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German Archbishop Expects the German Bishops to Allow Soon Communion for the “Remarried”

Just after the news about Pope Francis’ support of more liberalizing approaches to the “remarried” question in Argentina and in Rome, news is now coming to us from Germany that other elements of the Catholic Church are moving in the same direction. Stephan Burger, Archbishop of Freiburg, Germany, has just announced that he expects the German Bishops’ Conference soon to allow Communion for the “remarried” throughout Germany. Katholisch.de, the official website of the German Bishops’ Conference reports on this same news today:

Stephan Burger, the Archbishop of Freiburg, expects a document of the German Bishops concerning marriage and the family and concerning the Church’s dealing with the remarried divorcees. The Bishops’ Conference has seen it as its task to pick up on Pope Francis’ recent explanations and to make them more concrete, said Burger to the Diocesan newspaper Konradsblatt in Karlsruhe.

More importantly, moreover, Burger says that Pope Francis himself wants to allow Communion for the “remarried,” as Katholisch.de also reports:

An essential point of the papal document concerning marriage and the family (Amoris Laetitia) is, in the eyes of Burger, that Francis himself wants to make free the path for the remarried to receive Holy Communion. This is, in individual cases, possible after an ‘in-depth examination and formation of conscience and after a pastoral accompaniment.’ The Archbishop stressed that ‘life is too complicated in order to have at hand a clear and unequivocal solution for everybody and everything.’

Katholisch.de rightly reminds its readers that the Diocese of Freiburg has already allowed, “for several years now, the giving out of Communion to remarried divorcees and to admit them to the Sacrament of Penance in individual cases.” However, in 1993, the Vatican had condemned a similar decision made by the German Dioceses of Freiburg, Rottenburg-Stuttgart and Mainz.

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Freiburg Cathedral

Nonetheless, since the papacy of Pope Francis, things have changed. It is to be expected that Archbishop Burger is correct and that the German Bishops’ Conference will soon publish its own guidelines which will be most probably similar to the laxer standards of some of the Argentine bishops with regard to the question of Communion for the “remarried.” The Francis Revolution keeps showing its disastrous effects. Another example of just how damaging the effects of this papacy actually are can be seen in a report by the Italian journalist Marco Tosatti. He reports today that the Belgian Bishop Johan Bonny – appointed by Pope Francis himself – has now proposed in the form of an indirect question “whether it would not be possible to establish a new rite to celebrate homosexual unions as well as cohabiting couples.”

37 thoughts on “German Archbishop Expects the German Bishops to Allow Soon Communion for the “Remarried””

  1. Oh, of course. What a surprise. Allow me to swoon in dumbfounded shock and astonishment that this eventuality—the one that so many in the Catholic media told us could NEVER happen—is about to come to pass.

    (sarcasm off)

    In a way, this strategy Francis has employed is nothing short of brilliant. He gets what he has insinuated he has wanted all along—Communion for the divorced and remarried—while still maintaining enough plausible deniability for him to turn around when confronted on the matter and say “Well, I didn’t officially change Church teaching and discipline. It’s those dastardly Germans—they’re the ones to blame! Not me!” This, in turn, allows the head-in-the-sand-the-Pope-is-the-Pope-so-he-can-never-ever-ever-EVER-do-anything-bad-and-if-he-does-it-must-suddenly-be-good crowd to triumphantly sneer at those of us who PREDICTED THIS WHOLE SCENARIO and say “Oh, poor Pope Francis! If only the German bishops would interpret AL the way it is meant to be interpreted! We just need to invent yet another “hermeneutic” through which to read Francis’s papacy, but you see, you idiot Trads and borderline-Schismatics, the Pope is perfectly orthodox and in line with Church teaching. So stop your b****ing and shut up! Because if you say dare to question the prudence of this pontiff’s actions, well, then you are an agent of Satan himself!”

    You cannot make this sort of thing up. Three years ago, if you would have told me that I would suddenly be considered an enemy of the Church for simply pointing out how Francis has deviated oh-so-frequently from received Tradition, I would have said you were insane. I fear the worship of Christ and respect for His Vicar has been entirely inverted; now, it seems as if so many worship the Vicar while respecting Christ, except, of course, when Christ’s teachings go against those of the Vicar.

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  2. They (Jorge and friends) attack the unity of faith and marriage THROUGH the Holy Eucharist!

    “He reports today that the Belgian Bishop Johan Bonny – appointed by Pope Francis himself – has now proposed in the form of an indirect question “whether it would not be possible to establish a new rite to celebrate homosexual unions as well as cohabiting couples.”

    This is where we are heading–homosexual union blessing in the Catholic Church.

    “And they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.” – Jeremiah 32:34

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    • “Heth. Jerusalem hath grievously sinned, therefore is she become
      unstable: all that honoured her have despised her, because they have
      seen her shame: but she sighed and turned backward. Teth. Her filthiness is on her feet, and she hath not remembered her
      end: she is wonderfully cast down, not having a comforter: behold, O
      Lord, my affliction, because the enemy is lifted up. Jod. The enemy hath put out his hand to all her desirable things: for
      she hath seen the Gentiles enter into her sanctuary, of whom thou gavest
      commandment that they should not enter into thy church.”- Lamentations 1:8-10

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      • “But the court, which is without the temple, cast out, and measure it not: because it is given unto the Gentiles, and the holy city they shall tread under foot two and forty months.” Apocalypse 11:2

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    • It’s what “they” have always wanted!
      It has never really been about Communion for the divorced and remarriage.
      That was a smoke screen, in my opinion.

