Why does this kind of thing just keep happening and happening?
A childhood friend of Pope Francis has claimed that he intends to overturn the centuries-old ban on Catholic priests from getting married and that he told a divorcee ‘living in sin’ that she could receive Holy Communion.
The Pope considers the law on priestly celibacy ‘archaic’ and ‘not part of the doctrine of the Church’, according to the confidante.
The friend also claimed the Argentinian-born pope also vowed to reform another Catholic rule which bars divorced people in new relationships from taking the Holy Communion, MailOnline can reveal.
According to Oscar Crespo, Pope Francis said that changing the Catholic law which bars civil divorcees from taking a full part in church life is the ‘number one priority’ of his papacy.
Do you think Pope Francis will get on the phone with old friend Oscar now and ask him not to tell such lies about him? I don’t.
Mr Crespo said that the Pope, 78, also sent a message to a divorced woman ‘living in sin’ with a new partner assuring her that she was free to confess and receive the Eucharist.
The Catholic church doesn’t recognise divorce, considering that anyone who remarries or starts a sexual relationship with another person other than the one they first married is committing adultery.
Taking Holy Communion while in a state of sin is considered an even graver sin.
Can you believe a secular paper just got something right about Catholicism?
Argentinian teacher Claudia Garcia Larumbe had sent a message to the Pope via Mr Crespo asking if she really was excluded from confessing or taking communion after moving in with her new partner.
After Mr Crespo reminded the Pope that church law ‘forbids’ divorcees in new relationships from partaking in the holy sacraments, Francis said: ‘Just tell her the Pope said that she can’.
Eh! Is the Pope Catholic? Eh! What planet is this?
Ms Larumbe, 39, told MailOnline she was ‘speechless and emotional’ after receiving the Holy Father’s personal dispensation to partake in the key Catholic sacraments.
I get all emotional too now that I know the Pope, like God himself, can change any Church doctrine he wants. How wonderful, she must think, to have a pope today that can help people like me go to Heaven!
The revelations will bring fresh hope to millions of civilly divorced churchgoers, as well as thousands of clergymen who are increasingly uncomfortable about their lifetime celibacy vows.
Increasingly uncomfortable? That’s a stretch. Can you think of a better time in history NOT to get married?
If unmarried people who live together cared about going to Holy Communion they would separate. The only reason some might care about Communion would be if they believed they could go to Heaven now when before they couldn’t; but very few couples must be like that. If it was wrong before it can’t be right now. Do they really think Pope Francis can change right and wrong? If they were right all along, what do they care what the Church says?
Remarried people really assume they can go to Heaven regardless. They are just happy the Church may agree now with what they already thought. It’s a hope, a false hope, and it’s being spread one way or another by Pope Francis himself.
Pretty awful.
This is not just a sin of sacrilege against the Holy Sacrament of the Altar, it is also an Anti-Gospel: it says that Christ did not have to come down to earth, taking on our humanity, taking on our sin, and dying on the Holy Cross in our place so that we might be restored to friendship with GOD.
And not just Anti-Gospel, but Anti-Christ as well! Shame, Cardinal Bergoglio, SHAME!
A Jesuit Communist. But then this is exactly what went wrong with Vatican II. Pope John the XXIII had the power to call a council, of course, but he erred gravely when he made peace with Moscow so that the Russia clergy (infiltrated and controlled by Soviet State tyranny) could attend the Council. This required the Church to refrain from speaking against Communism. According to our Faith, silence in the fact of sin is a sin itself.
So Cardinal Bergoglio is a product of the Pope John XXIII’s capitulance to the Soviet Union, and in direct contradiction to the message of Fatima as well as the Command from GOD that the Pope, together with all the Bishops of the World, must consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary that the enemies of Christ would be defeated and so that the Era of Peace could begin because of the power intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the Co-Mediatrix of all graces.
Let all the Faithful beware, eh?