Posted on 04/19/2016 7:07:02 AM PDT by marshmallow
In a question-and-answer session with reporters who accompanied him on his April 16 visit to the Greek island of Lesbos, Pope Francis acknowledged that his apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia has changed the Church’s approach to the reception of Communion by Catholics who are divorced and remarried. But he stressed that the question was by no means the most important issue covered in his apostolic exhortation.
The Pope remarked that the media coverage of the Synod did not reflect the reality of the discussion. He said:
When I convoked the first Synod, the great concern of the majority of the media was whether divorced and remarried Catholics would have access to communion. And since I am not a saint, this bothered me, and also made me rather sad, because I thought, 'do you not realize that that is not the important problem? Don’t you realize that instead the family throughout the world is in crisis? The family is the basis of society. Do you not realize that the young don’t want to marry? Don’t you realize that the falling birth rate in Europe is something to cry about? Don’t you realize that the lack of work or the little work available means that a mother has to get two jobs and her children grow up alone? These are the big problems.
Questioned specifically on whether he had called for a change on Communion for divorced/remarried Catholics, the Pope replied: “I could say Yes, but it would be too brief an answer.” Instead of a direct response, he encouraged reporters to refer to the presentation of the apostolic exhortation given by Cardinal Christoph Schönborn at a Vatican press conference.
The Pope also answered several questions about immigration, and his gesture of bringing a dozen refugees back from Lesbos to live at the Vatican.
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Psalms 109:8
Lemme guess: the important problem is climate change.
The other problem are those evil white Americans who work hard, sacrifice constantly to raise their children right, pay taxes, give to charity, respect others and don’t cause trouble. They have too much.
Sed contra, I would say that reversing the teaching of the Catechism, St John Paul’s magisterium and the 2000 year tradition of the Church is pretty important. This is smoke and obfuscation. And I don’t believe for a second he didn’t remember that Footnote 251.
This Pope is such a lying, degenerate POS.
Thank marshmallow for spreading falsity that feeds your hatred.
The article quotes the Pope's own words during the in-flight press conference during his retuen from Lesbos. Where exactly is the "falsity"?
Feel free to cut and paste anything in the article which you consider to be false. I'm waiting.
While you're at it, send an email to Phil Lawler and Jeff Mirus at Catholic Culture which published the article.
Bergoglio deserves the scorn he gets. The Pope and Magisterium are to protect and promulgate the essential message of the Gospel instead of preaching secular humanism and socialism and New Age, conciliar religion.
When does he speak of Heaven? Hell? Mortal Sin? Purgatory? Repentance? The unique, life-saving power of Jesus Christ alone?
Here’s a hint....he doesn’t. It’s easy to avoid those topics when you could give a @#$% less about them.
He’s pulling our leg, right?
Note especially the heresy promulgated in footnote #351.
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"Every one that is of the truth, heareth my voice." John 18:37
"And in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish; because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. Therefore God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying" 2 Thessalonians 2:10
No, the most important issue is that the Church is in Crisis...and has been for over 50 years. Of course your heresy is part and parcel of that crisis, Mr. False Pope. How much longer will you fool the innocent?
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