Here is the English text of the Argentinian bishops advice on AL, followed by Pope Francis' recommendation of the advice: The Buenos Aires Pastoral Region (Argentina), where Cardinal Bergoglio used to work, encompasses the city of Buenos Aires and nearby cities, with a population of more than 13 million inhabitants. The Region is made up by more than 20 Bishops. Recently, they have sent their priests a document explaining their criteria on the potential access to sacraments of “the divorced who have entered a new union”. What makes this message particularly interesting is that it was sent to Pope Francis, who answered it with a letter stating that “the document is very good and thoroughly specifies the meaning of chapter VIII of Amoris laetitia. There are no further interpretations”. Therefore, the Bishops’ letter makes it possible to unambiguously recognize the correct interpretation of the papal document regarding the true scope of chapter VIII. The Pope also asked the Bishops to help disseminate the entire document, which is an invitation to consolidate marriages. Buenos Aires Pastoral Region — Basic criteria for the implementation of chapter VIII of Amoris laetitia Dear priests, we have received with joy the exhortation Amoris laetitia, which invites us, above all, to encourage the growth of love between spouses and to motivate the youth to opt for marriage and a family. These are important issues that should never be disregarded or overshadowed by other matters. Francis has opened several doors in pastoral care for families and we are invited to leverage this time of mercy with a view to endorsing, as a pilgrim Church, the richness offered by the different chapters of this Apostolic Exhortation. We will now focus on chapter VIII, since it refers to the “guidelines of the bishop” (300) in order to discern on the potential access to sacraments of the “divorced who have entered a new union”. We deem it convenient, as Bishops of the same Pastoral Region, to agree on some basic criteria. We present them without prejudice to the authority that each Bishop has over his own Diocese to clarify, complete or restrict them. 1) Firstly, we should remember that it is not advisable to speak of “permissions” to have access to sacraments, but of a discernment process in the company of a pastor. It is a “personal and pastoral discernment” (300). 2) In this path, the pastor should emphasize the fundamental proclamation, the kerygma, so as to foster or renew a personal encounter with the living Christ (cf. 58). 3) Pastoral accompaniment is an exercise of the “via caritatis”. It is an invitation to follow “the way of Jesus, the way of mercy and reinstatement” (296). This itinerary requires the pastoral charity of the priest who receives the penitent, listens to him/her attentively and shows him/her the maternal face of the Church, while also accepting his/her righteous intention and good purpose to devote his/her whole life to the light of the Gospel and to practise charity (cf. 306). 4) This path does not necessarily finish in the sacraments; it may also lead to other ways of achieving further integration into the life of the Church: greater presence in the community, participation in prayer or reflection groups, engagement in ecclesial services, etc. (cf. 299) 5) Whenever feasible depending on the specific circumstances of a couple, especially when both partners are Christians walking the path of faith, a proposal may be made to resolve to live in continence. Amoris laetitia does not ignore the difficulties arising from this option (cf. footnote 329) and offers the possibility of having access to the sacrament of Reconciliation if the partners fail in this purpose (cf. footnote 364, recalling the teaching that Saint John Paul II sent to Cardinal W. Baum, dated 22 March, 1996). 6) In more complex cases, and when a declaration of nullity has not been obtained, the above mentioned option may not, in fact, be feasible. Nonetheless, a path of discernment is still possible. If it is acknowledged that, in a concrete case, there are limitations that mitigate responsibility and culpability (cf. 301-302), especially when a person believes he/she would incur a subsequent fault by harming the children of the new union, Amoris laetitia offers the possibility of having access to the sacraments of Reconciliation and Eucharist (cf. footnotes 336 and 351). These sacraments, in turn, prepare the person to continue maturing and growing with the power of grace. 7) However, it should not be understood that this possibility implies unlimited access to sacraments, or that all situations warrant such unlimited access. The proposal is to properly discern each case. For example, special care should be taken of “a new union arising from a recent divorce” or “the case of someone who has consistently failed in his obligations to the family” (298). Also, when there is a sort of apology or ostentation of the person’s situation “as if it were part of the Christian ideal” (297). In these difficult cases, we should be patient companions, and seek a path of reinstatement (cf. 297, 299). 8) It is always important to guide people to stand before God with their conscience. A useful tool to do this is the “examination of conscience” proposed by Amoris laetitia 300, specifically in relation to “how did they act towards their children” or the abandoned partner. Where there have been unresolved injustices, providing access to sacraments is particularly outrageous. 