Pro-Marriage, Pro-Family Voices Lodge Pre-Synod Appeals

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As Christians we place our trust in the Lord. In truth, that should be more than enough to bring peace to every heart (I confess I often fall short of that goal).

The Church still has as its Lord, Jesus Christ.

The Church has ridden many waves, peaks and valleys, yet as Jesus Promised, it will prevail until the end of this age.

Jesus I trust in you! 🙂

It is such a simply statement (Jesus I trust in you), yet is so very difficult for we humans to truly place at the center of hearts–trust does not come easy to us. Yet we must say this many times every single day: JESUS I TRUST IN YOU! 🙂

Imagine over 2,000,000,000 Christians saying that (and meaning it) ten times every day.

Every time you worry about the Church, or every time you worry about the Pope, or a Bishop, or a Cardinal, or a Priest, Deacon, Nun, Religious, or lay Catholic–just mentally pray that statement oveer-and-over until the worry disappears.

Jesus I trust in You! 🙂
 
Thank you both for signing.

If it was not the line in Tigg’s post : "Link in OP will access the appeal ", I would not know where it is. Since I missed it until just now, I thought it would be helpful to post the link. Thanks to Tigg, and to OP.

Please email the link to all your orthodox friends and your email bodies. This is a battle to fight and to win.

filialappeal.org/
 
This is forcing the pope to make a decision to satisfy those who are distraught and unwilling to await the results of the synod. He has specifically called the participants together to shed corporate light, if you will, on these very difficult problems. He is not prepared to make any assertion to satisfy your minds ahead of time, and I believe it is rash and insubordinate to demand that he do so, with an ever-so-polite power-packed appeal with hundreds of signatures.
 
The letter of petition, if read, it should be very clear that is not to satisfy anyone’s mind ahead of time. Not so at all. The sheep in the gate has all the rights to approach the shepherd with any of their concerns. The faithful should be able to approach the Holy Father if there is a need. Our Holy Father is so charismatic and he always welcomes our thoughts. Even Jesus has said not to stop the little one to approach Him.

Here is the letter of petition to read and sign:
filialappeal.org/
 
“And this is without even mentioning the obsession to make easier the procedures to annul the marital bond.” - Card. Burke.

I see that Cardinal Burke is also against making the annulment process easier.
 
LongingSoul said:
“And this is without even mentioning the obsession to make easier the procedures to annul the marital bond.” - Card. Burke.

I see that Cardinal Burke is also against making the annulment process easier.
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Amazing, isn’t it? For one who allegedly is not causing dissent, he sure manages to make his views public, to the point of urging that there be ‘demonstrations’ in one article that is here somewhere in this forum, but now he adds his clerical weight to the comments in first place below the appeal.
And I call upon all Catholics whether laymen, priests or bishops to get involved — from now until the upcoming Synodal Assembly -
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But the very naïve will still ask, where is he dissenting??? :rolleyes:
 
Sirach2 said:
Amazing, isn’t it? For one who allegedly is not causing dissent, he sure manages to make his views public, to the point of urging that there be ‘demonstrations’ in one article that is here somewhere in this forum, but now he adds his clerical weight to the comments in first place below the appeal.

But the very naïve will still ask, where is he dissenting??? :rolleyes:
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:rolleyes: Naive are we? :rolleyes: Aren’t you off CAF for lent?
 
PTL said:
The letter of petition, if read, it should be very clear that is not to satisfy anyone’s mind ahead of time. Not so at all. The sheep in the gate has all the rights to approach the shepherd with any of their concerns. The faithful should be able to approach the Holy Father if there is a need. Our Holy Father is so charismatic and he always welcomes our thoughts. Even Jesus has said not to stop the little one to approach Him.

Here is the letter of petition to read and sign:
filialappeal.org/
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So true and not only are the rights of the laity outlined in Canon law [212] but the faithful have consistently played a role in the historical life of the church because of sensus fidelium.
As the faith of the individual believer participates in the faith of the Church as a believing subject, so the sensus fidei (fidelis) of individual believers cannot be separated from the sensus fidei (fidelium) or ‘sensus Ecclesiae’[80] of the Church herself, endowed and sustained by the Holy Spirit,[81] and the consensus fidelium constitutes a sure criterion for recognising a particular teaching or practice as in accord with the apostolic Tradition.[82]
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vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/cti_documents/rc_cti_20140610_sensus-fidei_en.html#2._Manifestations_of_the_sensus_fidei_in_the_personal_life_of_believers
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PTL said:
Many faithful are very concerned. Here are the sites you can sign to make the petition.

filialappeal.org/

lifesitenews.com/petitions/pope-francis-appeal/386527

americaneedsfatima.org/forms/E15016a.html

tfpstudentaction.org/sign-petition-to-pope-francis.html

Please sign them and pass to all Catholics you know, invite them to do their part also.
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👍

Thanks for the links, PTL:thumbsup: And God bless you for spreading the word. We need
more people like you.:blessyou:

