{"id":480,"date":"2015-03-12T18:42:55","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T18:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/?p=480"},"modified":"2015-03-12T18:51:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T18:51:06","slug":"francis-friend-oscar-new-stories-of-false-hope-in-the-time-of-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=480","title":{"rendered":"Francis’ Friend Oscar: New Stories of False Hope in the Time of Mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"francis<\/a><\/p>\n

Why does this kind of thing just keep happening and happening<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

The Pope considers the law on priestly celibacy ‘archaic’ and ‘not part of the doctrine of the Church’, according to the confidante.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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?\u00a0 I don’t.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Taking Holy Communion while in a state of sin is considered an even graver sin.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Can you believe a secular paper just got something right about Catholicism?<\/p>\n

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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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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’.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Eh! Is the Pope Catholic? Eh!\u00a0 What planet is this?<\/p>\n

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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.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I get all emotional too now that I know the Pope, like God himself, can change any Church doctrine he wants.\u00a0 How wonderful, she must think, to have a pope today that can help people like me go to Heaven!<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Increasingly uncomfortable?\u00a0 That’s a stretch.\u00a0 Can you think of a better time in history NOT to get married?<\/p>\n

If unmarried people who live together cared about going to Holy Communion they would separate.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 If it was wrong before it can’t be right now.\u00a0 Do they really think Pope Francis can change right and wrong?\u00a0 If they were right all along, what do they care what the Church says?<\/p>\n

Remarried people really assume they can go to Heaven regardless.\u00a0 They are just happy the Church may agree now with what they already thought.\u00a0 It’s a hope, a false hope, and it’s being spread one way or another by Pope Francis himself.<\/p>\n

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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 …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}