9) It may be convenient for an eventual access to sacraments to take place in a discreet manner, especially if troublesome situations can be anticipated. At the same time, however, the community should be accompanied so that it may grow in its spirit of understanding and acceptance, without letting this situation create confusion about the teaching of the Church on the indissoluble marriage. The community is an instrument of mercy, which is “unmerited, unconditional and gratuitous” (297). 10) Discernment is not closed, because it “is dynamic; it must remain ever open to new stages of growth and to new decisions which can enable the ideal to be more fully realized” (303), according to the “law of gradualness” (295) and with confidence in the help of grace. Above all, we are pastors. This is why we would like to welcome the following words of the Pope: “I also encourage the Church’s pastors to listen [to the faithful] with sensitivity and serenity, with a sincere desire to understand their plight and their point of view, in order to help them live better lives and to recognize their proper place in the Church” (312). With love in Christ, The Bishops of the Region 5 September, 2016 —— Vatican City, 5 September, 2016 To the Bishops of the Buenos Aires Pastoral Region, Mons. Sergio Alfredo Fenoy, Delegate of the Region Dear brother, I received the document of the Buenos Aires Pastoral Region entitled “Basic criteria for the implementation of chapter VIII of Amoris laetitia”. Thank you very much for sending it, and let me congratulate you on the work that you have undertaken: a true example of accompaniment of priests…and we all know how necessary it is for a bishop to stay close to his priests and for priests to stay close to their bishop. The bishop’s “neighboring” neighbor is the priest, and the commandment to love your neighbor as yourself begins, for us bishops, precisely with our priests. The document is very good and thoroughly specifies the meaning of chapter VIII of Amoris laetitia. There are no further interpretations. And I am confident that it will do much good. May the Lord reward this effort of pastoral charity. And it is precisely pastoral charity that drives us to go out to meet the strayed, and, once they are found, to initiate a path of acceptance, discernment and reinstatement in the ecclesial community. We know this is tiring, it is “hand-to-hand” pastoral care which cannot be fully addressed with programmatic, organizational or legal measures, even if these are also necessary. It simply entails accepting, accompanying, discerning, reinstating. Out of these four pastoral attitudes the least refined and practised is discernment; and I deem it urgent to include training in personal and community discernment in our Seminaries and Presbyteries. Finally, I would like to recall that Amoris laetitia resulted from the work and prayers of the whole Church, with the mediation of two Synods and the Pope. For this reason, I recommend a full catechesis of the Exhortation, which will, most certainly, contribute towards the growth, consolidation and holiness of the family. Once again, thank you for your work and let me encourage you to carry on studying and teaching Amoris laetitia in the different communities of the dioceses. Please, do not forget to pray and to remind others to pray for me. May Jesus bless you and may the Holy Virgin take care of you. Fraternally, FRANCIS http://www.cyberteologia.it/2016/09...mentation-of-chapter-viii-of-amoris-laetitia/
Interesting this would come out now when Cardinal Burke is preparing a Formal Correction on Pope Francis teaching.
It was a news programme where they gave a roundup of what had been happening in Rome during the week. The part I referred to was a press conference about the World Meeting of Families. The Archbishop spoke in, I think, Italian and EWTN gave an English translation of what he said but they only showed snippets of the press conference. This report on Vatican Radio's website gives more detail of the occasion. While the Archbishop definitely spoke about going out to the peripheries in the answer covered by EWTN, that question and answer are not included on Vatican Radio's report: http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/201...n_world_meeting_of_families_presented/1302212 Archbishop Martin has, indeed, been very strong against corruption and paedophilia in the Church. I always had the impression that he is a faithful son of the Church, neither ultra traditional nor a modernist. I was heartened by his decision to withdraw the Dublin seminarians from Maynooth and have them finish their formation in Rome after one of them had been advertising himself on the gay dating website. My sense of relief was short lived when I heard that Rome's reputation is as bad if not worse than Maynooth's and that, rather than being dismissed from seminary, the student was sent to Rome along with the other seminarians. We have had enough examples of what Pope Francis means when he talks about reaching out to the peripheries and it isn't taking the Gospel message to the ends of the earth. The thought of our version of what Pope Francis calls forgotten greats and our he's who used to be she's but are now he's with their "spouses" being paraded as paragons is more than I could stomach.