      To destroy the soul, one must destroy the fabric of the flesh and all its God given sensibilities.
      That is what Satan has done with many of his accomplices within the Church.

      There is little we can do about this, i am afraid. Our Lord will not be mocked. Don’t worry, just pray!

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  3. “life is too complicated in order to have at hand a clear and unequivocal solution for everybody and everything.”
    People will find that life would be much less complicated if they were to concern themselves with only four things: death, judgment, heaven, and hell. We’re all going to die. We’re all going to be judged. We’re all going to spend eternity in either heaven or hell. When you consider that, life’s complications seem so small. If a Catholic is having sex with someone when one of them is actually married to another, they are fornicating. A person cannot receive communion when they’re doing that, or else they commit a sacrilege in addition to their adultery. Choosing hell in the next life because one is unwilling to stop having sex until their marriage is blessed, if it can be blessed, is a foolish thing to do. It’s like eating a bunch of bologna from the refrigerator even though a master chef is grilling you a steak because you’re just too impatient to wait for better things that are to come.

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  4. Has anyone seen answers for these two documents??

    CONCERNING THE RECEPTION OF HOLY COMMUNION BY DIVORCED AND REMARRIED MEMBERS OF THE FAITHFUL
    Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, nn. 5; 4.3??

    5. “At the same time it confirms and indicates the reasons for the constant and universal practice, “founded on sacred Scripture, of not admitting the divorced and remarried to holy communion.” The structure of the exhortation and the tenor of its words give clearly to understand that this practice, which is presented as “BINDING, CANNOT BE MODIFIED BECAUSE OF DIFFERENT SITUATIONS.”

    4.3 “This norm is not at all a punishment or a discrimination against the divorced and remarried, but rather expresses an objective situation that of itself RENDERS IMPOSSIBLE the reception of holy communion.”

    APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION
    RECONCILIATION AND PENANCE (RP 34.2)

    RP 34.2 “Basing herself on these two complementary principles [“compassion and mercy” being the first, and “truth and consistency” being the other], the church CAN ONLY invite her children who find themselves in these painful situations to approach the divine mercy by other ways, NOT HOWEVER through the sacraments of penance and the Eucharist until such time as they have attained the required dispositions.”

    If the Holy Spirit was Teaching in these two documents, especially, RP 34.2, is He Teaching something different, or do they align, in AL? Does AL quote and reference either of these two Teachings???

    Jubilee blessings!

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  5. “Page 117, of the pope’s book, On Heaven and Earth, in regards to same-sex unions
    “If there is a union of a PRIVATE NATURE, THERE IS NEITHER A THIRD PARTY NOR IS SOCIETY AFFECTED. Now, if this union is given the category of marriage and they are given adoption rights, there could be children affected. Every person needs a male father and female mother that can help them shape their identity. – Jorge Mario Bergoglio
    Approval of same-sex sexual unions is approval of same-sex sexual acts.
    Prior to being elected pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, by condoning same-sex sexual acts in relationships that he referred to as private, did not include children, and were not called marriage, and thus denying that God Is The Author of Love, of Life, and of Marriage, denied The Divinity of The Blessed Trinity.”

    The Church’s ultimate trial

    675 Before Christ’s second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers.574 The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth575 will unveil the “mystery of iniquity” in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh.576

    http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p1s2c2a7.htm

    To deny The Divinity of The Ordered Communion of Perfect Love, The Most Holy and Undivided Blessed Trinity, and render onto Caesar what belongs to God, is to glorify man in place of God, and His Messiah Come in The Flesh, Jesus The Christ, is that great deception the price of which is apostasy.

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  6. Nothing new. Move on. The devil’s hurricane has made landfall in the Vatican and is quickly moving into other areas causing extensive damage. But the interesting thing is: few recognize it. Perhaps sin has blinded them.

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    • This is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. We all know it. Hell, the Vatican knows it. Only those who are willfully blind remain oblivious.

      Morality is about to become, for all practical purposes, a matter of location, where what has always been a mortal sin in the universal Church will remain so in one diocese/parish, but in the neighboring diocese/parish will suddenly become venial at best and “no big deal” at worst, all at the discretion of whoever the bishop/pastor happens to be at the time.

      The inevitable result, of course, will be indignation and anger on behalf of those who are objectively in mortal sin yet allowed to receive Holy Communion in their home diocese/parish should they happen to try to receive Communion in a diocese/parish that refuses to try to change the Truth. And, as we all know, it is the dissidents and liberals, often with the most cash to donate to the diocese/parish, who complain and protest the loudest, and, as money most certainly talks, will be the ones to pressure bishops and pastors with some quid pro quo (e.g., “Well, Father, I hear your church desperately needs a new roof. My second wife and I just might be able to help you out with that . . . provided you are willing to look the other way about the fact that I never received an annulment for my first marriage and use your powers of discernment in the ‘internal forum’ to let us receive Communion. Otherwise . . . good luck when spring gets here and it rains almost every day”).

      Laicized simony is on its way, ladies and gentlemen.

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  7. Everyone should get and read Randy Engel’s book “THE RITE OF SODOMY.” This is where the Church is going. Heck, she may as well rename the book in the next updated edition “THE SACRAMENT OF SODOMY.”

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