Divorced & Communion

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Herranz and communion to remarried divorcees
*****On the occasion of the presentation of the instruction Dignitatis connubi, on 8 February, Cardinal Julián Herranz, president of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, is reported as stating: «Remarried divorcees are not excommunicated, they are fully in the Church. Receiving communion or not, is also related to the public scandal that their situation can provoke within a specific Christian community. Where there is no such scandal, these Christians can receive communion». The words of the cardinal were reported by La Repubblica the day after the presentation, in an article signed by Orazio La Rocca.

30giorni.it/us/brevi.asp?id=169
 
You mean it’s not just the clergy in the U.S. that slip up?
I don’t know whether I’m more relieved or more horrified. . .

Of course, we don’t really have the actual statement in context, just that it was reported by one of the Italian papers, right? And we remember that it was one of the Italian media that announced the death of JP on April 1–jumping the gun by a day–so I’m going to take this with a BIG grain of salt. . .
 
I was thinking of the poor Spanish bishops with the the misreported condom statement.😦

But I must say if Harrantz said it, and I was in that position, I’d copy this and get thee to your nearest canon lawyer to check it out.
 
Sarah Jane:
According to the cardinal Ratzinger : “If the divorced are remarried civilly, they find themselves in a situation that objectively contravenes God’s law. Consequently, they cannot receive Holy Communion as long as this situation persists.”

vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_14091994_rec-holy-comm-by-divorced_en.html
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Your document is dated 1994 - this statement is from Feb. 2005 .beats me, I don’t write’em, I just post’em.
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HagiaSophia:
Herranz and communion to remarried divorcees
*****On the occasion of the presentation of the instruction Dignitatis connubi, on 8 February, Cardinal Julián Herranz, president of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, is reported as stating: «Remarried divorcees are not excommunicated, they are fully in the Church. Receiving communion or not, is also related to the public scandal that their situation can provoke within a specific Christian community. Where there is no such scandal, these Christians can receive communion». The words of the cardinal were reported by La Repubblica the day after the presentation, in an article signed by Orazio La Rocca.

30giorni.it/us/brevi.asp?id=169
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I would guess that he possibly had the Internal Forum in mind.
 
Br. Rich SFO:
I would guess that he possibly had the Internal Forum in mind.
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Thank you so much! I have been racking my brain all day for the proper nomenclature and just could not remember it.
 
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