Chilean President Michelle BacheletGovernment of Chile Claire ChretienFollow Claire NEWSABORTION, CATHOLIC CHURCH, POLITICS - WORLDFri Aug 25, 2017 - 1:31 pm EST Chile’s pro-abortion, pro-LGBT socialist president to speak at Vatican conference Abortion , Catholic , Chile , Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo , Michelle Bachelet , Planned Parenthood , Pontifical Academy Of Sciences , Population Control , Same-Sex 'Marriage' August 25, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – Chile's socialist president who just helped legalize abortion and is now pushing for same-sex "marriage" will speak at a Vatican conference on climate change and population control in November. President Michelle Bachelet, who originally introduced the pro-abortion law that the country's high court just ruled is constitutional, will speak at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences' "Health of People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibility: Climate Change, Air Pollution and Health" conference on November 2. The same day Chile's high court ruled in favor of the abortion law, Bachelet promisedto formally introduce legislation to make marriage an institution between any "two people, of the same or different sex." Bachelet's talk is called "Global Leadership Session I: Call to Action." More here: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/p...t-president-of-chile-to-speak-at-vatican-on-g
Monsignor Pierangelo SequeriYouTube Dorothy Cummings McLeanFollow Dorothy NEWSCATHOLIC CHURCHMon Aug 28, 2017 - 9:09 am EST Humanae Vitae critics appointed to Pontifical Academy for Life Alain Thomasset , Amoris Laetitia , Anne-Marie Pelletier , Carlo Casalone , Catholic ,Humanae Vitae , Humberto Yanez , Maurizio Chiodi , Pierangelo Sequeri , Pontifical Academy For Life , Pope Francis , Reinhard Marx , Theology Of The Body ROME, Italy, August 28, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — At least five of the 28 new members of the Pontifical Academy for Life are critical of Catholic doctrines reaffirmed in Humanae Vitae. Reporting for the National Catholic Register, journalist Ed Pentin identified the dissenters as Monsignor Pierangelo Sequeri; Anne-Marie Pelletier; Father Alain Thomasset, SJ; Father Maurizio Chiodi; and Father Humberto Miguel Yanez, SJ. A potential sixth, Father Carlo Casalone, SJ, has also been appointed to the Academy. A specialist in aesthetic theology and musicology, Sequeri was appointed president of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family by Pope Francis. As president, he is automatically on the board of the Academy for Life. Sequeri contributed an introduction to the Italian edition of “Amoris Laetitia: A Turning Point of Moral Theology” in which scholars argue that Amoris Laetitia “represents a paradigm shift for all moral theology and especially in interpreting Humanae Vitae,” wrote Pentin. Pentin also reported that Sequeri was allegedly one of the organizers of the so-called “Secret Synod,” or “Study Day on Pastoral Practice Concerning Marriage and the Family” held May 15, 2015, during the Family Synod. The “Secret Synod” was attended by about 50 people invited by Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Cardinal Markus Büchel and Archbishop Georges Pontier. The guests were chiefly theologians and reporters. The topics raised included how the Church could “better welcome” those in stable same-sex relationships, the importance of the human sex drive, the replacement of “the theology of the body” with a “theology of love,” and the immorality of refusing communion to the divorced-and-remarried. Pelletier, Thomasset, and Yanez also participated in the “Secret Synod.” Continue here: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/humanae-vitae-critics-appointed-to-pontifical-academy-for-life
"Thomasset, a professor at the Jesuit Centre Sèvres in Paris, spoke for 20 minutes on “taking into account the history and biographical developments in the moral and pastoral life of the family.” He stated that “the interpretation of the doctrine of acts called ‘intrinsically evil’ seems to me to be one of the fundamental sources of the present difficulties in the pastoral care of families, since it underlies to a great extent the condemnation of artificial contraception, of the sexual acts of the divorced-and-remarried and of homosexual couples, including stable ones. This appears to many as incomprehensible and seems pastorally counterproductive.” Thomasset also told the participants that a “homosexual relationship lived in stability and fidelity can be a path of holiness.” https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/humanae-vitae-critics-appointed-to-pontifical-academy-for-life
The dissenters are worldly in their thinking and this is not of Christ. Who is at the centre of your marriage - the Pill or Jesus Christ? Christ is Lord, he is risen, Allelulia. The Lordship of Jesus Christ extends to every area of our lives including our fertility. We surrender even our fertility to God through natural means in harmony with the will of God. We surrender everything to Christ including our body and soul. Contracepting couples' usurp the authority due to God alone -- it is such a serious sin to betray the Lord in this way. contraception is a form of idolatry the worship of the sexual act divorced from the will of God. It is a lie from the bowels of hell. It is not an easy teaching but the road is narrow. The sacrament of reconciliation is so powerful because we ask Divine Pardon for our sins and trust in His mercy and grace.
It is not an easy teaching but it is not a hard one either - it definitely was not a hard one for the last few thousand years since the beginning of the world. Indeed, the vast majority of human cultures have regarded sexuality always as a blessing of God and Nature, to be taken seriously and used prudently. We are no different than our ancestors, so it wasn't harder for them than it is for us. If anything, it is much easier for us to live without contraception than it was for them, as we live in a world that in most places no longer has the hardships that used to exist, and we are now able to know what our fertility status is and plan accordingly (they didn't know that before).
