Pope Francis Calls Extraordinary Synod, “Speedy Decisions” Concerning Marriage

Oct 8

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The news is here.

If I am alarmed, it’s because I should.

Has Francis learnt anything from the turmoil he has caused in the last weeks?

We’ll soon know.

Mundabor

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UPDATE: IMPORTANT NEWS FROM “Rorate Caeli”

The Vatican has put a German diocese on notice that it disapproves of its challenge to church teaching on whether Catholics who remarry can receive Communion.

The diocese of Freiburg issued an official set of guidelines this week explaining how such divorced and remarried Catholics could receive the sacrament.

Church teaching holds that Catholics who don’t have their first marriages annulled, or declared null by a church tribunal, before remarrying cannot participate fully in the church’s sacraments because they are essentially committing adultery. The issue has vexed the church for decades and Pope Francis has said it is something that must be addressed.

But the Vatican said Tuesday that Freiburg’s local initiative “risks causing confusion.” It said the issue will be discussed at a meeting of bishops next year.

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Posted on October 8, 2013, in Catholicism, Conservative Catholicism, Traditional Catholicism and tagged . Bookmark the permalink. 10 Comments.

  1. Anthony Ferrara's avatar Anthony Ferrara | October 8, 2013 at 6:17 pm

    This is very alarming. I pray he doesn’t go against Church teaching on divorce and remarriage.

    • Mundabor's avatar Mundabor | October 8, 2013 at 6:23 pm

      I think he will choose the V II way.
      The bishops will be let free to be “pastoral”, according to the “local circumstances”.
      Chaos and confusion will follow.
      Francis will feel very good with himself.
      Dissenters the world over will praise him to the sky.
      The Clericalist Troops will say nothing has changed. They will make another triplo salto, and read all through Benedict.

      I might be wrong, of course.

      I am merely making an assumption based on the experience of the last seven months.

      M

  2. estersimplicia's avatar estersimplicia | October 8, 2013 at 6:44 pm

    The archbishop of Freiburg in Germany just tried to establish “a pastoral solution” on the issue of divorced and married again couples. (It’s today in all german news papers)

    In principle it is nothing new, because the german bishops allowed that “divorced and married again couples” to go to Holy Communion if the have dicussed it with their parish priest, ive a pious live and so on, and it didn’t bother the parish.
    This was written in a pastoral letter in 1993!
    Rome had then (in 1993) criticized this part of the letter, but didn’t prohibit this practise.
    But it was done in a decent way.
    Now I think under pope francis all these modernistic priests and people smell “morning air”.
    We harvest what has been sowed long time ago.

    • Mundabor's avatar Mundabor | October 8, 2013 at 7:10 pm

      It can be that Francis will stop them. But knowing the man, I can’t imagine he will do it in the right way.
      I smell a relaxation of the criteria for annulment, or a “the priest decides in the concrete situation” statement that sanctions the sacrilege without saying it officially.
      It can also be that this is the time orthodoxy dares to defy the madness, though.
      M

  4. Sean C's avatar Sean C | October 9, 2013 at 2:12 am

    Is it true that we will have to wait until October 2014 for a decision? That is a long time. I dread the off the cuff comments about this subject until then.

  5. Sean C's avatar Sean C | October 9, 2013 at 2:33 am

    Mundabor my friend,

    Thank you for your Catholic Vademecum section. I took your advice and printed the Catechism of Saint Pius X.

    God Bless you and your readers,
    Sean

  6. itascriptaest's avatar Ita Scripta Est | October 9, 2013 at 7:04 am

    I bet he’ll take a chapter from the Eastern Schismatics and relax the contraception and divorce rules.