Papal exhortation avoids clear statement on Communion

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pnewton said:
First, let me say I liked what you wrote. It was very well said. I only wish to address this last part. Marriage as an ideal and a lifestyle are not incompatible. In fact, it is essential to have the ideal to have the lifestyle, just like one needs the ideal of a healthy weight to diet, or the ideal of the lane to drive. If one runs off the road, it makes more sense to get on it than it does to abandon ever driving again. If one sins against the marriage, it is the very ideal of what marriage is supposed to be that motivates one to return to the true course.

Amoris Laetitia is much more about marriage than remarriage. The suggestion that it is confusing about the indissolubility of marriage is laughable. That is one point that is hammered home in this document:

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The Synod Fathers noted that Jesus, “in speaking of God’s original plan for man and woman, reaffirmed the indissoluble union between them,…
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The indissolubility of marriage – ‘what God has joined together, let no man put asunder’ (Mt 19:6) – should not be viewed as a ‘yoke’ imposed on humanity, but as a ‘gift’ granted to those who are joined in marriage…

I did a quick count and found the word “indissoluble” used a dozen times as a descriptor of marriage, btw.
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Good. Then Jesus meant what he said and the Church teaches what he said. Indissolubility and permanence are indeed the gifts to the married.
 
Don_Ruggero said:
With all due respect: no. I am not engaging in discussions with the lay faithful…
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Sounds condescending, although I’m sure it was not meant to be so, but why wouldn’t you engage in discussions with the lay faithful on this?
 
irenaeus1 said:
And even if only valid.
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The Church does allow the validly non-sacramentally married (i.e. with a non-baptized partner or both non-baptized partners) dissolution in favour of the faith: cf the Pauline and Petrine privileges.
 
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