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=32479 Vatican doctrinal congregation no longer cautions dissident theologians Catholic World News August 28, 2017 The Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) has been not taken disciplinary action against dissident theologians since the election of Pope Francis, the National Catholic Reporter remarks. The Reporter contacted several theologians whose work had come under scrutiny by the Vatican’s doctrinal congregation in the past. None had heard from the CDF since Pope Francis was elected in March 2013. At least one priest who was disciplined by the CDF in the past, the Irish Father Tony Flannery, revealed that he had expected further disciplinary action after he defied a Vatican order by celebrating Mass despite his suspension from ministry. No steps have been taken, however, he said; he has not heard from Rome. References: Silence of Vatican's doctrinal congregation notable under Francis (National Catholic Reporter)
garabandal, What you say is clear, simple, true, but difficult in the midst of a rebellious culture. It takes a boatload of grace and our human cooperation to be faithful; however, the Lord will provide. What we hear from the neo-modernists is a false mercy which negates truth in order to set the bar lower. It is a ploy of satan. Lord have mercy! Safe in the Barque of Peter!
The snowball is really roaring down the mountain now. Faster and faster. The crash when it comes will be terrible. The Bride of Christ is being scourged and torn and mocked and betrayed. Every new story is a blow upon a bruise. This is chastisement. This is what it looks like. O Mary Refuge of sinners help us!!
I'll say again!! Circa 1935, The Lord told St Faustina to tell US to say/think: Jesus, I trust in You! ...... Not trust in Me & those People in Rome or your Diocese HQ or local politicians but Trust in Him ... Period!!! He knew what was to come and gave us VERY simple instructions ... Get On It!! GOD SAVE ALL HERE!!
Blizzard, Now I understand. First, we choose not to teach the fullness of the Faith. Second, when uncatechized Catholics subsequently find it all incomprehensible, we, third, provide a pastorally productive band-aid: declare that any sin lived in stability and fidelity can be a path of holiness. I'm so glad that everything is resolved and that intrinsically evil acts (so wonderfully elucidated by a saint- John Paul II) can now be swept under the rug and/or white-washed. Matthew 23:27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within they are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness. 28 So you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
I think perhaps I understand where Pope Francis and his comrades are coming from. I think it is basically is that we all of us share a common humanity and common goals for the well being of mankind, however we express them and however we seek to attain them, no matter if we are believer or unbeliever and whatever our poltical, religious , national , social or cultural background. In order to realise these universal goals we must walk a path of common accompaniment , disregarding differences in order to attain these Universalist ends. All of this does not sound unfamiliar to me. I believe these tenets are expressed in Freemasonary and organisations like , for instance the United Nations. http://www.theeducator.ca/philosophy/freemasonry-aims-objectives/ 'The genius of Masonry is friendship! Perhaps that may sound too simple but it is not simple in the sense of easy achievement or limited application. It is simple only in the sense that all fundamental things are simple. It is also fundamental that we regard Freemasonry and Masonic gatherings as occasions when chosen men, with ideas similar to ours, are brought together in conscious fellowship. 'Masonary = Friendship Pope Francis = Accompaniment https://onepeterfive.com/freemasons-love-pope-francis/
Evil has to mask itself behind what everyone sees as a good. The Mason's have their family friendly circuses and children's hospitals that are free services for many children and of-course their scooters in parades all over. Who could not love them for that? These nice old men seemingly pro-family, pro-enjoyment for the family? A perfect setting con-cocked by their grand-master, Satan, as cover for their true intent, which is the destruction of God's people through diabolical attacks upon his Church. Freemasonry has brought us every "ism" since its formation. Modernnism, communism, socialism, feminism, etc.... and they still hide behind the veil of it all.
What is complicated in freemasonry is that there is a freemasonry within freemasonry. The visible and invisible freemasonry. Not everyone can be invited to invisible Freemasonry. They investigate the life of the person and according to some criteria choose some who have a vocation to serve the Lucifer. Those who do not meet the requirements remain in visible freemasonry, doing charitable works (they are the useful idiots and for the most part they are sincere Christians). Only the invisible freemasonry is related to rituals of magic and in the last degree direct contact with Lucifer.
Today is the Beheading of John the Baptist . . .would he be allowed to preach in the Catholic Church today? Probably not, he wasn't politically correct :-(
https://gloria.tv/article/7Yjd7AXvLrSx3v4rEFeogddJ3 Francis Under Fire His campaign for an unlimited mass-immigration has put Pope Francis under fire in Italy. Referring to last Sunday's scanty participation in Francis' Angelus, the Italian voxnews.info writes, "The faithful run away from Bergoglio". It points out that Francis preaches "a world without walls" while the Italian state has to guarantee around him a strict and very expensive security with policemen, snipers and undercover agents. The article concludes, "Francis preaches hospitality but he lets us live with the consequences."
