Sicilian Bishops’ AL Guidelines Authorize Communion for Adulterous Couples

[Mark121359]

May our Lord forgive the Church and have mercy on all of us. I ache for the souls that will be bewildered and lost through the confusions, divisions and discords. Since just prior to the Synod on the Families, we have been witnessing the unveiling of a very sad chapter in the history of the Church that deeply wounds the unity and the credibility of the Church.

Let’s brace ourselves as it will get much, much worse in the years ahead as crazy ideas and heretical viewpoints will be made known without being censured or reproached. Meanwhile, viewpoints faithful to Christ and the Magisterium will be mocked, dismissed and silenced. Those in the hierarchy of the Church who are responsible for the confusions, divisions and discords in the Church will have to face the judgment of our Lord in due time. This is a serious matter.

I believe it will be a future pope who will clarify this whole mess and make the Church whole again. But it will take generations for the Church to heal. Let’s have recourse to prayers and ask our Holy Mother to intercede for the Church. The Church had been through a lot worse. Christ will never abandon the Church, and will triumph over Satan once again. Let’s hope and pray that this very sad chapter currently being written will be a very short one.

I completely agree with your post and believe things will indeed get much worse. It would appear that Amoris Laetitia is just the tip of the iceberg. Day after day we’re bombarded with stories such as this, and this, and .this. And that’s just a sampling. I’ve read countless such articles from very credible sites. My belief is that the Church is in serious crisis as Cardinal Sarah suggests here.

Peace, Mark

 

[pnewton]

IMHO, the title here seems to be more inflammatory than the actual guidelines.

I noted that as well, so I went to the website of the Archdiocese of Chicago. They have an extensive listing of ministries and lay ministries, of which “Catholic Citizens of Illinois” is not included. Therefore, there is no reason to believe they have the authority or even the willingness, to honestly translate the article are blog about it. In absence of that authority, there is no reason to believe anything on the internet anymore than we would believe everything we read on the internet.

It is best to stick where the Church is and where authority leads us into the fullness of truth. There is no shortage of lies and gossip out there.

 

[JPUSC]

May our Lord forgive the Church and have mercy on all of us. I ache for the souls that will be bewildered and lost through the confusions, divisions and discords. Since just prior to the Synod on the Families, we have been witnessing the unveiling of a very sad chapter in the history of the Church that deeply wounds the unity and the credibility of the Church.

Let’s brace ourselves as it will get much, much worse in the years ahead as crazy ideas and heretical viewpoints will be made known without being censured or reproached. Meanwhile, viewpoints faithful to Christ and the Magisterium will be mocked, dismissed and silenced. Those in the hierarchy of the Church who are responsible for the confusions, divisions and discords in the Church will have to face the judgment of our Lord in due time. This is a serious matter.

I believe it will be a future pope who will clarify this whole mess and make the Church whole again. But it will take generations for the Church to heal. Let’s have recourse to prayers and ask our Holy Mother to intercede for the Church. The Church had been through a lot worse. Christ will never abandon the Church, and will triumph over Satan once again. Let’s hope and pray that this very sad chapter currently being written will be a very short one.

 

[JPUSC]

I completely agree with your post and believe things will indeed get much worse. It would appear that Amoris Laetitia is just the tip of the iceberg. Day after day we’re bombarded with stories such as this, and this, and this… And that’s just a sampling. I’ve read countless such articles from very credible sites. My belief is that the Church is in serious crisis as Cardinal Sarah suggests here.

Peace, Mark

 

[Randolph]

Could anyone be blamed for getting the impression (at least in a few dioceses) that adultery, divorce-remarriage, and homosexual relationships are now acceptable within the Catholic Church ?

…and gay marriages and polygamy… And any other unrepented sins.

It may sound ridiculous, but the same logic applies…

 

[Randolph]

IMHO, the title here seems to be more inflammatory than the actual guidelines. They do NOT state “Everyone who is divorced and civilly married should be given the Eucharist with no questions asked”.

Now I suppose it’s possible some pastors may indeed just throw up their hands and use this guideline to allow precisely that.

But at least according to the actual quote, seems that the couple actually needs to go to Confession before being admitted to the Eucharist, and this is mentioned as a possibility, not a definite yes to everyone who is in that position.

Can an adulterous couple be granted absolution in Confession if they remain unrepented in their adulterous relationship? If no, is there any possibility that they could be admitted to the Eucharist?

 

[Sy_Noe]

Articles like this one only confirms it. If this Pope doesn’t address this soon, many, many souls will be placed in serious peril. I’ve never uttered such words about my Church before but…what a massive mess.

Peace, Mark

I doubt that the vicar of Christ on earth in the year of our Lord 2017, as I thought faithful lay Catholics believed him to be, would be placing many, many souls in serious peril.

 

[St_Francis]

Can an adulterous couple be granted absolution in Confession if they remain unrepented in their adulterous relationship? If no, is there any possibility that they could be admitted to the Eucharist?

It used to be that those in an irregular marriage could not receive *any *of the sacraments until they had the intention of sinning no more. So these people could receive counseling from a priest, but not any sacraments, not even Confession.

 

[Wedge_Antilles]

I doubt that the vicar of Christ on earth in the year of our Lord 2017, as I thought faithful lay Catholics believed him to be, would be placing many, many souls in serious peril.

Priests and Bishops do it all the time, throughout history.

 

[ARSpade]

I’m wondering if we can get a list of similar sins we can treat in the same manner?

I struggle with, for example, taking the Lord’s name in vain in various ways. Can I just get that waived away to, go take communion, and stop working on it?

 

[Randolph]

I doubt that the vicar of Christ on earth in the year of our Lord 2017, as I thought faithful lay Catholics believed him to be, would be placing many, many souls in serious peril.

You do realize that all vicars of Christ through all the years of our Lord, despite their very, very best efforts and sacrifices, were men and therefore made mistakes. They sinned and availed themselves to the Sacrament of Confession with the promise to amend their lives and sin no more.

A brief review of Church history would reveal many vicars of Christ were indeed Holy men and were canonized as saints. They have been and forever will be in Heaven with Christ and with all the saints praying for souls and for the Church. Meanwhile, many vicars of Christ were simply awful, horrible men that simply deserved the worst condemnations. These men had to answer to Christ for what they did.

 

[ARSpade]

I doubt that the vicar of Christ on earth in the year of our Lord 2017, as I thought faithful lay Catholics believed him to be, would be placing many, many souls in serious peril.

As I gaze back at Church history, I find this post makes me laugh.

 

[irenaeus1]

It is amazing that in a year’s time we have moved the discussion from whether D&R should be able to receive Holy Communion in certain rare and exceptional circumstances after discernment and accompaniment and the debate about hypothetical scenarios where this might be the case, to essentially any D&R receiving Holy Communion at will. And can a person who has an ongoing affair expect the same wink and a nod from the Church? Or does the Church have to wait for the offending spouse first to approach the state to obtain a legal separation and then approach the state again to marry the mistress, at which time, the Church can now give the go-ahead nod and approve (as if documents from the state have any theological status)?

Can the same principle be used to justify other sins? Can a Christian live in a polygamous relationship if they feel in their conscience that it is morally licit? Can a Christian not give alms to the poor if they feel in their conscience that certain of the poor brought their state in life upon themselves; e.g., in the West, we are not really in a caste system. What about racism? Can a Christian openly profess that certain other races are inferior to his own, and expect the Church to not speak out and merely respect his erroneous conscience? Just wondering how far this principle can be carried.