German Bishops: Allow communion for Protestant spouses in some cases

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Honestly nothing really to see here. This was already permitted to a limited extent by Canon Law. The only thing that the German Bishops have done is brought it into a more public forum for discussion.
 
I’m glad to see the German Bishops producing a guide for pastors to use that will help teach the faithful the correct disposition for receiving the Eucharist. I think an emphasis on interior disposition is the right path to take. The emphasis during my lifetime has always been on checking the right boxes, and as long as that’s done then your free to receive.

Hopefully we can get back to what Jesus intended, and leave the days of “white washed sepulchres” behind.
 
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Congratulations to the German Bishops for the second round of reformation.
 
Yes, that´s correct.
But again, I do not think that those are the pressing issues in our church today.
As a Catholic in Germany, most things you hear from bishops or generally high church officials revolve around
intercommunion, homosexual couples, women ordination, ecumenism, yadda - yadda.
I would like to hear more about confession as a requirement for receiving communion, Latin mass or at least Latin in mass, reverent liturgies, pro-life messages, the last things, …
Germany is spiritual drylands, it is depressing. All those things combined make me consider leaving the church “officially”, i.e. no longer paying church taxes. Why should I support all of this *** financially?
 
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“These guidelines would seem to go well beyond canon law, which puts very definite limits on who can receive Communion and when. “Danger of death” or comparable “grave necessity” is what the Code of Canon Law speak about for Protestants. Clearly this is only envisaged as a one-off occasion. The German bishops’ intentions appear to go well beyond and provide for some kind of stable arrangement – receiving Communion week after week – which is completely outside what the Church provides for.”

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/com...e-german-bishops-statement-on-intercommunion/
 
There are new and wider criteria, different from the narrow ones that existed in the pass, allowing Protestants to go to communion. If they suffer spiritual distress? I would expect that with such criteria, non-Catholics would generally consider that the barrier established by the Catholic Church is down in this area, and that they can go to communion in Catholic Churches whenever they want. And I expect that reports in the future will say this is happening.

The Catholic Church in Germany is not healthy. And such a measure will make things worse off there, not better off.
 
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