posted on 01/25/2016 3:30:34 PM PST by NYer
Francis met with members of the Roman Rota on Friday
Pope Francis said there can be no confusion between God's plan for marriage as an indissoluble bond between one man and woman who are open to life, and other sorts of unions.
"The Church, in fact, can demonstrate God's unwavering merciful love toward families, especially those wounded by sin and life's trials, and at the same time proclaim the essential truth of marriage according to God's plan," the Pope said on Friday, in a meeting with members of the Roman Rota. Francis holds the annual meeting to inaugurate the Vatican court's judicial year.
Pope Francis said the court, which hears requests for marriage annulments, helps support families and the truth about the sacred bond of marriage.
In evaluating and judging marriage cases and contributing to formation, the Roman Rota helps promote and proclaim the truth, he said.
When the Church, through the court's service, seeks to declare the truth about marriage in each specific case, it always bears in mind that those "who, through free choice or unfortunate circumstances in life, live in an objective state of error continue to be the object of the merciful love of Christ and therefore of the Church, too."
The two gatherings of the Synod of Bishops focused on the family were occasions of "in-depth, knowledgeable discernment" and they gave the Church a chance to tell "the world that there can be no confusion between the family desired by God and any other kind of union," the Pope said.
"The family, based on indissoluble, unitive and procreative marriage, is part of God's 'dream' and the Church's for the salvation of humanity," he said.
The Church will always offer the truth about marriage, he said, "not as an ideal for the few, despite modern examples based on what is fleeting and transitory, but as a reality that, with Christ's grace, can be lived by all the baptised faithful."
That means there is great pastoral urgency for adequate marriage preparation, for example, he said, with a kind of marriage "catechumenate" that was suggested during the synods on the family. A catechumenate would entail a longer process of formation before marriage, as well as during the years right after the wedding.
While the family is considered to be a "domestic Church," he said, the Church is the family of God. Therefore, the church must be filled with a loving, "family spirit," where people are "no longer strangers and sojourners," but members of God's family, he said.
The Church -- as both mother and teacher -- knows that not every one of her children is perfect, he said.
"The Church knows that some Christians have a faith that's strong, formed from love, strengthened by good catechesis and nourished by prayer and a sacramental life," the Pope said, "while others have a faith that's weak, neglected, unformed, poorly taught or forgotten."
The Pope reiterated Church teaching that the level of a person's faith "is not an essential condition of matrimonial consent" and in fact, he said, it is not unusual for engaged couples to go into a marriage with a limited understanding of the fullness of God's plan.
"The lack of formation in the faith and even error concerning the unity, indissolubility and the sacramental dignity of marriage invalidate matrimonial consent only when they determine" or condition a person's will, he said.
Precisely for this reason, "errors which concern the sacramentality of marriage must be evaluated very carefully," he said.
Ping!
AGAIN....Pope Francis upholds the Teaching of the Church!
This Pope will NOT be CELEBRATING any schism. Please be careful WHERE you get your *information.*
Also, consider the following, which is quite the opposite that has been reported...even by some well-meaning but very incorrect Catholics:
“Since being elevated to the Chair of St. Peter, Francis hasn’t flagged in his commitment to the faith. He has urged pro-lifers to ‘stay focused’ on preserving the right to life, championed the rights of the poor, rebuked gay lobbies who promote same-sex relations, urged fellow bishops to fight gay adoption, affirmed traditional marriage, closed the door on women priests, hailed Humanae Vitae, praised the Council of Trent and the hermeneutic of continuity, in connection with Vatican II, denounced the dictatorship of relativism, highlighted the gravity of sin and the need for confession, warned against Satan and eternal damnation, condemned worldliness and ‘adolescent progressivism, defended the Sacred Deposit of Faith, and urged Christians to carry their crosses even to the point of martyrdom. These are not the words and acts of a secularizing Modernist.” ...December 7th, 2015, First Things
I figured that out all by myself when the Pope was John XXIII.
Also...
“When it is made publicly, a statement contrary to the truth takes on a particular gravity… Respect for the reputation of persons forbids every attitude and word likely to cause them unjust injury. He becomes guilty:
– of rash judgment who, even tacitly, assumes as true, without sufficient foundation, the moral fault of a neighbor;
– of detraction who, without objectively valid reason, discloses another’s faults and failings to persons who did not know them;
– of calumny who, by remarks contrary to the truth, harms the reputation of others and gives occasion for false judgments concerning them.
To avoid rash judgment, everyone should be careful to interpret insofar as possible his neighbor’s thoughts, words, and deeds in a favorable way: Every good Christian ought to be more ready to give a favorable interpretation to another’s statement than to condemn it. But if he cannot do so, let him ask how the other understands it. And if the latter understands it badly, let the former correct him with love. If that does not suffice, let the Christian try all suitable ways to bring the other to a correct interpretation so that he may be saved.” ...Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 2476-2478
No problem. As soon as we get rid of islamo evil, I’ll be right there for the next death of America.
Again? I think it’s the first time.
See Post #6.
;-)
Always a caveat for the homos and unmarried.
It's not due to "unfortunate circumstances in life". It's due to obstinate sin, mortal sin.
How can these "couples" continue to be the object of merciful love while they refuse to give up sodomy?
Do you not love people in your life who are sinners?
Silly question. We’re all sinners.
Do you show false “mercy” to sodomites and/or abortionists and not discourage them from their sinful lifestyles?
If God is so merciful to unrepentant sinners, why is there a Last Judgement for each one of us. Is Hell empty?
Did God and St. Michael show mercy on Lucifer? Or love?
Always a caveat for the homos and unmarried.
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OR...it could be the perennial excuse for criticism on the part of others who do not see when he has repeatedly counseled that marriage is between one man and one woman only.
It also means that they are a continual object of the merciful love of Jesus....and thank God for that....or we would all be in trouble. Thankfully, He is gazing on us all with that same merciful love even when we fall into sin ourselves.
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How can these “couples” continue to be the object of merciful love while they refuse to give up sodomy?
They can continue to be the object of merciful love because God NEVER gives up on redeeming us from ourselves.
Why did Papa Tango give personal audiences to both a lesbian couple and a homo couple in the last 18 months and give both his "blessings"?
Why did Humble Jorge advise the adulteress in Argentina to sneak around and find a distant Catholic church to receive Holy Communion?
Why did the Bishop of Rome discourage Tony Palmer from converting to Catholicism, shortly before Palmer's untimely death?
Did Papa Tango admonish the above homo couple to cease their sodomite union?
I don’t know if he admonished them, do you?
That’s an honest question not a snarky reply. Unless you have documentation that proves all he did with those men, both in public AND in private, was have a feel-good happy “you’re ok I’m ok” meeting with them,then all you have is a picture of the Pope meeting with two very confused men.
I realize he’s not the best Pope I don’t like his Laudato Si either; but quite frankly it’s unseemly for Catholics to use his radical environmentalism as an excuse to bash him for, what seems like, just being alive.
You’d rather be met with them and had them kneel publicly before him while they wept for forgiveness?
Give me a break with this constant Francis hate fest you’ve got going on. Show the documentation that proves he didn’t admonish them at all or shut up.
Or stop calling yourself Catholic. I don’t care what the anti-Catholics say anymore but Catholics I hold to a higher standard. So if your motivation is to bash him for whatever he does just let me know. I’ll know to ignore your posts too in the future, just like I ignore all the other anti-Catholics anymore.
Amen.
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