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Cardinal: be welcoming to those married outside the Church without admitting them to Communion [CWN]
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philipl
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Isnt the church already welcoming to those who have married outside the church? I dont think I have ever seen anyone turned away at the doors.Reflecting on the upcoming Synod of Bishops on the family, Cardinal Ennio Antonelli said in an interview that the Church can be welcoming to those who have remarried outside the Church …
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jeannetherese
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From the article:
“They have to be part of the life of the Church with concrete gestures of welcome, friendship, and respect,” he told Rome Reports. “For example, with separated brothers, with Christians who are not Catholic, they can be in line for Communion to receive a blessing.”
The prelate, who served as president of the Pontifical Council for the Family from 2008 until his retirement in 2012, recently wrote a short book strongly criticizing the proposal to admit persons in non-sacramental civil marriages to Holy Communion.
“There are many reasons for why marriage is in crisis, but some of them that stand out: we live in a secular culture dominated by individualism, relativism, consumerism, and hedonism,” Cardinal Antonelli continued in the interview. “God is marginal, as if He wasn’t relevant.”
“The way society, the economy, or work is organized penalizes the family instead of supporting and promoting it,” he added. “For proof we only have to see the married couples who spend lots of time far apart from each other because they must work.”
“They have to be part of the life of the Church with concrete gestures of welcome, friendship, and respect,” he told Rome Reports. “For example, with separated brothers, with Christians who are not Catholic, they can be in line for Communion to receive a blessing.”
The prelate, who served as president of the Pontifical Council for the Family from 2008 until his retirement in 2012, recently wrote a short book strongly criticizing the proposal to admit persons in non-sacramental civil marriages to Holy Communion.
“There are many reasons for why marriage is in crisis, but some of them that stand out: we live in a secular culture dominated by individualism, relativism, consumerism, and hedonism,” Cardinal Antonelli continued in the interview. “God is marginal, as if He wasn’t relevant.”
“The way society, the economy, or work is organized penalizes the family instead of supporting and promoting it,” he added. “For proof we only have to see the married couples who spend lots of time far apart from each other because they must work.”
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Elizium23
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It is interesting, because one of the things specifically brought up in the CDWDS letter about “blessings” in the Communion line was confusion for the divorced/remarried:“They have to be part of the life of the Church with concrete gestures of welcome, friendship, and respect,” he told Rome Reports. “For example, with separated brothers, with Christians who are not Catholic, they can be in line for Communion to receive a blessing.”
- The Apostolic Exhortation Familiaris Consortio, n. 84, “forbids any pastor, for whatever reason to pretext even of a pastoral nature, to perform ceremonies of any kind for divorced people who remarry.” To be feared is that any form of blessing in substitution for communion would give the impression that the divorced and remarried have been returned, in some sense, to the status of Catholics in good standing.
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Mongo
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Anyone and anything can receive a blessing, they don’t even need to be Catholic.It is interesting, because one of the things specifically brought up in the CDWDS letter about “blessings” in the Communion line was confusion for the divorced/remarried:
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JimG
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But who is going to give the blessings? EMHC’s? Will the communion line be turned into a blessing line? That sort of muddies the liturgy, I would think. There are all sorts of ways to be welcoming.Anyone and anything can receive a blessing, they don’t even need to be Catholic.
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