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‘Amoris Laetitia’ doesn’t undermine Church teaching on sin
- Commentary
- April 13, 2017
‘Amoris Laetitia’ has caused a shift in moral theology — but no innovation: As many have pointed out, it’s wholly consonant even with recent papal teaching, and is rooted in an ancient pastoral tradition. To walk with people living in objective states of sin but with diminished subjective culpability, helping them to do God’s will in their concrete state with the help of the sacraments, doesn’t undermine teaching on sin, but puts into practice the merciful pedagogy of God.
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Why Catholics uncomfortable with ‘Amoris’ aren’t ‘dissenters’
- Commentary, Global Church
- January 29, 2017
Most Catholics uncomfortable with ‘Amoris Laetitia’ aren’t dissenters or people with an ax to grind against the pope, but rather people who simply want their children to know and follow the Church’s call to sexual integrity and marital fidelity — and, to be clear, that’s not only possible, but life-giving.
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Maltese bishops: Remarried Catholics ‘at peace’ can receive Communion
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- January 13, 2017
In guidelines for the application of Pope Francis’s “Amoris Laetitia”, the bishops of Malta say that divorced and civilly remarried Catholics who, with “an informed and enlightened conscience,” believe they’re at peace with God,”cannot be precluded from participating in the sacraments.”
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Conscience can’t be the final arbiter on who gets Communion
- Commentary
- January 8, 2017
Typical pastors reading ‘Amoris’ are likely to stumble into accepting its central flaw, namely, assuming that an individual Catholic’s assessment of his or her own conscience is the sole criterion that governs a minister’s decision to give holy Communion to a member of the faithful.
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A case study in communion for the divorced/remarried
- Commentary
- January 6, 2017
‘Amoris Laetita’ calls on pastors to distinguish among the circumstances of different cases in assessing whether a divorced and civilly remarried Catholic can receive communion, and here’s one hypothetical situation in which Father Paul Keller says his answer would be ‘yes.’
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Pope decries ‘prophets of doom’ wanting only ‘the usual fare’
- Vatican
- January 6, 2017
Celebrating the feast of the Epiphany on Thursday, Pope Francis decried the attitude of “prophets of doom,” a phrase with a long history in papal rhetoric, praising the Biblical Magi as examples of being “tired of the usual fare” and open to something new.
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