Other personalities who have signed::cool: (There are more personalities on the list)
  • His Eminence Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke (Vatican) :knight2:
  • His Eminence Jorge Arturo Cardinal Medina Estévez (Chile) :knight1:
  • Kigeli V, exiled King of Rwanda
  • Dr. Alejandro Ordóñez Maldonado, Attorney General of the Republic of Colombia
  • John-Henry Westen, Co-founder and Editor-in-chief of LifeSiteNews.com, co-founder of Voice of the Family (Canada)
  • Rick Santorum former U.S. Senator (USA)
  • Josef Seifert philosopher, former President of the International Academy of Philosophy, member of the Pontifical Academy for Life (Germany)
  • H.R.H. Prince Dom Duarte, Duke of Braganza Head of the Royal House of Portugal :highprayer:
God bless all of these wonderful people! And I pray that more people sign this. Thank you.

filialappeal.org/personalities-who-have-signed,3229,c.html

+PAX,

TOTUS TUUS MARIA! :highprayer:
 
Sirach2 said:
Amazing, isn’t it? For one who allegedly is not causing dissent, he sure manages to make his views public, to the point of urging that there be ‘demonstrations’ in one article that is here somewhere in this forum, but now he adds his clerical weight to the comments in first place below the appeal.

***But the very naïve will still ask, where is he dissenting??? *** :rolleyes:
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I’m not buying it…and I’m certainly not naïve. Now the German Cardinals? Bingo! There’s your dissention! Dissenting from established doctrine! What about them? They’ve certainly managed to make their views public…haven’t they?

Peace, Mark
 
Is it any wonder why so many Catholics have left the Church? While I don’t agree on the changing of the Church’s doctrine on marriage, there definitely should be an end to the one size fits all annulment process. If someone has been divorced and lost for 30 years and wants to come back to the Church, but has no witnesses available because of death or people have moved away or lost contact what are they to do? Divorce has left many psychologically destroyed and scarred. If you haven’t been through an annulment process (I haven’t, but I have helped people through it) you shouldn’t judge people. The annulment process shouldn’t be a one size fits all. I know of someone who had a five month marriage, no children, the man left after she paid all his bills, it was a total con job, it was declared a fraud by inducement by the courts, and yet this person has to go through the whole rigmarole and wait almost a year and a half, while she has moved on and is married after 15 years and blessed with beautiful children. What is the tribunal going to do? Tell them to get divorced and go back to the moron that pulled such a wicked stunt? I doubt it. Not only that, but I have seen the work of Christ in this couple and amazing answered prayers. Jesus is really going to bless a family and yet deny them his body and blood? I doubt it. Cardinal Burke sounds like one of the Pharisees to me. Pope Francis has inferred in a number of homilies that the Eucharist should be given to the divorced and remarried and is expected to make the change in October. We’ll wait and see. It will be interesting. It’s the least the Church can do after harboring and protecting child rapists and trying to avoid scandal by any means necessary. I love my Catholic faith, but the truth is the truth and sometimes the truth hurts. There are a good number of undercover homosexuals in the Catholic Church placing heavy undo burdens on it members. I look forward to seeing them before the Lord on judgment day. Hypocrites!!! Serpents!!! Brood of vipers!!!
 
GiveTheTruth said:
… while she has moved on and is married after 15 years and blessed with beautiful children.
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At the least she should see to it that the children are raised properly in the Church properly without the accusations you leveled against it. I’m sure the Pope et al would want that as well for the kids.
 
The kids are enrolled in CCD classes. One of them will be confirmed this year. This is a wonderful family blessed by the Lord. I fully understand that Jesus said that what God has brought together let no man separate, but He also said if your eye causes you to sin gouge it out or if your hand or foot causes you to sin you should chop it off. How come Cardinal Burke still has his hand and eyes? Any man who looks upon a woman in lust commits adultery. Let’s ban all men from the Eucharist. I love my Catholic faith, but it’s a damaged institution in need of some repair. Pope Francis is on the right path.
 
GiveTheTruth said:
I fully understand that Jesus said that what God has brought together let no man separate, but He also said if your eye causes you to sin gouge it out or if your hand or foot causes you to sin you should chop it off. How come Cardinal Burke still has his hand and eyes?
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Using that logic, everyone should blow their brains out so they don’t sin.
GiveTheTruth said:
Any man who looks upon a woman in lust commits adultery. Let’s ban all men from the Eucharist. I love my Catholic faith, but it’s a damaged institution in need of some repair. Pope Francis is on the right path.
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If someone looked at a woman with lust he would go to confession, promise not to repeat the sin, and be in good standing.

A person in an adulterous relationship by remarriage can promise to stop having sex with their partner and be in full communion to receive the Eucharist.

It’s not a hard concept to grasp.
 
Prediction: Pope Francis will permit the divorced and remarried to receive communion.
Prediction: There will be a change in the annulment process, but the Church’s teaching on marriage will rightfully remain intact.

Pope Francis has been a glass of cool water on a hot day to many a people. The love of the Lord is working through him. People are returning to the Church. If the divorced and remarried are permitted to partake communion, as the Pope has been suggesting in more ways that one, there will be an unprecedented number of Episcopalians returning to the Church, according to some surveys, that is.
“Lord I am not worthy that you should come under my roof, but only say the word and I shall be healed” should apply to all.
 
Hopalong said:
Prediction: Pope Francis will permit the divorced and remarried to receive communion.
Prediction: There will be a change in the annulment process, but the Church’s teaching on marriage will rightfully remain intact.
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If this happens, one sacrament would then be undermined at the expense of promoting another. The teaching would not remain intact.
 
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