Spanish bishop: Pope says he will not change Communion rule

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Bishop Demetrio Fernandez of Cordoba, Spain said that during his ad limina visit to the Vatican earlier this year, the Holy Father told him that “the Pope cannot change” what Jesus Christ has instituted.

This was reported in the EWTN news in UK, but I believe their reporting in the NCR had a fuller statement from Bishop Fernandez.

In an interview with the newspaper Diario Cordoba, Bishop Fernandez said, "We asked the Pope himself, and he responded that a person married in the Church who has divorced and entered into a new civil marriage cannot approach the sacraments."

“The Pope said that ‘this was established by Jesus Christ, and the pope cannot change it,’” he added.

Read more: ncregister.com/daily-news/spanish-bishop-pope-said-he-wont-change-communion-rule#ixzz3EvhxHZeM

Somebody needs to inform Cardinal Burke so he rebut another prelate’s ‘outrageous’ claim that he speaks for the Pope." forums.catholic-questions.org/showpost.php?p=12377624&postcount=1 .
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