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"Vatican-approved magazine: Exhortation opens door to Holy Communion for remarried divorcees"
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"As Catholics around the world debate the implications of Pope Francis’ controversial apostolic exhortation on the family, Amoris Laetitia, two of his close collaborators are suggesting that he has indeed opened the door to the possibility of granting Communion to remarried divorcees – a practice condemned by previous popes as a violation of Scripture and Church teaching.
Both Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, who the pope chose to present the exhortation last week, and Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro, a close advisor of the pope who reportedly helped draft the exhortation, have made that claim in recent days.
Spadaro, editor of La Civiltà Cattolica, a Jesuit journal approved by the Vatican prior to publication, wrote that Amoris Laetitia marks an “evolution” in the way the Church will approach its “accompaniment” of those living in situations that the Church teaches are objectively sinful.
In particular, he says, it incorporates a new, more open, method of discernment of individual cases, one that is 'without limits on integration, as appeared in the past.' This integration, he says, quoting the exhortation, 'in certain cases can include the help of the sacraments,' even in cases where there might be 'an objective situation of sin.'...
Schönborn, who has argued that the Church should embrace the 'positive elements' of gay unions and other sexual sins and has a history of contradicting Church teaching on the subject of homosexuality, said that there are 'no forbidden questions' when discussing Amoris Laetitia.
'We all know many priests,' who admit remarried divorcees to Holy Communion 'without discussing or asking, and that’s a fact,' and it’s 'difficult to handle for the bishop,' he said.
Pentin reported at the National Catholic Register that Schönborn’s approach to the question of Communion for the divorced and civilly remarried
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