The page was actually condemning the pope because it thought that he would change the rules on divorce. Oh well. All we can do is pray and hope that this synod finds a solution to this problem that would be in accord with moral teachings.If a traditionalist or anyone else is arguing that the Church teaching on divorce can change, then they can hardly be considered “traditional.” That doesn’t mean that the way that the Church deals with its disciplines (like celibacy, for example) or the divorced and remarried or with annulments cannot be amended in some way. But there can never be Catholic divorce. Period.
As Fr. Richard John Neuhaus put it, “the center still holds,” which is another way of saying that the Church will also have in its midst those who push too far ahead or too far backwards. But the Church still reaches to bring them all within her grasp. There are a lot of “traditionalists” and liberals who will be very surprised when the Church continues to be one, holy, catholic, and apostolic, when the center, as it were, still holds, even the face of tremendous pressure to move one way or another.The page was actually condemning the pope because it thought that he would change the rules on divorce. Oh well. All we can do is pray and hope that this synod finds a solution to this problem that would be in accord with moral teachings.
Generally yes, but in the matters of marriages and annulments and such, even the schismatic churches get involved unfortunately and it’s not uncommon to mix and match procedures among them and the Catholic Church.I would avoid those kinds of “traditionalist” pages. They are no more in communion with the Church than Catholics who dissent on the liberal side of the spectrum. Anyone making that about the Holy Father claim isn’t “traditionalist”, they’re schismatic and openly denying Scripture and Jesus’s promise to Saint Peter.
Don’t risk your soul by flirting with these people, essentially conspiracy theorists by another name.
This hype is a combination of wishful thinking on the part of some, fear on the part of others, and the fact that controversy generates readership. Best to treat it as what it is - gossip that, when it is founded on anything, is as much founded on willful misinterpretation and one’s own state of mind as it is anything else.Hello. Unfortunately, I have seen disturbing claims on Facebook from pages liked by my friends. It said that the Pope is in favor of waiving the rules that prohibit divorcees in irregular canonical states from receiving Communion. It also said that the Pope told a divorcee who was refused Communion that she was not wrong. Did that incident ever happen? Lastly, regarding the Holy Synod on the Family, I read the Vatican document but I wonder if the Pope really said that he was in favor of the idea…
The laity condemning the pope? That doesn’t sound very traditional. Since nothing has actually happened yet, it doesn’t seem charitable as well.The page was actually condemning the pope because it thought that he would change the rules on divorce. .
Just wanted to say I like how you put that and unless it’s copywrited will probably use it myself sometime in the future.he may be less traditional but he is not less orthodox.